Application+for+Western+Australian+Drivers+Licence

2. **Application for Western Australian Drivers Licence**

1. You will be required to navigate your way through the internet to the licencing centre of W.A. to investigate the procedures associated with obtaining a probationary permit to drive on Australian roads. Identify these requirements and formulate an opinion of whether the requirements are stringent enough. What are some recommendations you and the committee could put forward to the Austroads panel, to enable safer changes to be made to Australian roads. Develop a class brainstorm of your ideas in inspiration. 2. You will placed into small groups (preferably four groups) and begin a rotation of activities designed to help you acknowledge the flaws in the system for new drivers. Each activity is designed to simulate an aspect of driving that new learners may experience. a) The first activity will be the completion of the computer Log book test, with the help of members of your small group working together on the interactive whiteboard. Allow each member of the group to be the leader and actually provide the answers on the interactive whiteboard. b) Secondly, a small table with a deck of cards (in no particular order) on it will be set up in one corner of the room. Elect one of your group members to perform the task of placing the entire deck into four piles according to their suit (hearts, spades, diamonds or clubs). The rest of the group is to provide no support for the elected group member, but must record the time which is taken to complete the task with a stop watch and write down the results. c) In the third task, your group will be required to pose a series of questions to your elected group member as they repeat the same experiment placing a deck of cards into the four piles of suites. The elected group member must respond to each of you when you ask a question whilst continuing to organise the cards. Music may be played from an ipod port if available and you must record the time taken and write down the result again. d) Finally, the aim of this experiment is to see who reaction time can be effected when driving. Select two of your group members who will be required to perform the reaction time test initially with no distractions. One person will have to be nominated to conduct the ruler drop and another of the group members should ensure that the participants are not cheating through any form. The two selected group members will then use their mobile phones to type a simple text message from the board with one hand, whilst the other hand is held at the base of a meter ruler for a secondary test. Remember to record your results for both the tests. 3. Share your findings with the group and construct a table for all of your results. Correlate all the data together and establish an average score for each of the tests. Can you draw any conclusions from the series of activities you have performed today? Enter the discussion tab to share your opinions with the committee.
 * You now are beginning to develop an understanding of the concerns for young people who are able to both consume alcohol, and drive a vehicle at the tender age of 18. Many of these people, some of whom will be your fellow committe members have not yet experienced or understand the limitations and boundaries of the human body. This investigation needs to address the Concerns over the legal drinking and driving age in Australia which can be persued by clicking on the link.