Ask us Anything 5th August

it comes in October.

It's going to be launched.

It hasn't officially started yet, but it's coming soon.

So what is graduated driving licences?

Well, it looks different all over the world, really, but essentially it's safeguards that are put in place to protect young drivers and new drivers in some places for when they pass their driving test.

And it can be for a few months or up to six months, depending on where you are.

And the language is really, really important here because you hear GDL restrictions and that's a really negative word.

So we think of it as safeguards.

It's there to help protect people while they're in the really vulnerable learning phase as soon as they're out on their own, just to reduce the deaths on the road.

There are lots of reasons for it.

There's loads of evidence backing that this is one of the big answers.

This will make a huge difference.

And I think, well, I'm very disappointed we haven't got one here, to put it lightly.

Very disappointed.

But I'm really hopeful that one will come.

Yeah, when I first, so I've been in ADI since 2004.

And I remember talking about this in my early ages there, my early days there.

And then the government's changed and it was kicked into touch.

Yeah.

So what's the evidence for graduated licences? Where does it come from and

where

has it been successful?

Okay, so Australia, New Zealand and America have them in place.

There's so much evidence it's very difficult to go into online, but I will refer everybody to look at protectyoungdrivers.com and it's a new resource.

I'm sure you'll send a link out to everyone afterwards.