[Soundguy]

I think IDP's are rather useless, I had one for 12 months but no-one was interested in it so I never renewed. The other day I was in a car rental office here and some German tourists were trying to rent a car and presented an IDP, apparently they had been advised that this is what was needed to drive in Australia. The rental company refused to accept it and insisted on seeing the German drivers license. They explained that if his German licence had been cancelled the IDP would not have been so they don't consider it a valid form of licence.

My wife doesn't drive (yet, she wants to learn now I bought an automatic car) but she has a foreign motorbike licence that is still valid. Funny thing is that it says nothing at all about 'motorbike' on the licence so it would be entirely possible for her to rent a car in any country, despite never having driven one before.