Thread 82107624

failed my driving test

>>82107624 (OP)
Whether or not I laugh at you depends on where you live. The driving tests here in the USA are comically easy so long as you can learn parallel parking. I passed first time when I was 16 (this was years ago I'm not a minor, mods). On the other hand, I once I had a Frenchman tell me his driving test was stupidly difficult and that only like 30% of people pass it on the first try. My advice? Keep trying. Most of the losers that post here give up at the first sign of actual hardship and that's why their lives suck, besides all the mental illness of course.

>>82107670
I fucked up at the reverse around the corner thing

>>82107624 (OP)
i also failed mine but mine are hard as fuck

>>82107624 (OP)
I took a left on red on my first driving test. I don't know why I even did that. I knew that was the wrong thing to do but no one ever let me drive before and I'm autistic and my anxiety was through the roof. Couldn't think straight. Passed my 2nd test though.

>>82107624 (OP)
It's okay I failed too after 50 hours of lesson and driving.
I did however got it on my second try, you just have to keep going anon

>>82107624 (OP)
I wouldn't feel that bad. Its really at the wim of the tester. I nearly ran over some pedestrians during my test, but I still passed lol

okay spongebob

me? failed twice, passed on the 3rd in the yooooooooooooooooookay which is way worse than the US because it costs a fucking fortune over here and we have such a backlog you can wait like 6 months for a test, one test that you can fail if you get even 1 serious fault, a serious fault can be something as small as slowing down another driver.

>>82107624 (OP)
I'm a retard and passed it my first try. I live a state where they practically hand licenses out.
Try it again and you'll get it right. I also got a cdl that made the driver's license look like a joke. You're getting up in your head about it. It is fairly simple

>>82107624 (OP)
Yeah I know that feel I thought I was gonna pass just because of all those cars I stole the first time borrowed

>>82107624 (OP)

I failed three times and now I have my license and am great driver. Sometimes the DMV proctor just hates life and is looking for any reason to fail you like not coming to a full stop for exactly 3 seconds at a stop sign with no one around.

>>82107624 (OP)
I'm 24 and I just passed my written test

>>82107670
I've been driving for almost 10 years and never bothered to learn parallel parking

>>82109084
It is backing into a spot. It takes a few tries, you have to really use your mirrors for that

>>82109084

Just get parallel ("parallel parking", it's in the name) with the car in front of the spot that you want then back up a few inches to ensure the cars don't clip each other, then just turn into the spot. Once the back of the car is in the actual spot, the rest is just easy and intuitive maneuvering to get the full car inside.

>>82107624 (OP)
It's okay, I failed my first time but then passed the second time. Believe it or not, it's normal to fail things. Just make sure to learn from it.

>>82107624 (OP)
>failed my driving test
Try again, anon

>>82109059
>I just passed my written test
Fucking nice. Keep it up nigga

>>82107624 (OP)
I failed once at 18 and never tried again. I live in a Euro city and I just don't need a car. I don't know why I even tried. Also, my country is very corrupt and apparently you have to bribe someone or know someone in order to pass. I remember going to the test alone with my instructor while everyone else had a relative with them, probably to bribe the examiners. The whole thing left a bitter taste in my mouth and because I had and still have zero need for a car, I decided I can live without.

>>82107624 (OP)
Meanwhile here I am with a licence since i was 18 always driving drunk and speeding and still having my licence lmaooo some cases truly am lucky as fuck.

>>82107624 (OP)
32, only ever got a permit because nobody is willing and/or has time to practice with a grown ass man. Not even my family.
Starting to wonder if the cops will take pity on me if they caught me borrowing a family car at night.

>>82109275
I also live in a euro city and don't need it for day-to-day life inside the city but it's nice to have for going to further away places, road-trips, stuff like that
bribing is also common in my country but it's not necessary, it mostly depends on the examiner

>>82109609
>for going to further away places, road-trips,
I get it, I'm just not interested in doing that stuff enough to go through the hell of obtaining my license, buying a car and then maintaining that car. I know from my coworkers that owning a car is just a massive pain in the ass. There's always shit you have to pay for because it breaks. And the fuel price keeps going up. Fuel, road tax, insurance tax, having to buy winter/summer tires, periodic technical inspections and so on. Cars themselves are expensive too and most people who buy them require loans to do so. It's such a massive amount of spending and headaches that I struggle to see why so many people think it's worth it. As I said, there are trains, busses and planes one can use here to reach all kinds of places, even remote ones.
There are just so many downsides that I'd rather buy a train/bus ticket and go visit places that way. Hell, I could even pay for one taxi ride every month within a 100km radius from my city and I'd probably still end up spending less per year than if I had a car.

>>82109741
It's more of a common sentiment in the USA.
Our infrastructure for public transport sucks dick, everything is designed with the assumption almost everyone will drive.
If you don't have a car people will toss out your resume/job application over it, even if it's utterly circular logic that you need an income to support a car, because the buses in this country are notoriously a shitty option for reliable transport.

>>82109824
>If you don't have a car people will toss out your resume/job application over it,
I can understand that if you're applying for a job that requires driving, like a sales agent, taxi driver, truck driver, delivery driver and so on. But for anything else, like an office job, it's absolutely retarded to require that. Even better, here in Europe, a lot of employers have contracts with transport companies to provide busses for the workers who don't want to drive to work. This is how I commute to and from work for free and without dealing with annoying idiots in traffic. I walk 10 mins to a station and then I get on a comfy bus that takes me to work in 20mins. I have stores I can get groceries from when I return in the afternoon.

>>82109921
Ah good I can demonstrate the nightmare then.
Transport company contracts between work sounds utterly foreign to me, would be nice if our overlords cared that much.
Back when I went to college it was a 10-15 minute walk to the bus stop. I like walking, no big deal.
Local small town bus eventually comes every 30 minutes at worst. Then I have to drop off at another stop for a different bus and wait again for another 10-30 minutes, then I sit on the bus for another 10.
Because this is two different buses I have to pay $1 one-way for the small town bus and $2.80 to the other bus system, the latter of which only keeps for 2.5 hours. If I spend $5.60 it converts to an all-day pass. If I buy a monthly pass ahead of time that's $100 for that bus. I would still have to pay $1 for the small town's bus.
None of this is considering holdups caused by traffic or other problems. I googled it right now to verify the times it's saying the bus is 59 minutes late for some reason. So there were days where I got fed up with the bus and decided to take a brisk jog.
Whereas if I were driving it would be 17 minutes, and probably not enough gallons of gas to cost as much as the fees.

Another fun kicker, I applied to a car wash in my town that's a similar walking distance ~15-20 minutes walking. I like walking. They wanted me to head to their office in person, which was four hours by bus from the sheer amount of transfers I had to do. I got there early and they immediately rose concerns about making it to work on time when they asked about my transport even when I pointed out the place I was applying for was well within walking distance. I bent over backwards to meet with them and they still got their panties in a twist over it and wasted both of our time (mostly mine).
I work a wagie job that is not even 10 minutes by foot because I walk faster than google maps thinks I do.

Trips into the city one-way would be about 2 hours and driving would be about 1 hour for reference.

>>82107624 (OP)
>>82107682
Yeah driving might not be for you