Because... They decided your license should carry a shot of your ugly mug (presumably to stop the instances of misuse of licesnses etc etc). Now, like the rest of us, yours Im sure gets uglier and uglier as the years roll by and the ability to recognise you now from a photo ten years ago is probably quite low, so....
...Nah, Im with you on this one actually. Its a money grabbing scheme. I know when they did my class six on my existing license they took three photos a few months apart and charged accordingly which seems a bit shit.
typical Jaffa. Head so far up your own arse you think the rest of NZ has arces of super city to play in. So you can travel for a whole day with out exceeding a 70 k zoen, bully for you. Any civilised person, that includes most Aucklanders btw know a bit more about the country they live in and are more aware of the issues of their fellow citizens. Was Plimmerton too hard for a poor little jaffa to google? The 70 k learners limit was BS when it was introduced and is still BS now. The pollies even realised having cars towing trailers at 20k below the limit is crap so too is forcing a motorcyclist to ride at 30 k below the limit especial when their width is so small as to encourage the following driver to look past them and even force their way past.
totally agree but the pollies wont see it that way and that is the bit that worries me. They will likely see it as a goods idea because they will spin doctor factious cost into it so they can charge more. IMO what you pay for a new photo and a simple eye test should include a virtual test drive or at least multi-choice. I like the virtual test drive as people tick the right answers in multi-choice but are likely to show there bad habits in a virtual test drive.
The one thing you can't change (not yet anyway) is the teenage brain. How many teenagers clearly think out the consequences of their actions? It's why you have 18yr olds signing up to the army, not 30yr olds.
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
I learnt to drive 35 years at 15, in a Morris 1300.
Tought myself to ride a motorbike at a mates as my parents hated them.
I'm teaching my son to drive in a 1970 VW....started off in the industrial estates and within a couple of weeks doing a bit of motorway and busy traffic.....40 HP, no power anything and manual......in fact I like it so much I leave the bike/van at home and drive the dub.....watch the world scurrying past to the next set of lights....
I taught him to ride a dirt bike....but I can't say I'm keen on him riding a road bike.
Cars now are too powerful, feel too safe and probably too cheap and cheap to run.
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
Not at all... You appear to be confusing having access to a keyboard and the internet with assuming you have a basic comprehension of the english language!
1. No where have I written that I outright agree with the limit, nor have I suggested that I have an 'issue' with people who chose to break it.
2. What I have stated about your first post is fact! Y.O.U D.O N.O.T N.E.E.D T.O R.I.D.E A M.O.T.O.R.C.Y.C.L.E I.N A 7.0.K.+ Z.O.N.E IT IS YOUR CHOICE. You have other choices, Bus, train, car, bicylce, etc etc) Whether these are practicle is not the question.
...Anyway, I didnt come in here to shoot fish in a barrel and since it aint increasing my post count, meh !
Back to the general question (from the original post) of whether the idea that someone should do time on two wheels before moving to a car. I simply dont see it making a difference.
My suggestion, and probably just as impracticle (spelling?) to implement is two have compulsory time at a morgue, hospital to see the results of road accidents... As per OAB's post above, this mean fack all to a teenager anyway...
I think so. Most people don't even seem to register that motorcycles exist, hence a lot of council roading and transport strategies. It will teach them the respect they should have for being allowed to control a 2 ton steel box where they can hurt other people instead of just themselves.
Load it onto learners???? Fuck .. they have a choice now .. whether you accept it or not ... I certainly made those choices when I was a learner rider .. and probably, from your POV, I made the wrong choices ...
I got my Thunderbird to 100mph when I was on a learner's licence (limit of 30mph from an admittedly poor memory ...)
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
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