Dam. How much these tests cost? I feel like the examiner is clearly signaling they want a bribe. You should report them!
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Driving Tests Suck
- Thread starter T002 Tyrant
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Dam. How much these tests cost? I feel like the examiner is clearly signaling they want a bribe. You should report them!
I passed my license on my second try almost exactly one year ago and both times it was the most stress inducing test I've ever had to pass. I'm still bad at driving, but at least I can go to places without public transportation.
I failed my first one because I rushed into it and I clearly wasn't ready. Made a dumb, obvious mistake that wasn't dangerous but absolutely should have failed it.
Practiced for another few weeks, went for one more round of lessons and covered all the questions I had. Easily passed the next time. Though the tester that time was a lot more chill in general, plus the snow was pretty bad and I have heard they are more lenient if you are confident driving in those conditions. At that time I had exclusively learned to drive in Northern Ontario snow so it was no problem.
Signalling too long seems like a crazy reason to fail a test outright unless it was really extreme.
Practiced for another few weeks, went for one more round of lessons and covered all the questions I had. Easily passed the next time. Though the tester that time was a lot more chill in general, plus the snow was pretty bad and I have heard they are more lenient if you are confident driving in those conditions. At that time I had exclusively learned to drive in Northern Ontario snow so it was no problem.
Signalling too long seems like a crazy reason to fail a test outright unless it was really extreme.
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The tests were expensive as shit for me, especially since I had no income at the time and was going off of savings between contracts. I don't remember how much they cost in Ontario, but I also had to pay to use my instructor's car each attempt because my parents' vehicle wasn't fit for tests. If there's so much as a crack in the windshield you can't use it. On the upside, you get an hour of lessons right before the test which helped my nervousness a lot. On top of the financial stress I also learned to drive pretty late in life and it was a big hurdle for me.
I had the exact same issue, I actually stalled on three separate occasions on my test, every time the examiner tried to chat to me to calm my obvious nerves.
Oddly enough I ended up passing despite the stalls (generally because they were in safe places, and I dealt with them properly I was told).
OT: It sucks, and is expensive, but just try and get as many hours in a car as possible if you can (with an instructor or with another licensed driver). It certainly helped me.
Dude, I'm doing lesson now, book the test in Jan ( as that is what the instructor told me ). I follow the rules and have no problem driving on the road, pretty confident myself. But I always have this feeling that i'm gonna fuck up somehow during the test for stupid reason. I mean it was very strict with my instructor already and I'm sure it will be the same or even more with the examiner, but I just feel like they are a bit too much just for so many small things. I heard that some of the previous learner failed because he forgot to check all mirrors when leaving from the curb...
Judging from people who drive on the road, I would say half of them never get the test tbh.
Judging from people who drive on the road, I would say half of them never get the test tbh.
Lol me too. Fortunately I passed the test even though the reverse parallel parking did not go as planned at all haha.
That hasn't been part of the CA test in ages - at least it wasn't when I got my license almost 20 year ago.
Problem is once you have the license you don't really have to follow the rules as closely then you lapse in to bad habits that you have little incentive to snap out of. Especially with Waze that'll warn you about most of the camera monitoring.
The only thing I had to do that was similar was pull up to a curb, and then back up a certain distance without hitting.
Hehe I wish I had that instead of PP , did they stop doing it because parallel parking is bullshit ?
I failed a test for crossing lanes on a roundabout on one of my driving tests, there were no lane markings on the roundabout to designate multiple lanes (it was physically wide enough to act as if it was 2 lanes) I argued and got no where
Then years later as a highways engineer i got to remark that roundabout AND NOW ITS JUST ONE *#@ÂŁING LANE, revenge is a dish served ice cold
Then years later as a highways engineer i got to remark that roundabout AND NOW ITS JUST ONE *#@ÂŁING LANE, revenge is a dish served ice cold
Huh, maybe they added it back in, or it was just a San Diego thing. When I did it, it was known that parallel parking wasn't part of the test - just the curb back-up.
It is in the Netherlands, or to be more specific..you have to do two 'special maneuvers', which could be a form of parking, turning on a street, stopping and starting on a hill etcetera. The examiner picks two of them and you have to perform them. However the most important when doing them is actually being mindful of your environment, other traffic, signalling etc....not actually perfect parking. So people rarely fail because of them.
Well at the very least they have to learn on a manual transmission whereas most people here have automatic. Other than that it's the same.
Not to be rude, but if your vision is bad enough that you can't read signs or plates, perhaps it's not safe for you to be behind the wheel of a car.
I'm lucky enough that glasses make my vision good enough, but without them I'm not legal to drive.
We do. I've never heard someone refer to one as a "traffic circle."
This isn't true. I agree that UK tests are on the rigorous side, but you can get an automatic-only license over here. I only know one person who has one, though, and she's Canadian.
It's worth noting that, for employment purposes, if a job requires you to drive it will probably require you to have a "full, clean driving license," which I think means you need to be able to drive manual or automatic - an automatic-only license doesn't count.
Most cars in the UK are manual, but as you get up the size and price range - towards mid-range and luxury SUVs - there are a lot more automatics than there used to be.
We do have manuals here too. Although commercial drivers have to get special licenses. Not sure how that works in the UK.
I remember I failed one of my driving tests at the last possible moment. I had done everything perfectly and we pulled into the lot,t he instructor told me I could park and end the test. It was a simple turn into an empty parking spot. No cars or people around. But I didn't put on my turning signal so I failed.
I can see plenty well enough to drive. Just last week I cycled 20 miles at night, including several long roads with zero street lighting, using only the little LED light on my bike to see ahead. I managed just fine.
I can see vehicles and people at pretty much any distance that anyone else can. I can even see signs just fine; just maybe not read them at a distance that I'd never need to read that at in practice anyway.
If you can't pass the number plate test then your eyesight is awful, sorry to say. You might not think so but then you're used to it. It's not a hard test to pass.
I think it was a bit sooner than 9 years before motorway driving was brought in. Sounds right for the self navigation part. I passed in 2011 and I didn't have any motorway driving segment but had to follow road signs to a place. Not that it really matters as such, just wanted to say.
If that was part of my license exam, I would still be without a license.
Fuck parallel parking
Anyways OP, odds are you're not really a comfortable driver. It's ok! Just keep pushing. And with experience you'll get better
What a fucking stupid post. It's because of people like you that I had MASSIVE driving anxiety.
Newsflash: people can learn. Be kind to them and don't scare them and make them think they're incompetent.