Driver's license testers, what are your road test horror stories?
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My very first driving lesson, in driving instructor's car:
Instructor "have you ever driven before?"
Me: "no"
Shows me all the controls and suggests we can get started driving. As we're driving...
Him: "You seem very relaxed for someone who's never driven before"
Me: "It's not MY car"
He went silent LOL
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
That’s fair. And the opposite of how I am.
In Europe you take the practical driving test with an automatic car you are not allowed to drive a manual. You take the practical driving test with a manual you are allowed to drive both types of gearboxes
You contradicted yourself. Are you, or are you not allowed drive a manual?
Not anymore, my brother only had to do a certain amount of practical lessons in a manual car, he did his test in an automatic car, his licence allows him to drive both
@@l.c.8475
Just checked, it still applies in my country.
They tried to end it, but it failed for some reason (probably for the best)
In the free world, one license gets you both.
@@AiOinc1But should it though?
I was an examiner for years. One time, someone came in a beautiful manual Mustang. Kid was nervous as all heck. Once we start, he gets into gear and immediately starts grinding. In less than 200 feet, he stalled the vehicle three times. As I'm having him park without even driving around the lot into the proper end stalls, his driver comes running out yelling at him for messing with his "baby." Turns out driver was the kid's uncle and never let him practice in the Mustang because he didn't trust him, but the car he practiced in didn't have working taillights for the test, so they came in the Mustang. Dude, why never have the kid drive manual and expect him to miraculously know how on his exam day?!?!
At least get a crappy car that’s on its last legs with a manual transmission first if you don’t trust said new driver that way it doesn’t matter if they destroy the transmission or clutch
Here in Germany, you take both driving lessons and the actual test in specially modified cars with a second set of pedals for the instructor. Said cars are owned by the driving schools.
Yeah my school (in the US) had those too, but only a brake pedal.
@@finley07in the Netherlands, my instructor had a clutch, brake and accelerator
Those exist in the UK as well. My instructor's car I think just had a clutch and brake, though.
@@jorritvanderkooi939I remember that
@@jorritvanderkooi939 damn you got the whole set up
With my driving test approaching, people were telling me all sorts of stories about people failing for one simple mistake or other. SO I thought ANY mistake means you fail.
Start of my test, the tester has me start the car, and tells me "go right out the gate"
I pull up to the gate, and wait...after a short pause I ask "which way now" (you could go left or right, not straight)
He said "Right. I told you 'go RIGHT out the gate' "
I reply "Ohh, i thought you meant go straight out the gate as in 'go right ahead' " (he said nothing as I acted a bit flustered, and was sure I'd already failed)
Since I thought I already failed, I just drove around really relaxed and didn't stress about much.
We got back and I expected to book another day to retake the test. He handed me a certificate saying I'd passed....I was in shock LOL
You checked to clarify instructions which is better than most drivers on the road!
@@catgckool428worst part is some of those drivers have driven for years
first time ever driving, we had to pick up my mom at the airport a couple hours away. My dad had me driving an SUV on a dark rainy night, on a freeway, with construction (narrowed lanes, traffic cones dividing the two lane of traffic). He just sat in the passenger seat, calmly chewing on his pipe stem like he used to do. After over an hour, before we hit the city, he had me switch over so he’d drive us the rest of the way and told me I’d done a great job. I was so wrung out from the experience. It did make driving after that feel so much easier. Passed my exam on the first try.
“The examinator!” -Dr. Doofenshmirtz, probably
“A Driving instructor platypus?”
“Parry the driving instructor platypus!?”
“Turn! Yield! Halt! If you fail you know who’s at fault of a vehicular assault when you’re doing the Drusselstien Driving Test Waltz!”
@@XionAmmy This sounds like something that would actually be in Phineas and Ferb.
lmao
16:00 The Examiners CAN'T fail drivers that miss that Stop Sign because it is obscured and thus NOT LEGALLY POSTED!
