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No wonder so many kids die in accidents...

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Syringer

Lifer
From the words of a 16-year-old:

Licensed to drive. Yes, that's right. I don't know what the hell I was so afraid of. So I got to the DMV at 9:45. By the way, appointments mean absolutely NOTHING. I waited in line in my car for like 30 minutes. When I finally got to the front of the line, they tested me on all these functions of the car.

And then the lady told me to turn the defroster off, and I was thinking to myself, "What? It's not on, is it?" And I didn't exactly know how to control the defroster so I just turned on the climate screen and pointed to some random button. I guess I got it right. lol.

Then we went to the Glenmore area, and she told me to pull over to the side and park. So I did that, but then when I went in reverse, I totally hit the curb, so I was like, "Oh damn, the test is over now." She didn't say anything, so I guess she didn't care. She had to have noticed it though 'cause it was so freaking obvious. Anyways, the rest of the test was pretty easy.

We just went to Fremont Blvd., Thornton Ave., and Dusterberry. So when I got back to the DMV, she told me to park in the reserved parking. She just started writing this stuff and handed me this paper and said, "Go to window 11." And I was just like, "Umm, okay..." 'cause she didn't even say if I passed or not. So yeah, I passed with four mistakes. It's amazing how you can get 18 errors and still pass.
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I really think the only way to fail a driving test is if you end up killing 2 or more people during the 10 minute test..
 
My test was five minutes long. They asked me to turn my brights on, etc.. Only asked me to do three things like that. Then they had me parallel park which I aced. He then had me drive up the street and around the block and back. Boom. I was done. Easiest stuff ever. Plus, I am a good teenage driver. I am not the kind that speeds when unnecessary and such. I am cautious and careful. Go me.
 
my drivers test took place in less then a 1/4 mile, Drove about 200 yards made a right turn, 100 more yards took a left, did a 3pt turn, went back out made a right, parellel parked, went back to start area

to get my permit i had to andwer a 5 question multy choice test, i got 4/5
 
I failed my test the first time.

1. Screwed up parallel parking (I was nervous, had a tough time even getting the car in gear)
2. Stopped too abruptly at a stop sign
3. Drove exactly the speed limit the whole time (apparantly I was supposed to go 5 mph under... nobody told me that)

(fwiw, it's been nearly 8 years and I've never been in even a minor accident as a driver, either my fault or anyone else's)
 
You should see them test old people.

My grandma's cousin couldn't see 20 feet in front of her....had absolutely no business driving. She went to get her license and failed the vision/sign test...then some other woman DMV officer came over and asked her what happened...she told her she failed and the DMV lady sat her back down at the machine and walked her through the test.
She left with a license.
And I wouldn't have allowed her to vacuum my floor, much less drive.

I've seen LOTS of people, usually older, get their licenses when they had no business passing. I'm sure it's the same for younger people, too.
 
Originally posted by: mugs
I failed my test the first time.

1. Screwed up parallel parking (I was nervous, had a tough time even getting the car in gear)
2. Stopped too abruptly at a stop sign
3. Drove exactly the speed limit the whole time (apparantly I was supposed to go 5 mph under... nobody told me that)

(fwiw, it's been nearly 8 years and I've never been in even a minor accident as a driver, either my fault or anyone else's)
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😀 took mine in a automatic car -) teheh and i was asked 2 back around a cornor and i hit it =) passed butya
 
mine got to be the easiest. Start the car. Leave the curb (no car in front nor behind) and drive forward to the red light (like 100 feet). Turn right. Go one block. Turn right. into a dead end with no car whatsoever. Do a 3-point turn. Go back the same route to the starting point. Stop the car. Done. No parking, no reverse. no nothing.

btw, it's Boston.
 
Mine wasn't that easy, had to drive through difference settings, residential, city, hi-way, but the hardest part was right at the beginning, I was asked to pull out of the parking lot and turn down the street, did that fine, when I got the the stop sign at the end the road and when I looked right I couldn't see, some moron had parked a huge moving truck there, right next to a no parking sign, I just looked at the lady and said "what do I do, I can't see?"

I passed though, had my license for over two years without an accident 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Twista
Originally posted by: mugs
I failed my test the first time.

1. Screwed up parallel parking (I was nervous, had a tough time even getting the car in gear)
2. Stopped too abruptly at a stop sign
3. Drove exactly the speed limit the whole time (apparantly I was supposed to go 5 mph under... nobody told me that)

(fwiw, it's been nearly 8 years and I've never been in even a minor accident as a driver, either my fault or anyone else's)
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😀 took mine in a automatic car -) teheh and i was asked 2 back around a cornor and i hit it =) passed butya
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Ha ha me too. The lady was in a horrible mood and she had a GIANT HEAD, I mean, GIANT head, and I couldn't see well around her so I had to wing it the best I could. I guess I didn't wing it well enough
 
funny thing is.. the actual driving test was like 2minutes and we was done. LOL, they dont throughly i think.
 
I let my out-of-state license expire, so I just got mine today, too. Took the test with an old guy. Only mistake I made was when I started going left a little bit when he said right.
 
Back when I took my driving test, I had to drive several miles though lots of different streets.. I passed easily because I'd already been driving a landscaping truck around for awhile, but it was still a lot tougher test then any of those described above!
 
No one had to drive on the freeway? My test consisted of this:

Park the car between a set of cones, if you touch a cone, you're done. Automatic fail.

If you pass that, you drive into the street, stop, parallel park.

Drive onto the freeway for 1 exit, and drive on the local streets back to the DMV. I thought it was pretty hard. I think they took out the freeway part of the test though because someone died while doing it.
 
I had two friends fail way back when because they both didn't use blinkers when backing into the little parallel parking area in the DMV parking lot. After hearing about them, I made sure to avoid this mistake.
 
I failed my first test for going over the line at a stop sign. Then after the grumpy old b@stard failed me, he politely took an old woman who couldnt speak english and her daughter to test. (in IL, you cannot have someone else in the car with you durring the test).
 
here in Ontario, everyone is on "graduated licensing" that involves three tests

G1 - written multiple choice (45/50 = pass) and you can only drive when there is a passenger with over four years experience, zero BAC, everyone has to be seat belted, no driving on 400-series (ie. highways/freeways that have 100Km/h speed limits)

after a year of G1 there's an in car driving test that lasts approx. 15min
G2 - only rules are no BAC and every passenger needs to have a seatbelt

after another year, can take a 30min in car test that's much harder
G - full license until you're 80; can do anything in the Highway Traffic Act says you can

Anyways, its a good system as teenage drivers have to go through multiple test, need a passenger, and pretty much have to wait until they're over 17 and have been driving under supervision for a year before they are let out on the roads.

It dosen't prevent kids from dying because they're stupid, but has helped with cutting down on fatalities...
 
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