Should we make people pass a cycling/motorcycle test before a drivingtest?

Originally Posted by daven1986

"in light of this, in order to be able to learn to drive you should
have to have ridden both a bike and motorbike for a certain amount of
time. this will raise peoples' awareness of what it is like to be on
those vehicles and should make them more aware of people using bikes /
motorbikes when they are driving.

also they need to make the driving test much harder. too many people
can drive at the moment, and many of them are retarded. if they made
the test harder they would reduce pollution, reduce congestion, reduce
road accidents, reduce road maintenance costs, improve peoples'
health, etc."



Finally some common sense here. And to think that the others are
capable of driving while DUI (Driving Under Idiocy).

If you enforced DUI as defined above America's roads would be suddenly
empty, and roads would be safe for cyclists.

Rule #1 is that there's NO TESTING IN AUTOMATIC CARS. Learn to drive
like in Europe or ride a bike.

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:36:30 -0700 (PDT), ComandanteBanana
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On Oct 12, 5:08 pm, "alan.holmes" wrote:
"BOFH" wrote in message

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"ComandanteBanana" wrote in message
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Case in point is how we should make people pass a cycling/motorcycle
test and if they fail that test they won't have a chance with the
driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a few cones with a
bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are bound to be cyclists
or pedestrians in real life.

Simply some people should not be driving!

uk.rec.driving

meet the obsessed, militant footsoldiers you share the road with.

I think you all need to talk this through

ALL car drivers shold have to ride a cycle for at least a year on the road
every day before getting a driving licence for a car.

Alan

And then if the survive they'll get points toward the Driver's
License. Makes sense.

It also makes sense that we adopt the British system by which the new
licensees get to bear the letter L for learner. And then if they never
learn they should bear the letter S for stupid.

A lot of them in America.

A lot of the trolls on uk.rec.cycling think that all motorists (except
them) should bear the letter "C" for "c**t". Not that they'll ever
admit it, of course.

On Oct 16, 11:09*am, Geoff Lane wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:36:30 -0700 (PDT), ComandanteBanana





wrote:
On Oct 12, 5:08 pm, "alan.holmes" wrote:
"BOFH" wrote in message

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"ComandanteBanana" wrote in message
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Case in point is how we should make people pass a cycling/motorcycle
test and if they fail that test they won't have a chance with the
driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a few cones with a
bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are bound to be cyclists
or pedestrians in real life.

Simply some people should not be driving!

uk.rec.driving

meet the obsessed, militant footsoldiers you share the road with.

I think you all need to talk this through

ALL car drivers shold have to ride a cycle for at least a year on the road
every day before getting a driving licence for a car.

Alan

And then if the survive they'll get points toward the Driver's
License. Makes sense.

It also makes sense that we adopt the British system by which the new
licensees get to bear the letter L for learner. And then if they never
learn they should bear the letter S for stupid.

A lot of them in America.

A lot of the trolls on uk.rec.cycling think that all motorists (except
them) should bear the letter "C" for "c**t". *Not that they'll ever
admit it, of course.- Hide quoted text -

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I think motorists are somewhere between down the path of evolution,
past the SUV (alpha monkey) but not fully evolved (civilized man on
bicycle).

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