Nor can Police Legally issue Tickets for driving through it for the same reason...any Tickets written for a obscured sign can and should be fought in Court and immediately Dismissed...
For a Traffic Sign to be Enforceable, it must be CLEARLY VISIBLE...half covered in bushes is NOT Clearly Visible under the Law...
And they can’t claim that it was visible cause you need to see it far enough away to safely come to a stop regardless of the speed limit
@@Allantitan Which is basically what I said...
They can ticket for it but it’s easy to get thrown if you can prove it was obscured such as with a picture of the sign obscured at least here in Texas …
My mom got into an accident just as we were leaving on an 18 hr road trip. Car was totaled. Me, my two older sisters, and my 11month old nephew were in the car. My oldest sister broke her wrist. This left me and my middle sister terrified of driving, and it took her longer to finally have the courage to get her license. I let her use my cars since the car she was going to drive had a crack in the windshield. I let her drive on the way to the BMV to get used to my car, but she wasn’t used to it enough as during her test, she drove 1mph over the speed limit and the tester failed her. We were all pissed for her, that was her only mistake. She took it again a month later and passed :)
Failed for 1mph over the limit? Its normal for people to drive 3-4 over all the time! On the highway, people will go 10mph+ over limit. Thats one annoying tester. She definitely should have passed the first time, but glad she got her license 2nd time
Really sorry to hear about the accident, but getting failed for driving 1 mph over the speed limit is insane!
Also, I relate a lot to having anxiety with driving after being in an accident. Sorry for the somewhat long story, I suck at explaining things.
When I was 16, my mom was driving down this big highway-like road that still had intersections and she would always drill into me that you must always drive at a safe speed when coming to an intersection to be able to slow down and stop when the yellow light turns on. I respect her for that, because in the areas we've lived, people are always flying down yellow and even red lights at like 80 mphs. So, with that knowledge, we're coming to this intersection and sure enough the light turns yellow, and as we're slowing down approaching it I have an odd gut feeling that I couldn't place my finger on. Then, I see the car that was driving behind us darts out to the left and it zooms through the light *which was still on yellow as we're almost about to stop, (and my heart only has a second to sink)* and the very second before/during the light change to red, there is a shriek of tires as we are semi rear ended and semi side swiped by another car that had been directly behind the first car. It barrels down the right side of the road smoking like a rocket and leaving our car totalled. Turns out that this particular intersection stays on yellow WAY longer than normal since the road is like a highway, and people never stop for the yellow there. Needless to say, now that I've finally gotten the courage to get my permit, we only stop at yellows if there isn't a car breathing down our backs. 😅
@@green29373plus for all they knew the speedometer could have been off by 1 mph
1 mph over the speed limit isn't even legally punishable, what a shitty instructor.
I ran a red light on my driving test because I thought it would stay yellow for longer. I did not pass my drivers test that day 💀
Rotten luck 😂
They hate going through yellow unless your actually in the spot for it. No speeding up to make it. 😢
@@jacklansdale77I made this mistake when I drove with my mom. Nearly gave her a heart attack (to be fair though I had seen my dad do it in his truck when at the same distance and kinda forgot for a second that my moms car was smaller and could stop faster )
I drove into a ditch! I did not pass. I did get my license about a year later, and I drive now professionally. It worked out. 😂
Failed my first driving test, I’d been driving my mom’s car while practicing, had to drive my dad’s car, a massive ‘53 Buick. I didn’t do well with the Buick. The examiner told me to turn around and head back toward where we had started. I made a U-turn, not a required K-turn, something I’d never practiced.
When I was a kid, my mom used to explain what she was doing as she drove the family car, so that driving would come more naturally for me when I was older. She'd explain what even the most obscure road signs meant, and point out potential hazards as she noticed them (kids playing, debris on the road, blind hills, etc.) It made our drives more interesting, and when it came time for me to learn, all I had to do was to get a feel for the car's physical controls. I've been driving for 24 years now, and have only had one accident (a texting teenager rolled into me as I was waiting my turn at a stop sign.) Thanks, Mom!
