I don’t understand what’s happening to this country.
We’ll just have idiot kids driving without a license.
If people WANT to follow the law why are we stopping them?
SpicyNoseClams on
Because 6 months is the furthest ahead you can actually book, if they extended that they’d see that the backlog is actually quite a bit longer
BendItLikeDeclan on
Yet people on reddit will still insist retesting everyone every 10 years is a good idea.
stuckonthecrux on
I literally can’t book a test because I’m trying to book an automatic to manual conversion and it can only be done over the phone. By the time I get through to someone on a phone, all the spots have already been taken by people using the website. I’ve been calling every Monday at 6am for 4 months, I then try to call at random times every other day when I have time to call, but nothing. I’ve given up, and instead I’m putting money aside so I can upgrade to an automatic car. The amount of time I’ve wasted practicing driving manual, and trying to book the test is just depressing.
mynameisollie on
A lot of it is artificial. Developers have worked out how to bot the system and take all the slots and then sell you can app to get access to the slots.
planetwords on
Perhaps it’s time to take up cycling instead? Particularly in big cities like Manchester.
sigwinch28 on
The bot problem has been known about publicly for years, and the “consultation” for a “plan” to address this only closed last week.
The gears of the public sector do indeed turn slowly.
fjtuk on
“This featured a plan aimed at stopping bots mass-booking new slots so they can be resold on the black market for inflated prices.”
And they wonder how the situation arose in the first place 🙄
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I don’t understand what’s happening to this country.
We’ll just have idiot kids driving without a license.
If people WANT to follow the law why are we stopping them?
Because 6 months is the furthest ahead you can actually book, if they extended that they’d see that the backlog is actually quite a bit longer
Yet people on reddit will still insist retesting everyone every 10 years is a good idea.
I literally can’t book a test because I’m trying to book an automatic to manual conversion and it can only be done over the phone. By the time I get through to someone on a phone, all the spots have already been taken by people using the website. I’ve been calling every Monday at 6am for 4 months, I then try to call at random times every other day when I have time to call, but nothing. I’ve given up, and instead I’m putting money aside so I can upgrade to an automatic car. The amount of time I’ve wasted practicing driving manual, and trying to book the test is just depressing.
A lot of it is artificial. Developers have worked out how to bot the system and take all the slots and then sell you can app to get access to the slots.
Perhaps it’s time to take up cycling instead? Particularly in big cities like Manchester.
The bot problem has been known about publicly for years, and the “consultation” for a “plan” to address this only closed last week.
The gears of the public sector do indeed turn slowly.
“This featured a plan aimed at stopping bots mass-booking new slots so they can be resold on the black market for inflated prices.”
And they wonder how the situation arose in the first place 🙄