{"id":252,"date":"2016-08-22T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/?p=252"},"modified":"2016-08-22T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T19:41:00","slug":"driving-test-changes-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Driving Test Changes Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following trials of a new driving test format the Government are now set to introduce the new-style Driving test this year (or early next year) after the results of a public consultation.\u00a0 The changes are to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>increase the \u2018independent driving\u2019 part of the test from 10 to 20 minutes<\/li>\n<li>ask candidates to follow directions from a sat-nav during the \u2018independent driving\u2019 part<\/li>\n<li>replace the \u2018reverse around a corner\u2019 and \u2018turn in the road\u2019 manoeuvres with more real-life scenarios, eg driving into and reversing out of a parking bay<\/li>\n<li>ask 1 of the 2 vehicle safety questions (known as the \u2018show me, tell me\u2019 questions) while the candidate is driving, eg asking them to use the rear heated screen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further information can be found here:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/driving-test-changes-plans-revealed-to-improve-road-safety<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following trials of a new driving test format the Government are now set to introduce the new-style Driving test this year (or early next year) after the results of a public consultation.\u00a0 The changes are to: increase the \u2018independent driving\u2019 part of the test from 10 to 20 minutes ask candidates to follow directions from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-latest-news","9":"post-with-thumbnail","10":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}