I highly recommend y'all do this for your own kids, if kids nowadays aren't just playing with their phones in the car 100% of the time.
I took my test the first time in my friend's dad's car. The shifter would stick and I was trying my best to switch it into drive and the guy started screaming at me causing me to start shaking. Finally get moving. Did everything else OK but when I did hand over hand and during the k turn he yelled at me again making me shake more. Made me go back to the lot and I barely parked the car in the spot. Anyone in jersey up for your road test, stay away from cheeryhill. They are assholes. Salem is the best. I was pregnant with my oldest and the lady was very sweet. I could barely see over the wheel and you're not supposed to sit close to it. I had done my back up straight, k turn and parallel park. Before we got on the road she asked me to park. I said ok. She asked if I could see clearly over the wheel(this wheel was no adjustable like some). We both tried and looked for a way to move it. She told me to move the seat a little closer and readjust my mirrors and all. Then on the road to finish my test. She said she was surprised I was able to do the first half without being able to see fully. My friend who's car I had used said she got worried and scared when she saw I had parked in between. She thought I got in trouble or got upset or something. But knew all was well when she saw us move again. Lady, I may have forgotten your name and face, but not you and you were a blessing and helped boost my confidence
Took mine in bakers basin. Was awesome
The first time I took the test (16), my tester told me that my driving was so bad that the only thing that stressed him out more was his divorce. I passed the second time 5 years later, only after I accidentally scared the holy bejeezus out of the examiner when I hit the volume button to full on the stereo and blasted the first part down with the sickness.
I learned first with a manual. My mom has this antique car with the made to last bumpers so she figured it wouldn't get damaged compared to the minivan. She was right. First time I used an automatic was for my driving test and it was scary to me how easy it was to drive. Automatic are just easy mode which might be why even people that shouldn't really be driving can drive one.
7:21
Dude!
If you can drive a manual, you can drive automatic without needing ANY extra knowledge!
But if you drive automatic, and use a manual for the first time, there's a super high chance you destroy the car!
(If you try to start in any other gear than the first, you can destroy those!)
Nah you'll just stall it, no biggie.
Slamming it in to 2nd gear when you meant to pick 6th gear on the other hand could get pretty expensive.
@@ric84 fair
Many years ago, an American hired a car at London, Heathrow to drive to Bristol. I guess she didn't realise most cars in the UK are manual transmission. They drove all the way to Bristol in 1st gear - this made BBC News. I shudder when I think of them driving down the M4 (70 mph limit Interstate) at 20mph with a screaming engine.
Classic "not following the prompt" here, but I've got a story.
I took my school's drivers ed class during the summer a couple years ago, and the instructor was AWFUL. Constantly yelling and berating students. We would be taught for 2 weeks, drive for 3 days, and boom. You now have the paperwork needed for a permit.
On my final day of driving, my teacher had me drive through a tourist village area. To get back onto the main road, there was a ramp off with a stop sign. I was nervous as hell and slowly rolled past the stop sign to see if it was clear. The teacher SLAMMED on the brakes, turned to me and yelled "What the hell are you doing?! You could've gotten us killed! You're *gonna* get someone killed in the future if you do that!!"
So, being a nervous teenager wreck, I slowly drive back to the school with tears rolling down my face. Mind you, there was also another student in the car at the time. Didnt get in the driver's seat for months after that.
(Edit): to make it worse, halfway through the drive back, this woman had the AUDACITY to turn to me and ask "did I upset you?" AS I AM CRYING.
The instructor must have been new or something because it is common to have to roll past the stop sign, especially if something is blocking your view
@@green29373there’s a few roads in my town like that and you almost never see drivers ed cars on them except for maybe going in the opposite direction
Learning a manual first has its advantages. Prevents bad habits that an automatic allows, and if you ever need to drive a stick (like in an emergency), you have the ability.
