"Green Driving Test"

Mena

Irish Times wrote:

PLANS FOR a new “green driving test” which would examine candidates on driving styles that contribute to reducing carbon emissions and to fuel efficiency were announced yesterday.


Under a review of the driving test syllabus it is proposed to include sections on eco-driving, with instruction on travelling at the appropriate speed, acceleration, braking, gear usage and tyre pressure.

Surely, or perhaps it's just me, they should be focussing on testing drivers ability to correctly use a motorway and park a damn car before introducing this waste of time


Article here.

Alanstrainor

Indeed, i also found this part of the article quite funny

instruction on travelling at the appropriate speed, acceleration, braking, gear usage

eh??? Is that not already covered in the test syllabus?

Green this and green fecking that, if I hear anymore I will go insane.

Dartz

Take the test in a Jaguar V12, or a Hummer.


I'll spare you the traditional rant on the fallacy of Global Warming, and how far from being the counter-corporatism some think it is, Global Warming and climate change as a whole has become a corporate ideology to itself generating billions in revenue for the canny companies who've latched onto greennicks desire for all things environmentally friendly, and are actively funding Pro-CC 'research' to make their products seem more attractive, and more urgently needed. While simultaneously, greennicks fail to realise that it is this excessive consumption and throwaway wasting of perfectly functional materiel for the sake of green-efficiency has become an extension of the throwaway consumer culture that is the true danger to the environment.

That, and it's ****ing cold out today.

Cookie_Monster

What if I have a blue car





[get's coat]

Seth Brundle

Will this mean that you could fail a driving test for not driving in an environmentally friendly manner despite being in control of the car and driving safely?

Owen

This is priceless. I might start hiring out my car for people sitting the test so they can burn as much petrol as possible. Unkel, you with me buddy?

I really really really can't wait for the Greens and FF to call to my door looking for votes.

Stephen

Twats. If they want to improve emissions, they should get rid of speed bumps and all the necessary braking and acceleration and wasted fuel + emissions they cause.

L-M

ned78 wrote: »

This is priceless.

+1

What about those who drive an automatic? An older automatic for that matter, should they all fail automatically because the automatic stays in a lower gear for longer than your conventional manual? I don't know how they can test this, because AFAIK, all cars have different areas of rpm in which they are more economical. Half the people of Ireland won't even know what they're talking about.

Matt Simis

Limerick man wrote: »

+1
I don't know how they can test this, because AFAIK, all cars have different areas of rpm in which they are more economical. Half the people of Ireland won't even know what they're talking about.

The tester already makes assumptions on what gear you "should" be in for X speed, irrelevant of the size of the engine, they would apply the same flawed logic.

Del2005

Driving in a "Green" maner means not redlining in every gear and then standing on the brakes. Is that not roughly what you need to do in the test anyway?

Guy:Incognito

Meh. "plans" is thrown around awfully loosely and yet people here dive in with both feet every time. How many of these times or Indo articles have been posted about over the last couple of years with silly ideas some bloke thought of and a journalist overheard (or just thought up himself) only to never be heard of again?

I wont hold my breath on this one either.

partyatmygaff

Sure theres hardly a difference, It pisses me off and I cant wait to see greens go the same way as the PDs.

Normally people who want to pass will not drive upto the redline nor will they accelerate hard and brake like maniacs.

unkel

ned78 wrote: »

I might start hiring out my car for people sitting the test so they can burn as much petrol as possible. Unkel, you with me buddy?

Oh yeah! I only spotted this thread now and the first thing to come to mind after reading the OP is to lend my V8 petrol cars to people sitting the test. So yeah I'm with you there. Rev rev rev and make those V8s howl

Click me! This is one of them just starting and slightly tapping the accelerator. You get the idea

Zube

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Normally people who want to pass will not drive upto the redline

A mate of mine tells how he drove like a granny for the test, and it must have been really obvious, because afterwards the tester told him: "You've passed. Now you can drive any way you like".

Mena

Stekelly wrote: »

Meh. "plans" is thrown around awfully loosely and yet people here dive in with both feet every time. How many of these times or Indo articles have been posted about over the last couple of years with silly ideas some bloke thought of and a journalist overheard (or just thought up himself) only to never be heard of again?

I wont hold my breath on this one either.

Well, I guess The Minister for Transport, one Noel Dempsey, could be considered "some bloke" ...

IT Article wrote:

Announcing the proposals, Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey said some of the instruction he had wanted to see included was already part of the public service vehicle test syllabus.

as could the RSA CEO Noel Brett

IT Article wrote:

Road Safety Authority chief executive Noel Brett confirmed the plans were being considered

and I guess the fact that it was officially announced by both of these gentlemen could be construed as something Tim O'Brien overheard or, as you suggest, thought up himself.

Zube

Mena wrote: »

and I guess the fact that it was officially announced by both of these gentlemen could be construed as something Tim O'Brien overheard or, as you suggest, thought up himself.

No, probably just some b0llox they thought would sound Green for election season.