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Originally Posted by 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.
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An IDP is not a licence and is not valid without a current licence to accompany it. Its sole purpose is to present the foreign licence details (i.e. what type of vehicle can be driven and any restrictions such as automatic-only or must wear eye glasses) in a common and consistent format so that people in a different country don't need to know what a "type A" or "class B" licence from another country actually means.