THE AA HAS suggested in the UK that drivers who pass automatic driving tests should be allowed to drive manual cars if they complete a one-hour conversion session.<\/p>\n
Currently, motorists who pass a driving test in the UK in an automatic car are only permitted to drive automatics.<\/p>\n
The same is true in Ireland: if your driving licence is for automatic cars only, you need to pass the driver\u2019s test again in a manual car in order to get a licence that permits you to drive manual cars.<\/p>\n
AA president Edmund King has said that automatic drivers shouldn\u2019t have to wait months for a manual driving test appointment and should instead be able to upgrade their licence by completing a one-hour conversion lesson with a driving school.<\/p>\n
What do you think:\u00a0Should automatic drivers be able to convert their licence to manual without retesting?<\/p>\n
\n Poll Results:<\/p>\n
No, they should have to take the test again in a manual car (1180)<\/p>\n
Yes, a lesson should be enough (771)<\/p>\n
I don’t know\/no opinion (71)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE AA HAS suggested in the UK that drivers who pass automatic driving tests should be allowed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,3865,3866],"class_list":["post-581659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-poll","tag-the-daily-poll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}