Compulsory re-testing for over 65's

[Ed Doe]

I agree, tbh there's nothing wrong with compulsory re-tests from an earlier age still.

I'd go further still to say that advanced driving techniques should be made compulsory, and the process for getting a license should be fundamentally changed. It's too easy to get a license, and young driver's (myself included when I first passed for sure!) don't know enough about how to control a car, or what to do in some situations, purely because they haven't had enough time & experience behind the wheel.
On that note, the Pass Plus is a joke. So you passed your test, but have never driven on a motorway before, and chances are you haven't got much night time experience, or adverse weather experience, so they charge you MORE per hour to do that. It should be part of the test.

Intensive '1week guaranteed pass' block lessons shouldn't be allowed either.

I learnt more about how to control a car in a field pissing about with my mates and some stakes we made into a slalom course than I did during my driving lessons... all 10 hours of lessons before passing first time....and then crashing a week later having driven the sum total of 1hour on the road since passing... (locked up in the damp in my Citroen ZX and went into the back of an Audi, thankfully no damage to the Audi, so they didn't claim; lesson learnt, and never did that again........ )

Bring on the driving tests like Sweden's, with 2years of learning, skidpan practice, forest driving practice, ice driving etc.!