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Speaker 1: Good afternoon to you. Now, getting your full license will

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Speaker 1: no longer require a final driving test if the government

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Speaker 1: gets his way. They're considering dropping the test because it's

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Speaker 1: quote time consuming and inefficient. Harold Luvenberg is the owner

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Speaker 1: of a one driving school and is with us now.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Harold, Hello, how are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm very well? Thank you. Good idea to drop this

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Speaker 1: final test?

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. No, it is really good

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Speaker 2: to have the extra test and getting people like if

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Speaker 2: people have lost that the standard, have dropped their standard

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Speaker 2: of driving, it's good to do another test and to

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Speaker 2: just get back up to their standard again.

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Speaker 1: The government says the reason that they're doing this is

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Speaker 1: because it's expensive and it's also stressful for people. But

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Speaker 1: neither of those things are generally things I would consider

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Speaker 1: this government to be too worried about and buy it,

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Speaker 1: do you.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think so either.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 2: And I can't see the stress. I mean, I suppose

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Speaker 2: every test can be stressful, but if you're well prepared,

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Speaker 2: then it shouldn't be stressful at all, like any test.

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Speaker 1: So what's the real reason that they're dropping it?

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Speaker 2: Well, sure, Actually I think it's more what the rest

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Speaker 2: of the world is doing like the rest of the world.

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Speaker 2: There's only one driving test, so that's probably what they

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Speaker 2: want to get more in line.

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Speaker 1: With how many people do you fail in that test?

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Speaker 2: Well, we don't do the testing ourselves, but I mean,

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Speaker 2: I don't have the results for that in front of me.

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Speaker 2: But it's not as high as the restricted license test

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Speaker 2: because it is a much easier test.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, basically what I'm asking is is this

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Speaker 1: test actually weeding out bad drivers? I like a significant

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Speaker 1: number of people being failed and kept off the road,

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Speaker 1: because that's terrible.

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Speaker 2: That's a good question. It's just bad habits. So I

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Speaker 2: suppose people just have bad habits, and a lot of

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Speaker 2: it is in observation. People are just not using not

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Speaker 2: looking around them properly and not scanning properly at intersections

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Speaker 2: and making poor decisions. That really a big one which

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Speaker 2: causes a lot of accidents.

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Speaker 1: Harold, thank you very much, Really appreciate your expertise. It's

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Speaker 1: Harold Livenberg, who's the owner and a driving instructor at

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Speaker 1: a one driving school.

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