A Driving Licence Cull - Post your suggestions

A Driving Licence Cull - Post your suggestions

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cptsideways

Original Poster:

13,535 posts

251 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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I think it's about time we had a mass licence cull here in the UK. Simple tiered rules if you break them you loose your licence, with the upper level of you loose it for good, have your car crushed & issued with a bus pass for life instead (I Think that's the best punishment)

If you fail to answer a highway code question correctly at the roadside after a stoppage you move up a tier of punishment.

The process will be instant & swift, with mobile car crushers waiting on standby.

Tier 1 = Licence revoked, retake test asap
Tier 2 = Licence revoked, banned for a period, retake test
Tier 3 = Licence revoked forever, car crushed, bus pass for life issued


So suggestions of offences for culling please, with the tier level I'll start

Forgetting to move to the left on an empty motorway Tier 1
Refusing to move to the left on an empty motorway Tier 2
Flashing lights in response to indication from others to move left after above Tier 3


Matt UK

17,649 posts

199 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Coming to a standstill at an empty roundabout, checking, waiting and then driving off into the path of a car which ha just entered the roundabout. Straight to Tier 3.

PHuzzy

2,747 posts

171 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Tier 3 - People who don't know the difference between lose and loose. wink

On a more serious note, anyone who flashes their lights after being overtaken is a permanent ban.

kambites

67,461 posts

220 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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PHuzzy said:
Tier 3 - People who don't know the difference between lose and loose. wink
yes A most heinous of driving crimes.

Going through a red light on/in any vehicle (unless getting out of the way of an emergency vehicle) should be an instant ban with no immediate retest allowed - probably tier 2 in your list. Accelerating at an amber light when it's perfectly safe to stop could be a tier-1.

Edited by kambites on Wednesday 23 April 09:47

austinsmirk

5,597 posts

122 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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i have no idea now, of the stopping distances. learnt them "parrot fashion" to pass my test.

since then, cars all have ABS and discs on all four wheels-------- so I suspect its less than what I was taught.

equally I'd imagine tyre technology has improved somewhat too.

am I a bad driver ???

WetPaint

1,212 posts

180 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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42mph. Everywhere. Bus pass.

Willy Nilly

12,511 posts

166 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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I'd make holding a driving license depend on how fat you are, too fat and you have to walk, thus loosing weight.

Also anti-car environmentalists would not be able to hold a UK drivers license or have anything delivered by road.

Riley Blue

20,915 posts

225 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Everyone who writes about a driving licence cull on PH - oh bugger, that's me gone....

PHuzzy

2,747 posts

171 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Willy Nilly said:
I'd make holding a driving license depend on how fat you are, too fat and you have to walk, thus loosing weight.

Also anti-car environmentalists would not be able to hold a UK drivers license or have anything delivered by road.
See post 2? You're gone. wink

GenePoolReject13

1,970 posts

188 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Unable to drive at or close to speed limit of the road when conditions allow should be tier 1/tier 2. Trying to join a dual carriageway or motorway at less than 55mph should be tier 3.

kambites

67,461 posts

220 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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austinsmirk said:
am I a bad driver ???
If you think ABS shortens stopping distances, possibly. hehe

You're right on principle though. The Highway code stopping distances are daft - IIRC they're around twice what many modern cars can achieve.

kambites

67,461 posts

220 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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I think using your horn and/or tailgating to indicate your displeasure at another drive should probably be a tier-1, too.

LuS1fer

41,085 posts

244 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Mis-spaced plates and mobile telephone use - Tier 3.
Smoking with children in the car - Tier 4...

kiethton

13,883 posts

179 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Tier 3 - Anybody who flashes their headlights in an enraged fashion after a perfectly safe overtake

kambites

67,461 posts

220 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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LuS1fer said:
Smoking with children in the car - Tier 4...
You can add "throwing cigarette ends out of the window" to that one too.

Pixelpeep

8,600 posts

141 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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kiethton said:
Tier 3 - Anybody who flashes their headlights in an enraged fashion after a perfectly safe overtake
+ 1 million

and.. People that drive on B roads really slowly round bends then speed up when it straightens out and visibility is good, ie, making perfect overtaking opportunities less perfect.

and.. People that do 50mph in a NSL B road, thinking they are safe, and then continue to do 50 when it changes to 30 through a village.

and.. people who like lane 3 but don't check their mirrors for minutes at a time

and.. people that are oblivious to their wing mirrors being folded in whilst driving. GRRRR

and.. people in modern mercs who sit at a set of lights at night with just their foot on the brake. Helpfully floodlighting the interior of my car in a 'nuclear red' and burning my retina because i happen to be behind them.

Tier 3, all of them, then straight to Hell.

gforceg

3,524 posts

178 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Any car with a "Powered by Fairy dust" sticker.

Out. Now.

HD Adam

5,143 posts

183 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Sitting close to the wheel and peering out the windscreen in a terrified manner. I mean, so close that if you put the sun visor down, it would hit you on the back of the head.

Tier 3




Monkeylegend

26,226 posts

230 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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All the know-it-alls and driving Gods Tier 4

so that's you lot culled already.

And anybody under the age of 61, that should free up the roads for me.

VictoriaYorks

974 posts

141 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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People who pull up in a queue of traffic leaving a big gap in front of them, then slowly creep forward once you've stopped behind them - why?