Comment on Drivers over 70 to undergo eye tests every three years under plans to improve road safety | LBC

• blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A quick Google suggests the salary is around £30,000, which would put it above the living wage. It’s not an amazing salary, but let’s say that got bumped to £40,000 and then you’d need to hire probably at least 10x the number of examiners to be able to cope with the demand, then suddenly that gets very expensive.

  There’d be arguments about whether it’s actually financially worth it and whether there’s even though labour supply to achieve the number of examiners required.

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  • Poach@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Cars are expensive by their nature. Pass the costs onto the drivers.

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So, you want to discourage people from taking tests, which will result in: fewer people driving and, of those who do drive, more of them driving without a license? How do you plan on replacing the transport for those people who decide they aren’t going to drive - will that be improving public transport? How would that happen?

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        which will result in: fewer people driving

        Yes

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    People have to pay for their tests, so the cost would come out of that. Less than +25% fee presumably given that the other costs like the car won’t be changing to pay them more.

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