ENGLISH DRIVING TESTS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 404, 13 December 1932, Page 2

ENGLISH DRIVING TESTS

Almost as regularly as the seasons come round the proposal that motor drivers should be tested is revived and discussed, says an editorial in the Motor. The latest controversy on this ever-recurring subject has revealed nothing that will have convinced anybody that it is a practicable proposition and much that definitely indicates that it is wholly impractcable. The main contention inspiring the rewed suggeston s that it would help n the prevention of accidents. On this point a gentleman well known in the insurance world has expressed the opinion that the view that the dangers to lfe and limb on the roads are due to a serious extent to the ease with' which driving licenses can be obtained is really a misapprehension. His experience leads him to believe that the importance which is being attached to this aspect of the question is overdon'e. No extension of the law with the ohject of imposing driving tests should be encouraged until there is more evidence than there is at present that it will have the desired effect. The fact is, of course, that it is practically impossible to devise any test which will thoroughly reveal the driving capacity of a motorist. The man who is habiutally reckless would be on his best behaviour, keeping his feeling well und>ar control during such a test.