It also teaches you some more about how the car works and how it will respond in different situations. And it's not much harder to learn that way - just have to take it a bit slower at the beginning to make sure you're good with shifting before doing more complicated maneuvers.
@@DanStaalI found the hardest part about learning stick is taking off from a dead stop on hills
I've had times when I was on a steep hill and even for an automatic, just switching from gas to break was a bit of a manuver to avoid rolling back into the car behind me. Not that tricky for an automatic, but I do think that having the training with a manual would be good before anyone gets in that situation regardless
I drove an old truck mostly when I was learning, but decided to use my mom's Audi sedan for the driving test since it was easier to parallel park. The truck used a foot pedal for the emergency brake, which I couldn't find in the Audi. I searched around and ended up popping the trunk. I had to get out to fix that, then found the brake between the two seats. I next had to go inside the DMV to ask my mom how to turn on the high beams since the truck used a button on the floor, not the Audi. My biggest mistake was crossing slightly into the opposite lane while finishing a left turn. The instructor gave me a ten minute lecture on that point. I completed the parallel parking test on the 2nd try, and the guy said I passed. I think he must have felt sorry for me, lol.
Every one of these types of subjects are chock full of “I’m not (Profession type) but…”
If there weren't there wouldn't be any posts. Sucks but it is what it is.
I got my license at 18 years old. I managed to pass the test my first try. My examiner said after the test to watch for trains because the lights for the tracks only turn on 30% of the time. He watched people get hit by trains growing up. Other than that, flying colors.
My dad was veeery lucky for his driver’s test. Apparently, way back when (around the Fifties/Sixties I think) I think State Troopers in my State were required to do the road test. My dad scheduled the road test and drove over to the Trooper’s house to start the test. Turns out, the Trooper was just about to have a big Thanksgiving Dinner with their family, and my dad just so happened to show up right when his family was about to eat. The Trooper looked at the Thanksgiving spread for his family, looked at my dad and his car, and asks my dad “You drove here, right? I’ll just ding you on a couple things and pass you.” My dad had the presence of mind to simply agree, got the required paperwork and came back home, and the Trooper had a great Thanksgiving dinner. He got his license without actually taking the test! He was a good driver before Parkinson’s and old age nerfed him.
The benefit to learning to drive a manual before an automatic is that you harness the full power of the learning curve. Learn the hard thing first, and then the easy thing will be a cake walk.
I've seen the same sort of thing advised for welding - learn arc/stick welding first, then MIG/MAG will seem easy by comparison.
But, I guess for anxious types learning the easy thing first might build confidence to transition to the harder thing afterwards.
I don't think people typically "transition" to manual i think most people drive automatic
@@thepinkestpigglet7529I learned stick second. Kinda prefer it over automatic but it’s easier to find automatics where I’m at
@@thepinkestpigglet7529younger people seem to being, many people I graduated with are wanting to learn manual now.
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I ran over the curb while I was testing. Freaking out so bad I forgot how to turn in reverse. The poor man who was testing me was so chill, gave me a pointer and passed me.
Bless you sir.
I first learned how to drive in the middle of winter, during a blizzard, in the dark, IN A MANUAL. Needless to say I’ve gotten really good at driving in snow.
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At 7:33
Manual vs automatic....
If you learn how to drive on a manual transmission, you can probably drive anything! If you learn how to drive on an automatic, you're pretty much handicapped for life!
That is what my dad used to tell me, and so far it's proved true. I was able to drive road graders with no explanation, a fire truck once when it was needed, every vehicle I've been in I could drive. The only other person that I met that could do that was my dad and my sister....she was taught the same way I was!
You always learn on a manual if you can, if you can't learn on a manual it's because you don't have one available....
My examiner told me: once a student was extremely stressed when he drived so started homeopathy to work against stress to pass the test.
He was supposed to take 1 pill per day max. Before the test he took all 20 of them to "be less stress".
