The two stage process of obtaining the driving licence here I used to thing was an erosion of civil liberties, but with the current standard of diving in this country I’m no longer so sure.
I agree. All the hoops one must jump through for a license are a nuisance, especially the parts dealing with State employees, but I kind of like my survival, too.
The reason the driving is so ugly there is because the people who move there from other countries believe that “traffic laws are only for Westerners.” That is from the late horse’s mouth, who spent 18 months in Saudi Arabia in the ‘70s.