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Originally Posted by Acey
All I'm saying is that if we teach people how to drive correctly in the first place it may partially negate the need for frequent retesting down the road, and that will be because driving is something you do frequently. Maintenance of the good habits you learned in training.
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Yeah, but how do you bring that in? Do we start with the current batch of 16 year olds; with the end goal being safer roads by 2075? Or would you make everybody have to meet the new standards? That would be tougher; especially for somebody who has made career or life decisions based on driving being the norm for every adult.
With the latter, you'd still have to do mandatory driver retesting. So why not start with that, and then make the standards higher as we go? It would help a lot of things. My dad; who never actually took a test. Myself, who took my road test where I was required to do things that are illegal here in Calgary to pass. (I had to prove I could safely execute a U-turn at a traffic light.)