He turned the car on waited for the first red light to go on... once it was green he floored it and went straight until the driving instructor stopped him. He was asleep completely drunk because "his homeopathy pills had alcohol" 🤯🤯
Spoiler he failed.
I remember when I came in for my testing, I was so nervous. Two people in front of me failed, and I looked at my dad and said, “I don’t think I can do this.”
Dad told me to suck it up, and I did the test and I passed maneuverability with flying colors, and passed well enough for the regular test. The tester said I passed, and I looked at him, and went “Huh?”
“You passed. Just don’t brake in front of the other cars so closely.”
I was so relieved! And my dad and mom were very happy for me.
First story is exactly why you wait to hear the end of something before actually using it
Passed my driving test on the first try, thanks to everyone before me failing to turn from the center turn lane. I rolled through a couple of stop signs, which should have failed me.
My mother was supposed to take me driving after I got my learners permit at 16. She would sit in the back seat and scream at me for doing the speed limit. She wanted me to drive 35 mph on the hy-way that was posted for 65 mph. She only took me out twice and refused to after that. My father just couldn't stand "kids getting independence". Years later my mother admitted she just didn't want me to ever have a drivers license. I am now 56 and have NEVER driven/had a license. She now mocks me for "not being smart enough to drive". I passed the written test on the first try, yeah totally not smart enough. I just needed to get some driving experience and I would have been fine. I hope she enjoys needing my younger sibling to take her everywhere since she is no longer safe to drive herself.
Driving tests can be full of surprises, from mistaken traffic laws to unexpected incidents like car fires in the middle of the exam.
I was the testee. My examiner had a trainee with him who had to get into the back seat of my car. Trainee tried to have me take off without him wearing a seatbelt. It’s technically legal for adults in the rear to not have to wear them in the state I was in (Iowa) but I’m very firm on my stance that *every single being* in my vehicle must be wearing at seatbelt for the duration of any car trip. Even animals. Guy was not pleased that I was forcing him to wear a seatbelt, but my examiner made sure he did and kept it on. I’m glad the examiner was on my side, because I was thinking I might have to refuse having the trainee in my car.
Not the examiner, but a driver taking the test. On my test for my G2, I turned left into a one way street and almost collided with a driver going the wrong way. I changed lanes to avoid the collision and because that’s what’s you’re supposed to do when turning left into a one way street. I passed with a 72, but I learned from my regular instructor that the other driver failed automatically!
It's so weird to me how the driving tests in the US sound like they're way easier than where I live (Israel), but people here still drive WAY worse. Instructors' cars here have a second set of pedals in the front passenger seat, and the same car you learned on will be used on a test. The instructor will use the pedals and move the steering wheel if you're about to do anything that'd fail you, and once that happens it counts as a near guaranteed fail. And somehow everyone still drives like their wife is giving birth in the backseat.
I have my second test soon. Failed the first one when I got stuck behind a truck, which was likely also on a test (or at least a lesson). The truck was going suuuper slow, so I check, go into the left lane, accelerate and see we're just about to enter a two-lane roundabout and I had to go straight. Now here if you're going right or straight, you're supposed to pass the roundabout via the right lane, which I had no room to return to before reaching the roundabout. I panic, check there's noone to rear end me, brake, and try to return to the right lane behind the truck. What I didn't notice was that in the meantime someone snuck into where I was behind the truck, and I would've hit them if the tester didn't move the steering wheel. Did everything else pretty well, failed. Honestly, it was due to stress, because the whole 10-15 minutes prior the tester was complaining about how slow I was going. Wish me luck.
