Studying

We're having to study for our Learner's Permit, all over again, as if we were 18 and starting to drive from scratch. How is it then that we can drive for the first year on our foreign license, but must thereafter take a road and theory test? Our current S.A. (old version, no longer accepted) and U.S. licenses aren't transferable, so we must begin again. It just makes no sense, since driving is driving, and if I can safely be allowed to drive on the roads as a visitor, why does it change after a year?

There is about an 8 month waiting list to do a road test, so we need to register to do that very soon, before our free year of driving runs out. THEN we'd need to have a licensed driver accompany us everywhere until we qualify and pass. So convoluted, and unnecessary.

Some of the funniest phrasings we've come across is the very Briitsh understated way of saying things, such as:

some areas have 'traffic-calming measures,' (roundabouts, humps, etc)

and

a failure to change one's speed after a speed limit delimiter is regarded as 'a failure to proceed'

There are 758 practice test questions online, and a total of 307 highway code rules. Here are some examples of test questions we're practicing with on line -ugh!