Have I been April fooled or something as I've just read on my news feed on the Google home page that this government has now brought in a license renewal for all over 55's in the UK not only is this a right pain in the arse every three years the medical side of it is quite strict with evidence required for eyesight abilities and general health questions which if not answers to dvla guidelines more evidence has to be provided and medicals attended for certification to prove fit to drive obviously the medical will cost plus there is a renewal charge of £14 online or £17 by post I hope all the population who voted these idiots into power are really proud of themselves and are being more inconvenienced than those who used their vote more sensibaly God help us what next
Not sure if this is real or fake news - reports I've seen seem to be from unusual sources, some say for drivers over 62, some say over 55. I'm over 70 anyway and have to renew every 3 years anyway.....
They are probably all true at some point as this government loves to back pedal on all their policies as soon as they get blow back from some community or another
Fake news methinks! Currently over 70's have to renew the licence every 3 years, there is a medical requirement if you wish to retain certain classes (HGV) but for cars and motorcycles all that is needed is for you to self declare that you are fit and able to pass the eyesight requirements no medicals required and there is no fee to renew. As an aside there is a movement to try and get at least a requirement for a certificate from an optician confirming eyesight up to standard following a spate of fatal collisions involving older car drivers killing pedestrians where the car driver had seriously defective eyesight, one motorist had difficulty in reading a number plate from 6 metres!
And he hadn't even had one balloon. Surely there are more accidents caused by younger drivers showing off their skills in popping and banging boy racer cars, off their heads on hippy crack?
Me too, its almost certainly AI generated click bait. One reason why I keep all cookies off and get my news from established sources.
There's so much crap on the internet these days I'm at the point of turning all newsfeeds off. Im an F1 fan (sorry) and there must be 10 fake stories each day about this or that. All crap/clicbait/crap. Don't get me started on AI generated video, apart from the recent South Park episode obviously......
Me too but more so when the drivers weren't pampered pretty boys like in the days of Damon hill Nigel mansell never could take to Schumacher though
Agreed. So many in the run up to the 8T/8TT launch claiming all sorts of nonsense. New versions of XYZ with odd sized engines... If Motobob and the like have not reported on new models or licence changest then I generally don't believe them.