Learner Drivers in Ireland to Face the Truth…Finally!

Here is an Introduction to the Learner Driver Essential Driver Training Program which starts on 4th April 2011. In the past five years we’ve written extensively on how Learner Drivers in Ireland should be behaving. Of course no one likes to be told how to behave, especially here in Ireland where we are a Nation of Saints and Scholars; a community of Hi-Tech geeks with more money than sense (especially in their choice of Cars!) and a League Table of World Beating Artists and Musicians that any country would love to own.

As we write the organisation responsible for Road Safety and all things related to Learning to Drive, the RSA is rolling out its’ new Flagship program the EDT which comes into force on 4^th April 2011. This Essential Driver Training Program finally brings together what we have all known for a very long time. What's that you may well ask? Well we’ve had no culture of learning to drive here in Ireland …EVER…

 Most Developed EU Nations have been studiously researching, planning and implementing Road Safety strategies to bring down the level of carnage on the roads.It is true that numerous changes to Road Traffic Laws have taken place in Ireland over the last seven years, all of which incidentally, have been driven by EU standards and procedures. These have included Going Metric; The Driver Theory Test, The National Car Test (known as the MOT in UK), The New Learner Permit (which replaces the old Provisional License) Outsourcing of Driving Tests to bring down the waiting list and so on.

Before summer 2009 there had been no Regulation of Driving Schools or Driving Instructors so it made sense that this should be the first priority of the RSA in dramatically improving Driving Standards of Learner Drivers, to be then followed by a New Training regime that every Leaner Driver would be obliged to undergo.The Essential Driver Training Program will be discussed throughout this site and we'll endeavour to cover all the points and make the navigation as simple as possible.

The introduction of the Qualification and Registration of Driving Instructors had been talked about and mulled over by successive Governments and Transport Ministers and it has paved the way for the commencement of the new Essential Driver Training Program which kicks off on the 4th April 2011.