auntblabby wrote:
blue_bean wrote:
I still have A licence and can drive, I just failed my test to progress to the next level of license.
out of curiosity, what classes of driver's license are there in your land? in america, there is only a private drivers license and a commercial drivers license [chauffeurs, semitrucks]. anyways, it's good to know it wasn't you who was strong-armed. over this side of the pond there have been lots of strong-armed burglaries where they broke in while the people were inside eating breakfast or dinner or whatever, tied 'em up, beat 'em up, kidnapped a few, in addition to getting bank acct#s and such.
Our system is quite complicated.
For car licences: There are L's (learners), P's (provisional) which have 2 types, red (P1) or green (P2). Then there are Open licence for manual, Open licence for automatic.
There's a separate licence for bikes, and there are limits on how powerful your bike can be according to which bike licence you have, RE (being the learners version) or R.
Then you have licences according to what you are driving by weight, Light (LR), medium (MR) , heavy (HR), heavy combination (HC) or multiple combination (MC), which covers all the industrial forms.
We have to all have to have seat belts on if in a car. We also always have to wear a helmet when riding a bike. And texting while driving is illegal here.
It is quite a paternalistic system.