Do I need any kind of licence before i'm allowed get driving lessons?

wonko said:
I suppose the idea of being allowed drive unsupervised on Prov. 2is that by that stage you have 2 years experience. You do not need to sit a test as far as I know for Prov 2. However to get Prov 3 you need to sit the test. The warped logic is i suppose is if you are on your third or more provisional you have failed your test and need supervision
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You don't necessarily have 2 years experience by the time your first provisional licence has expired. When I got my first licence I rarely sat behind the wheel and had practically no experience by the time it expired. I was then, theoretically entitled to drive alone for 2 years.
 
shesells said:
...Up to the test my insurance company knew I was driving alone and I was fully covered...
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That's what everyone seems to think. Probably cause no one's heard of a case where the insurance company refused to pay out when a driver on a provisional, driving on their own, caused an accident. However if the damage were high enough, then the insurance company may refuse.

I'm thinking something along the lines of crashing into an oil tanker on the M50 toll bridge, causing said tanker to crash over the bridge and go up in flames causing structural damage to the bridge and serious polution to surrounding area and Liffey. I did hear of a similar accident in Germany where the offending driver was found to have been on drugs (cannibis or cocaine, can't remember) and the insurance company was refusing to pay out.
 
Persius said:
I'm thinking something along the lines of crashing into an oil tanker on the M50 toll bridge
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This kind of gets back to my original question about whether you are insured to drive even though your provisional license says you cant drive alone.

This is made doubly worse on the M50 because as far as I'm aware , provisional drivers are banned from dual carriageways also according to the terms of their licence.
 
sign said:
This is made doubly worse on the M50 because as far as I'm aware , provisional drivers are banned from dual carriageways also according to the terms of their licence.
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I think it's motorways which provisional licence holders are banned from using, not dual carriageways.
 
Kind of off topic:

If i learn in an a/t transmission car will I only be licenced for automatic or both manual & auto?
 
Sn@kebite said:
Kind of off topic:

If i learn in an a/t transmission car will I only be licenced for automatic or both manual & auto?
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If you take your test in an a/t car and are successful, your full licence will be limited or restricted to a/t vehicles as far as I'm aware
 
Persius said:
That's what everyone seems to think. Probably cause no one's heard of a case where the insurance company refused to pay out when a driver on a provisional, driving on their own, caused an accident. However if the damage were high enough, then the insurance company may refuse.

I'm thinking something along the lines of crashing into an oil tanker on the M50 toll bridge, causing said tanker to crash over the bridge and go up in flames causing structural damage to the bridge and serious polution to surrounding area and Liffey. I did hear of a similar accident in Germany where the offending driver was found to have been on drugs (cannibis or cocaine, can't remember) and the insurance company was refusing to pay out.
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Knew an ex-work colleague on a provisional a couple of years back who rear-ended someone on the M50 - his insurance company wouldn't pay out on the basis that his driving on a motorway was a voluntary violation of the traffic laws by him, and basically invalidated his policy
 
Yes, manual transmission licence covers both manual and a/t , but not the other way around
 
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