I got an immediate promotion for being literally the only one there that knew how to drive stick
I passed first time at 29, wracked with anxiety and a nervous wreck. My instructor was stood outside the car while the examiner asked if I wanted my results right then or when I got out. My instructor was convinced I'd failed because all he saw was the guy talking and me crying 😂 and apparently "what, shit, really!? why?" isn't a reassuring answer to "you've passed"
From the other side, I was 16, my dad was an industrial chemical salesman. His territory was all of eastern Ontario. For a year once a week I would go out with him for a day and do the driving. That amounted to ~800km a day in hundreds of towns and various sized cities. I went to the testing center and got an old battle axe. I didn't make a single error, until she told me to park in a small spot. We were in a 77 Mercury Grand Marquis station wagon. The hood alone was 8 feet long, the entire car was longer than a full sized pickup truck.
The parking spot was shorter than the car! I told her that the spot was too short, she told me it was a fail if I couldn't park the car there. I touched the car behind and she had a HUGE shit eating grin and told me I had failed. We got out and with the rear bumper touching the car behind the front was still 5 feet ahead of the car in front. That was 35 dollars wasted when I was making 2.85$ an hour.
Two weeks later I was back and this time got someone reasonable. He asked what happened so I told him, we did a shortened test drive with 3 parallel parking spots. He then told me to head back. He said that the old crone failed every young guy, and was well known for it.
A few years later I was a mechanic at a dealership, and got to service her car. A few ball bearing in body panels and I got sweet revenge, even got to go on a test drive with her where I critiqued her driving and didn't hear a single rattle.
16:11 I'd guess that's the responsibility of the state DoT (department of transportation), of which the DMV is a component, which makes this even more confusing.
This is often true, but is not necessarily always true. There's a lot of roads that are under a city or county control (at least in my state according to a family member who's worked in a state DoT for decades).
The advantagees for learning a Manual over an automatic are,
A, Its a transferable skill , if u can drive manual you can drive auto,
B, in places where your view are everywhere E.G Usa, the chances of your vehicle being stolen are much lower,
C, You gain controll over your engine, this means that you contoll the torque, acceleration ext,
D, Reliability, if A CVT breaks then in some cases repairing it is more expensive than buying a new car a manual transmition is far cheeper and easier to replace
E, fuel efficiency, a Manual is more fuel efficient as less power is lost to friction ect,
F, you can drive any vehicle,
Also in case of accelerator failure you can force the car into neutral and have it basically unable to keep moving iirc.
E is only true for older vehicles. Today, with 7, 8, 9, and even 10-speed automatics, CVTs, and lock-up torque converters, manuals generally are less fuel-efficient than automatics. Then, just to make things more interesting, many automobiles these days have automated manual transmissions.
My daily driver is a 2013 Subaru Forester with the old fashioned clutch-pedal 5-speed manual transmission. Currently around 207,000 miles on the odometer. When the starter failed, I kept driving it to work daily. I shopped around for a new starter, ordered it, and kept driving it daily the couple days it took to come in. Bump-start and sloped parking lots FTW!
So i have a contribution to this: Back when I passed my drivers test in Kentucky, they put a little orange sticker on your permit to so show that you are allowed to drive without a license driver and to go to back to the DMV and get your intermediate license (basically a license showing you are underage (20 and below). Kentucky has 3 stages of licenses in different orientation when I lived there permit and intermediate were vertical oriented and full license is horizontal oriented which is to show you are 21 or over) but no one told me I need to go back to the DMV for the intermediate. So, when I moved to Michigan after graduating high school and went to the Secretary of State to migrate my license, I found out I had been driving with a permit FOR 3 YEARS and Michigan tried to get me to take another driving test which I had failed because I went slow over a 4 track railway crossing that was infamous in our town and was nicknamed "The Chiropractor's best friend" because the payment in-between the tracks was so rough from not being repaved for almost a decade. Thankfully by some fucked up chance I was called back to Kentucky for a funeral and got my intermediate just before the permit expired and was able to transfer my license no problem after that.
Day after getting my license, I drove without anybody else for the first time and got lost, ended up in a parking lot at the airport. I looked up directions, and was distracted and forgot to turn when pulling out, hitting another car.
