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Barmymoo:
What? I just answered some multiple choice questions about what you should do if you run over a child or see a policeman waving you over, clicked on a picture when I saw DANGER APPROACHING and then drove a guy around for half an hour without killing anyone, and now I am licensed to drive anywhere at any time with anyone in the car, and in about two weeks my insurance will drop in price (hilariously, I have not driven even a metre since I got my licence and am far more likely to kill someone now than I ever was at 17).

How can it be that complicated to get a licence? What do they achieve by making you spend two years trying to get one?

Lunchbox:
I think it takes like 5 years to get a full licence here. Unless you're over 25 in which case it is fewer years, but it is still years.

EDIT:
Here it is

Pass the Driver Knowledge Test (DKT) – this gets you a learner licence.
Hold your learner licence at least 12 months for drivers under the age of 25. Complete 120 hours minimum driving practice (log book records the driving experience).
Pass the Driving Test – progress to a Provisional Licence – stage 1 (P1 or ‘red’ Ps).
Hold your P1 licence for a minimum of 12 months.
Pass the Hazard Perception Test – progress to Provisional Licence – stage 2 (P2 or ‘green’ Ps).
Hold your P2 licence for a minimum of 24 months.
Pass the Driver Qualification Test (DQT) – progress to a full licence.

tania:
yeah the idea is that there are restrictions for each level so that you basically can't get a full license until you have had at least 2-3 years of driving experience. the main problem with being stuck with anything that isn't a full license (in ontario, anyway, i'm assuming it's the same here on the west coast) is that you only have a few years before it expires, at which point you have to start the entire process all over again. right from the beginning. this is all well and good if you own a car and you drive it every day and have lots of time to practice but if you are like me and you don't own or want a car and you have basically no driving experience but you still want a license because being legally allowed to drive really makes life easier in a lot of ways, it becomes a lot more complicated and annoying. like, at this point i could technically go test for the full license at any time except i haven't driven a car at all since august and i don't know the road laws here and i don't have a car that i can drive around to figure all that out so there's a really good chance i'll end up failing and it'll just end up being a huge waste of money and i already have a god damn license so i don't understand why it's going to expire and it's just so fucking dumb. driving is the worst.

may, the idea is that they want to make the roads safer by only letting experienced drivers drive on their own. the irony is that vancouver has easily some of the absolute worst drivers i have ever seen in my life. nearly every time i have gone out for a run i have been nearly hit by someone who didn't look at all before they pulled out or made a turn... actually, if british columbia's standards are that low maybe i could actually take the test without having driven in months and still be okay. hmmm.

Spluff:

--- Quote from: Lunchbox on 25 Nov 2010, 14:02 ---Complete 120 hours minimum driving practice (log book records the driving experience).
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Lunchbox:
Me too, I have been trying to teach my boyfriend but it just keeps going forever and it seems like there will always be 100 hours left to go

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