Car advice for people whose age and IQ are both over 50.
MANY OF OUR READERS LEARNT to drive very young, often on farms or country properties. It was experience that has served them well for many decades, even though the driver training and test were far
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IN A MOVE THAT WILL resonate in Australia, the UK’s leading independent road safety charity, IAM RoadSmart, has highlighted the need to ensure that the government, and car makers, prioritise training for drivers in its
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OVER-50S ARE GREAT CRITICS of young drivers, often with justification. But we’re not sure how well many over-50s would do in an innovative and worthwhile UK initiative aimed at young drivers. The search has started
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IT HAS LONG BEEN OUR contention that driver training needs to start far earlier than it currently does, especially in Australia. Behaviours are ingrained at an early age, and driver training that starts at 16
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LAST YEAR, SEVEN OUT of the top ten selling vehicles in Australia were SUVs. It’s a trend that’s been getting stronger year on year. So much so, in fact, that the best-selling single vehicle in
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WE’VE MADE NO SECRET of our belief that attendance at advanced and high-performance driving courses results in better drivers, of all ages and abilities. Naturally, this applies to women as much as to men. After
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THE WORLD IS ALWAYS CHANGING, and nowhere more so than on our roads. Many drivers who first earned their driver‘s licence in their teens have been driving for decades. In that time, car technology, traffic
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ACCORDING TO RESEARCH released recently by the RACQ, more mothers are teaching learners to drive than any other supervisor. More than 53 percent of learners surveyed reported they were mainly supervised by their mums or
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AUSTRALIA MAINTAINS ITS reputation for inconsistency in road rules with varying minimum driving ages, depending on what state you’re in. In Victoria, the minimum age to hold a driver’s licence is 18 years. The Northern
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Would you send a worker into a factory without training? Of course not. But most people who drive for work have never been offered driver training. Seventy-two percent of people who drive for work in
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