Is our driving test system making roads safer?

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We’re asking people around Cardiff whether they think the amount of driving lessons we currently have before being let out on the roads is making roads safer, or if there’s still plenty to be done.

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00:00There's probably not a lot of change in the actual test itself, but I think more worrying

00:06is the people who are youngsters who get on these electric bikes, hyped up bikes to 30-40

00:12miles an hour on bikes or scooters, have no idea of the highway code, not had a moment's

00:17teaching of it. I think that's what we've got to be more careful of.

00:20I'd say you could probably even do slightly more. If you look at countries like Japan,

00:24it takes probably two years. You've got to do a test in multiple conditions. We have

00:29to do, we do all of our tests in daylight, so you have people that have passed their

00:33tests and never driven in the dark before. I'd say that we probably could do actually

00:38a little bit more.

00:41One thing I actually spoke about with my parents one time, because they brought it up, was

00:46people should not re-do driving lessons, but maybe just re-do a test. Not every few years,

00:52maybe like five, six years. Just re-do a test. Because obviously the rules of the road are

00:57But some people aren't applying that to their driving.

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