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Mark Revill-Johnson: Institute of Driver Educators President on the changes to the drivers licensing system · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So the full driver's licensed tests are gone berger Instead,
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  Speaker 1: under twenty fives will spend twelve months on a learner's license,
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  Speaker 1: zero tolerance for booze on your learners or restricted from
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven. Mark revel Johnson is president of the
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  Speaker 1: Institute of Driver Educators, joins us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Hey Mark, good morning, Rang.
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  Speaker 1: The government says this is going to save people about
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  Speaker 1: eighty bucks. Does that sound and marry up with what
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  Speaker 1: you're seeing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, roughly in the in terms of cost of going
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  Speaker 3: through the licensing process.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you think the roads will be more or
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  Speaker 2: less safe?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's going to change. It's certainly not
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  Speaker 3: going to improve matters. Let's take for example, this twelve
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  Speaker 3: months on the restricted phase and then no test. Let's
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  Speaker 3: say you passed your restricted and then toddled off on
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  Speaker 3: your Rowe went to one of the biggest cities in
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  Speaker 3: Europe or wherever, and you live on and use public
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  Speaker 3: transport for the year, come back and without having driven
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  Speaker 3: another kilometer since your restricted test, you get your full license.
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  Speaker 3: They talk about doing a number of hours before your
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  Speaker 3: learners or that can reduce the number of the time
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  Speaker 3: spent on your learner's license that way, I think that
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  Speaker 3: would be better or or at least hav an additional
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  Speaker 3: claws like that between between the restrictors and the.
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  Speaker 2: Full Do you think that the cost and the second
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  Speaker 2: practical taste for people is does put them off actually
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  Speaker 2: finishing the job.
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  Speaker 3: It's certainly a factor. I mean, let's say, say who
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  Speaker 3: likes doing tests the Yeah, some people are very nervous
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  Speaker 3: about it. As driving instructors, we see high anxiety rates
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  Speaker 3: and much students for going for a restricted or a
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  Speaker 3: full license test. That's that's a perfectly natural thing. The
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  Speaker 3: driving instructors, of course can help you to prepare for
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  Speaker 3: that so you feel more confident going into it. But
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  Speaker 3: it's uh, yeah, people don't like doing tests, and with
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  Speaker 3: a restricted license, if you're not driving at night, or
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  Speaker 3: you're not driving friends around, there isn't really a lot
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  Speaker 3: of incentive to go forward from there and to better
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  Speaker 3: yourself as a what's the thing?
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  Speaker 2: What is the one thing you think would actually make
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  Speaker 2: people be the drivers?
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  Speaker 3: More training and practical training is really the thing to do.
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  Speaker 3: It's you know, we can link theory, and theory has
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  Speaker 3: its place, but actually being behind the wheel with somebody
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  Speaker 3: who can watch those little the little nuances of what
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  Speaker 3: you're doing or not doing that can increase risk, that
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  Speaker 3: can be that can be invaluable, Like, for example, if
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  Speaker 3: you look at some of the failed failing, failing reasons
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  Speaker 3: on the full license test, there's an awful lot of
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  Speaker 3: people who are failing that test, and they're failing it
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  Speaker 3: for crash promoting type behaviors, so speeding and not stopping
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  Speaker 3: at stop signs and not not giving way properly quite important. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: important things in terms of risk, but you know this
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  Speaker 3: is when the driver is supposed to be on the
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  Speaker 3: best behavior.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Make appreciate that. Update Mark revel Johnson, president
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  Speaker 2: of the Institute of Driver Educators.
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