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Terry Collins: AA Principal Policy Advisory discusses WOF extension proposal · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Everyone hates getting a warrant of fitness, don't you, So
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  Speaker 1: why is anyone going to say that spacing them out
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  Speaker 1: is not a good idea? Buy a new car. You
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  Speaker 1: can keep your first warrant of fitness for four years.
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  Speaker 1: Cars age between four and ten years that only need
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  Speaker 1: to take every two years. This is the government's proposals. Currently,
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  Speaker 1: all vehicles registered after the year two thousand you need
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  Speaker 1: a yearly WAFT. Terry Collins is Principal Policy advisor at
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  Speaker 1: AA and joins me this morning. Hey Terry, Yeah, good morning, right,
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  Speaker 1: any problems with this.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and we surveyed our members and unfortunately what they
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  Speaker 2: said to us is a third of a support, a
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  Speaker 2: third of pose, and a third are unsure. So it
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  Speaker 2: leaves us kind of wondering what having a look here,
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  Speaker 2: I know, and I think that's to do with perhaps
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  Speaker 2: some of those age or the length of time that
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  Speaker 2: the warrants men done. What we know is about forty
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  Speaker 2: percent of the vehicle's fail the warrant when it gets
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  Speaker 2: inspected for the first time. And I think with the
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  Speaker 2: shorter periods and this is the work that we have
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  Speaker 2: to do further work on is that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people go oh, I get more warrant on every six months.
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  Speaker 2: Looks like the times are going out the warrants next month.
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  Speaker 2: I wait till you get the warrant so I can
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  Speaker 2: extend my warrant period out with the good tires as
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  Speaker 2: long as possible. If we move to a year, people
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  Speaker 2: may go, well, it's seven months there before I get
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  Speaker 2: my world. I'd better put those tires on now instead
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  Speaker 2: of waiting, because they'll be completely baled when they're done.
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  Speaker 2: So we've got a work around those psychological triggers of
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  Speaker 2: the ages and what they will do. But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: in my own personal circumstances, I've got a ninety seven motorcycle.
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  Speaker 2: I've got every six months, how do you ride it
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  Speaker 2: over winter? I put the most expensive tires and look
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  Speaker 2: after it. You think it just seems crazy to do
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  Speaker 2: it every six months. But as I said, we've just
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  Speaker 2: got to work out because of that high failure raid
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  Speaker 2: on first expections about what this age difference is going
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  Speaker 2: to do.
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  Speaker 1: Do we basically are we saying we kind of need
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  Speaker 1: the reminder of it almost we do.
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  Speaker 2: And what's coming through as our members as they do
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  Speaker 2: like to have the reminder, and they do like the
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  Speaker 2: have of all things paper and the digital one. They
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  Speaker 2: come to rely upon looking up in the window, seeing
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  Speaker 2: when it's due and then arrange accordingly with it. We
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  Speaker 2: do know with the newer vehicles they've got service plans,
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  Speaker 2: so they're regularly going in every fifteen thousand kilometers or
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  Speaker 2: something like that and getting inspected. So the road worthy
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  Speaker 2: is a strong case for longer period we.
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  Speaker 1: Can They completely unrelated and very quickly in the UK
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  Speaker 1: used today on the show, we were talking about headlights
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  Speaker 1: have gone led and the UK government's investigating them because
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  Speaker 1: they're too bright for people. It's dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have any Yeah, we're getting that. There's a
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  Speaker 2: number of studies done on it. What happens and particularly
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  Speaker 2: as you age, your ability to handle the light changes.
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  Speaker 2: And two things have happened. One is we've made it
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  Speaker 2: brighter LEDs and we've put them in taller vehicles our
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  Speaker 2: SUV so we've moved away from the big sedan to
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  Speaker 2: the taller suv. So we've elevated the lights and.
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  Speaker 1: We've made we need do we need to do something?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Look, we follow international standards and we go to lighting.
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  Speaker 2: So I think the UK looking at it, they're a
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  Speaker 2: major car manufacturer. Just like the Japanese and the Americans,
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  Speaker 2: everybody's looking at the actual feature right now. And the
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  Speaker 2: bright lights, well they're annoying. Here's the kicking they are.
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  Speaker 2: But they work really well for you if you're driving.
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  Speaker 2: They just don't work very well for other people who
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  Speaker 2: are also on the road. So I said, we've got
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  Speaker 2: to get somewhere in the middle, which is.
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  Speaker 1: A bit of a problem. Terry, appreciate your time this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Terry Collins, Principal Policy Advisor for the AA.
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