New driver's licence card printer a waste of money

Daniel Puchert

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South Africa must say goodbye to driver's licence cards and car discs

South Africa should scrap its driving licence card and vehicle licence discs and replace them with digital-only permits that never expire.

"There is no need for analogue documents for licensing when every driver has fingerprints, and every vehicle has a VIN," said road safety expert and Driving.co.za managing director Rob Handfield-Jones.
 
Just do it like they do here in the UK. Everything is online. No need for car license discs anymore as its done online and don't need to carry your driving license, which lets 10 years - s cops can just check at the roadside if you have one or not, anyway.
 
Just do it like they do here in the UK. Everything is online. No need for car license discs anymore as its done online and don't need to carry your driving license, which lets 10 years - s cops can just check at the roadside if you have one or not, anyway.
The difference is that there in High Tory there's probably no pigs disguised as traffic cops. But, god, you have a lot of speed traps...
 
Just do it like they do here in the UK. Everything is online. No need for car license discs anymore as its done online and don't need to carry your driving license, which lets 10 years - s cops can just check at the roadside if you have one or not, anyway.
In the UK you are allowed to import cars from Japan:
 
Just do it like they do here in the UK. Everything is online. No need for car license discs anymore as its done online and don't need to carry your driving license, which lets 10 years - s cops can just check at the roadside if you have one or not, anyway.
LIL. You comparing a 3rd world country with a 1st world country. That will never happen in SA. Don't think they've made real progress in 30 years. I might be wrong.
 
Just do it like they do here in the UK. Everything is online. No need for car license discs anymore as its done online and don't need to carry your driving license, which lets 10 years - s cops can just check at the roadside if you have one or not, anyway.
Licence! Noun!
License = verb!

You've been licensed to hold a driving licence!

Think practice vs practise; advice vs advise.

This one drives me nuts. Routinely see it in articles, too. Often jumping between the two on the writer's aesthetic whim.

Delighted that MyBB largely spare my bugbears o_O
 
The gravy needs to flow.
Government running out of places to steal money.
 
Licence! Noun!
License = verb!

You've been licensed to hold a driving licence!

Think practice vs practise; advice vs advise.

This one drives me nuts. Routinely see it in articles, too. Often jumping between the two on the writer's aesthetic whim.

Delighted that MyBB largely spare my bugbears o_O

Do calm down, it's just the internet and too early in the week to get annoyed over such things. :p

The speed limits are ridiculous admit it... Jeez, they want everyone to drive like pensioners

I don't find them ridiculous. Some country lanes/roads here are 60mph, where only a single car can fit down the road. That's ridiculous. But 30 mph in a residential area or a small village seems reasonable to me.

Have you driven on these roads before?

We were comparing SA to UK. In UK you can have nice things like cheap cars from Japan. Here not so much.

Understood. It was a genuine question car; can you actually import a car from Japan, into SA?

Durban has zero speed cameras, and we survive just fine. They are just money making contraptions.

That's a different argument and imho if they were just a money making scheme - the government would not try make it as obvious as possible where the camera is and penalize you more on points than monatary value and even short prison time if you're a repeat offender with your license being revoked.

In SA I believe it's just a money making thing, yes.
 
I don't find them ridiculous. Some country lanes/roads here are 60mph, where only a single car can fit down the road. That's ridiculous. But 30 mph in a residential area or a small village seems reasonable to me.

Have you driven on these roads before?
So 40km/h everywhere in residential areas, it used to be a more reasonable equivalent as in SA around 60km/h but I recall back in the early 2000s there was this massive drive to lower the speed limits because the nanny state reckoned speed killed everything including the family dog
 
So 40km/h everywhere in residential areas, it used to be a more reasonable equivalent as in SA around 60km/h but I recall back in the early 2000s there was this massive drive to lower the speed limits because the nanny state reckoned speed killed everything including the family dog

The 30 mph speed limit has been in place in the UK for nearly 90 years. Motorways in the UK didn’t have speed limits until around 1965, when a 70 mph limit was introduced—similar to South Africa’s 75 mph limit. The most recent speed regulation change is in Scotland, where 20 mph zones have been introduced in certain areas.

So, this “massive drive” you’re referring to is either a fabrication or didn’t really have much of an impact.
 
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