Night Driving
Posted: Tue 21 September, 2010 Filed under: Driving, People, Thoughts 2 Comments »There’s a story on the BBC today about whether it would be better for new drivers to not be allowed to drive at night for a defined period once they’ve first passed their tests.
In some ways I do think this is a good idea – I’ve said before that I like the Australian method, with limitations on night driving, no alcohol level allowed at all, and a limitation on number of similar-aged people in the same car.
However, as the story says, it would also be a nightmare to administrate and enforce.
So perhaps a better idea would be to simply insist that the learner undergoes a certain number of lessons at night, and thus gets used to night-driving in as controlled a way as possible?
It’s absolutely shit as well for those of us (and I was one) who work nighttime hours.
Had I been subject to those restrictions after passing my test (some fourteen years ago), it would have been hardly worth the effort in the first place.
In Germany they require you to do night driving, motorway driving, driving in the rain etc as part of your lessons before you can pass.