Tighter rules for overseas drivers.

[ManDownUnder]

Dude, because it's not what you will or won't do, but what someone else will do wiht your information. One hand its true that if you haven't anything to hide and won't do anything wrong, you have little to fear by having your personal details saved in a computer system somewhere, but you don't know what sort of mischeif people can get up to with your information if they get hold of it.

So I should hide my number plate beacuse they can read it from space too? I'll stand up for what's mine - don;t worry about that. But the fact is they already have blood on file from every person born in NZ since 1950 or something (if not further back) and the most likely use of that information is to exclude me from wrong doing... so...

I know what you're saying but there's only so much paranoia to go round, so I gave mine away (that's a polite way of saying I don't give a shit)

[ManDownUnder]

HAHAHAHAHA
I'm a overseas driver

Bastard - next you'll tell me you're paying tax AND contributing to society ???

Damn - how will I ever develop a decent prejudice ???

LMAO!

[Fryin Finn]

Y'now they make profesional people with overseas qualifications sit the exams again here because our government donsen't trust their own country's qualification system. But all you need to do for a drivers license here is do a swap and go forth and kill. I guess figuring the road taxation system will pick them up in due course and add to the coffers before any damage done.

[Marmoot]

Bastard - next you'll tell me you're paying tax AND contributing to society ???

Damn - how will I ever develop a decent prejudice ???

LMAO!

C'mon.....surely out of the few tens of thousands of me's there will be a few hundred bad apples. Should be enough to develop prejudice
Afterall.....we all look alike

[ManDownUnder]

C'mon.....surely out of the few tens of thousands of me's there will be a few hundred bad apples. Should be enough to develop prejudice
Afterall.....we all look alike

Thanks God for that - I didn't want to stand out from the masses

[Marmoot]

Thanks God for that - I didn't want to stand out from the masses

You are Unique.....just like everybody else.....

[Street Gerbil]

Are you saying they are gonna seize or destroy my US driving license once I get a local one??? Screw them, I NEED MY US LICENSE. What if I'd have to drive in the US, huh? Besides this sort of seizure of a valid driving license has to be unlawful.

[Matt]

Y'now they make profesional people with overseas qualifications sit the exams again here because our government donsen't trust their own country's qualification system. But all you need to do for a drivers license here is do a swap and go forth and kill. I guess figuring the road taxation system will pick them up in due course and add to the coffers before any damage done.

Don't forget the scratch & sniff test paper you have to sit before you get your NZ licence though! oh and the $150 odd "conversion charge"...

Matt

[Insanity_rules]

Are you saying they are gonna seize or destroy my US driving license once I get a local one??? Screw them, I NEED MY US LICENSE. What if I'd have to drive in the US, huh? Besides this sort of seizure of a valid driving license has to be unlawful.

Good point, what are they going to do with the other licence? I think that kinda sux. I got a Cook Island Licence and I love pulling out to use as ID. People always do a double take.

[gixermike]

so what I really need to do is

1) Contact licence registration in uk and say I lost my licence...pay for duplicate keep both
2) Sit multiple guess NZ road code test
3) Give up one licence copy
4) Use 2nd copy when back in uk/europe, or when stopped for speeding...

sounds good to me. ;-)

[IronicCapers]

to drive or ride on the road its not a right and the cunts that do the damage and im not picking on asians but from a general point of view frm a English sorta person who are the prodominant society in New Zealand we have trouble remembering, pronouncing and knowing what is a last name of asians wheter they be japanese, chinese, cambodians or even indians, russians and africans. Biometric details offer greater reliability to identify people for who they are. So what if your an underage tat cant get into a club because you cant fake an ID to get in. Id rather be feel safer because i know that people who are dangerous drivers/riders are no on the road

[Marmoot]

Russians are Asians.
Africans are not Asians. They are.....uh.....africans..........

[IronicCapers]

I wasnt goruping them as asians i was just using nationalities that have differant languages and consequently names

[popelli]

Id rather be feel safer because i know that people who are dangerous drivers/riders are no on the road

True the driving standards of some ethnic minorities (who prior to the photo licences used to employ family licences that resided in the glove box for any member of the family to use) are well below what is expected but it is too easy to blame overseas people for what is essentially a NZ problem

The problem is generally the standard of driving overall in NZ is very very poor

Why blame other people when your own house is not in order.

As for not wanting to accepting overseas licences, it does work both ways, I have been able to use my NZ licence and travel around the US and Europe on it, hell if I had had to resit a test in those countries I would not have been amused.

[IronicCapers]

That is true im not essentially blaming overseas people but highlighting the culture barrier that can be exploited.

The solution can be taken a step forward with biometrics with a world wide database available.

We have some fairly good legislation but to be honest its the attitude on the road that will make the changes