daz6215 wrote:Here is a quote from DT 1
1.48 EXTENDED TEST (ASSESSMENT OF FAULTS)
The normal methods of assessment should be applied. However, examiners are
reminded that most candidates are likely to have had considerable driving experience,
prior to their mandatory disqualification. Because of this, their method and standard of
driving will probably be quite different to that of the majority of learner drivers. For
example, their ability to take advantage of gaps in the traffic to emerge safely from
junctions is likely to be to a much higher standard than that of the less experienced
driver. They should not be penalised for this
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... cedure.pdf
How - odd !
Presumably if they've been disqualified, it has been for a particularly serious misjudgement, a failure to drive at the level of a normal competent driver: Yet they are given 'benefit of the doubt' in their judgement of what constitutes safe driving! Another example of our society's assumption that driving is a right rather than an earned priviledge.
driverpete wrote:Au contraire! A learner pulling out into traffic will generally need a bigger gap and will in all probability not get up to speed as briskly as an experienced driver. Examiners are generally aware of this and are thus less likely to feel the need to use the dual controls to prevent a dangerous error occurring.
trashbat wrote:I think you're reading far too much into it. It's just an acknowledgement that experienced drivers will behave quite differently, to avoid a false requirement of them having to ape the style of under-confident novices.
The judgement on safety is the examiner's.
Ancient wrote:Experienced drivers?
"1.47 THE EXTENDED TEST
Drivers convicted of certain dangerous driving offences are required to take a
mandatory extended driving test following a period of disqualification; these will be identified on the DL34. "
Whose judgement can be trusted?
I don't think I am reading too much into it at all.
Ancient wrote:trashbat wrote:I think you're reading far too much into it. It's just an acknowledgement that experienced drivers will behave quite differently, to avoid a false requirement of them having to ape the style of under-confident novices.
The judgement on safety is the examiner's.
Experienced drivers?
"1.47 THE EXTENDED TEST
Drivers convicted of certain dangerous driving offences are required to take a
mandatory extended driving test following a period of disqualification; these will be identified on the DL34. "
Whose judgement can be trusted?
I don't think I am reading too much into it at all.
Gareth wrote:I think you are - for example if a driver has been banned for driving under the influence of drink or drugs, the requirement to take the extended test may have no reflection of the standard of their driving, (as opposed to the condition in which they were driving).
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