To think Driving should be taught in schools

[Bathsheba]

Is it just me or is there an increasing/significant number of posts in AIBU where "I can't drive" is either brought up at the beginning or added "by stealth" later on in the posting.

I think in a modern world, driving is SUCH an important life skill and SO required for life that it should be formally taught in schools so that, in time no-one would be able "not" to drive...if however they chose to, or used their money differently that would clearly be their choice rather than being hampered by an inability to do it...

Teaching driving at school? This must be bath's idea of a joke.

OP- don't be silly. We'll be expecting schools to teach family values, common sense and basic social behaviour next. Oh.

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"it's just a fact that taxis are prohibitively expensive "

You can buy a lot of taxi rides with the money it costs you to run a car for a year

Love cars, love driving, learned at the age of 12 in a field. The cost would be prohibitive to teach in schools, but, the best idea would be to include the Highway Code. This is not just for drivers, but educates people on how to WALK more safely, if they can reasonably expect to know the basic parametres of what to expect from other road users, and it MIGHT, JUST MIGHT stop all those ruddy cyclists from trying to knock my buggy over and tipping my daughter into the road on pedestrian crossings and also trying to kill the other cyclists on the cycle crossing alongside when they jump the red light. But no. A cold day in hell when that happens.

Agree with all the posters who say that it would be better off if much fewer people drove and there was much better public transport.

But it is a big disadvantage for some people - particularly those with low skills/few qualifications when they are looking for a job. Lots of lower end jobs either need a driving license or employers are more likely to choose someone with a license if they are choosing between two otherwise similar candidates. (Definitely a statistically significant factor in chances of finding a job when out of work - shows up in lots of studies, or at least it always used to)

Which of course means that those from poorer families are disadvantaged yet again because they are less likely to have been able to pay for driving lessons as a teenager.

So I don't know what the answer is - maybe to offer driving lessons as standard to anyone out of work more than 6 months? - but I doubt the Daily mail would like it

"It seems astonishingly backward that, in an educational climate moving away from exam pressure and towards continuous assessment, drivers are still passed or failed on the basis of one 40-minute exam."

It's silly isn't it, especially as a lot of people fail the exams due to nervousness.

I also remember being told that during my exam I should look over my shoulder one way, even though I had better visibility the other way. (Because of having such short legs that my seat had to be as far forward as possible) I think everyone knows that no one ever drives the way they did in their exam. I know my dad would fail his exam if an examiner sat in his car normally, but he is a safe, skilled driver, with years of experience. Even he admits this.