Posted on 05/07/2020 12:39:38 PM PDT by higgmeister
They're all part of the dreaded road test, which, for decades, has been a rite of passage for every American teenager to obtain their driver's license. Well, until now. "I had been nervous about the driving test -- with the parallel parking and all that," said 17-year-old Willa Pevey from Tucker, Georgia. "So I was happy that I didn't have to do it."
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I flunked my first one. Ran a stop sign executing a Perfect Left Turn (I saw the guy write something after my prior l. turn so I wanted this one to be 100%)
And yeah he was sarcastic about it. Pull over here
Look out back
See that sign there?
What does that sign say?
And turning 16 later than my schoolmates, I was sooooo embarrassed! My Dad had made me late enough as it was
Puts new meaning in ZOOM !
Yet you can get a permit to drive in another country by just showing your U.S. driver's license. Back in 2006, when I traveled with my son to Brussels so we could rent a car, and drive over the border into Holland to visit the village my father had been born in, we were both able to get permits to drive in Belgium and Holland via AAA's travel services.
And they can even recognize as whatever gender they want, and get abortions without advising their parents.
My son got his drivers license without a road test, in Texas, about 10 years ago.
I graduated from high school in '65. We had driver's education at the school, but it wouldn't have done me any good as we didn't own a car. And after I graduated and went to work for the county, I couldn't afford a car payment, so I took two busses to work everyday. I think I was around 29, after I'd gotten married and had two kids that I finally got a permit, and then took my road test. Never owned a new car until I was in my late 30's. I'm 72, and have only had 3 new cars in my life. My last car I had for 15 years, and still wish I had it. Leased a car for the first time last September.
Only short term. And I think they’re trying to be nice. Every American I know that’s taken a European drivers test failed at least once. Going the other way they all ask the same question “was that the whole test?”
Even Germany will recognize a US driver's license for the purpose of renting a car during a visit (even as they may expect to scrape your remains off the Autobahn). But even that country will not recognize a valid US driver's license indefinitely; anyone living there for more than six months who wants to drive a car has to take the German exam (and the corresponding instruction), which is both difficult and expensive (about $2,500 US).
Well at least most other countries in Europe drive in the same lane as here in the U.S. I would have been in real trouble if I’d had to drive in the left lane in Canada when I went to do family research there.
Most states require, that if you are a resident of that state for more than six months, you need to register your car with that state's plates, and get a permanent license for that state.
So we have to dumb down our driving requirements to keep the American economy moving forward while the Euros get to watch our driving fails on YouTube for entertainment.
Next up:
“Bicycle Riding via Telelearning:
Learn to ride a bicycle online with our excellent instructors”
We could have more difficult exams here if we want. We have made a conscious decision to under train and under test our drivers. We don’t have to dumb down anything. If we decided we didn’t want to be the worst drivers in the civilized world we could fix it. But we’ve decided we’re OK with the accident and fatality rates that come from defaulting to letting anybody drive.
How does this make any sense?
It's not just the motorist who wants to drive, it's his employer who needs him to get to work, it's Hollywood who needs him to be able to drive to a theater, it's the restaurant industry who needs him to be able to drive his family out to the local establishment, et cetera.
In Europe, the guy can reach all of these places by jumping on a train; outside of our urban areas, that's not an option.
(I think the biggest push for the self-driving car is the understanding that a) most Americans lack the training and/or intellect for the automobile and b) the size of the country makes large-scale public transportation impossible.)
I suspect not as I believe the article indicated the transactions were online.
Sure we do. While we don’t have great public transit systems in most of the country they DO exist. And now Uber. You can tell by how many of the current generation aren’t even bothering to learn to drive that alternatives exist.
We decided to put everybody on the road and hope for the best. Europe decided to train the hell out of people and make they’re population not a threat on the road. We CAN make that decision. Understand that it starts in school. That would be where we first need to do it, first make driver’s ed not a freaking joke. Full year class, not the 1/4 it is in most districts, with hours spent behind the wheel for ALL. Most everybody I know that did drivers ed in America never even touched a car during class, heck half of them had licenses before they even took the class.
See if you start by making the education a priority then even though your tests are much harder your failure rate won’t go up by much. You’ll still give most students licenses, they’ll actually be trained before hand. Obviously we need to grandfather in existing drivers, give them a longer phase in period for the additional training.
I was a farm kid, I had thousands of miles under my belt at 16, tractors, pickup trucks, cars, raced motocross bikes.
My grandson also raced stock cars at 14, couldn’t drive on the street.
Horrible movie!
It doesn't, especially when you consider the fact that if everyone is expected to self quarantine, teenagers should not need a driver's license at all.
The consideration of a backlog is ludicrous when licensing has always been on a first come first serve basis.
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