First time I a car alone was a trip of 40km went well had my driving license for about three months by then though
Heard a story about how in the town just on the other side of the mountains from where I lived, the driving instructors would all have their students practice parallel parking on this one hill. One time, a examiner had their exam taker drive along the road when they got caught behind one of these cars trying to parallel park, which was taking a while. The examinee asked if they could just go around the student learner, for which the examiner said they couldn't give instructions. Examinee decided to try it, only to get an immediate fail because the dividing line was a solid double (if for some reason you don't have these, this means you cannot pass under any circumstances).
I used to live in that town before high school, and I hear it was one of the hardest districts on the island to do your driving exam in. Like I knew people who would drive to the big city center just to do their exam, and one of the on ramps there was from a stop to 50 in about the length of a football field. Mom never let me use that on ramp for the few months I was driving (I crashed dad's car into the cement wall that made up our car port after freaking out following a sudden dip. Totalled dad's car, haven't been behind the wheel in over 10 years. Thank god for public transit).
When I took my driving test, the lady took points off because I was driving too carefully. I wasn't going too slow or anything, or indicating improperly. She just thought I was being "too careful" (never could define anything specific I did). She even deducted points because I slowed down when a flock of birds, startled by something I didn't see, obscured my vision. She said you're supposed to speed up and hit the little ones. I got my license by one point.
I am from eastern Kentucky. My mom’s friend’s husband was a police officer. The police officer’s name was Nelson. So, officer Nelson was friends with the local driving instructor. The driving instructor taught at the high school and gave private lessons. Driving instructor told officer Nelson a story about a woman who was struggling to get her license. Driving instructor was giving a private lesson to the aforementioned woman. She was driving by a local school in the late spring. It was quite warm day and the school had the gym had its side doors open. The lady took a turn and drove straight through the gym with children playing inside.
I can relate to the one at 13:45. In the UK (mostly manual cars) and not on test but even before when I was practicing, my parents had bought a car for me, having taken it for a test drive before buying.
First time I drove it (and this might show just how old style this car was) the manual choke (usually needed to pull it to start the engine) jammed open, which, like the story here, meant it was just going full revs and power to the engine and was accelerating without me touching any pedals. Ended up getting a kind of patch fix by locking it to only open to a certain point and had the car for quite a while.
Story 61: re pulling away in second gear. It's actually recommended to use 2nd gear to pull away in snowy conditions (on the rare occasions we actually get snow on the UK).
What's probably never recommended is something I accidentally managed once (way after my test): pulling away in 3rd gear, while going uphill. The fact the car I was driving used diesel fuel rather than petrol undoubtedly helped, but I was surprised it managed it all the same (I honestly thought I'd put it in first gear, was wondering why it was a bit slow away, and realised when I went to change gear!)
In Germany, we got specific maneuvers we have to do during the final test.
One of them is Parallel Parking.
My Instructor decided I have to parallel Park in a Street small enough that with the car at a 45° angle, both my front left wheel and my rear right wheel hit the curb.
Thankfully, he recognized that and let me try once more on a bigger street.
Mine was more that I heard from someone else, but it slightly affected my first driving test.
A young lady who was in my senior calculus class had taken the test a few months before me. Where the test was held at, after showing that the car functions worked (brake lights, turn signals, 4-ways), then it would be drive around to where they did the parallel parking. In the front were 4 cones, and in the back was a dumpster on wheels. And you weren’t allowed to turn around to back in (which I found unacceptable due to being able to do that anywhere else). So as she was backing into the spot the first time, she went a little too fast, and knocked the rolling dumpster down the hill and almost into a creek. Needless to say, she failed first time (she did pass the 2nd time).
Meanwhile, my parents thought it would be a great idea for me to try in a full-sized van (you couldn’t even see the cones, so I had no idea where they were), and the a-hole driving instructor kept yelling at me to not turn around (I kept telling him I couldn’t see a gosh dang thing, including the dumpster, so his instructions meant nothing, so I had to turn around). He failed me and I was just short of seething 😡. The second time I passed, although I surprisingly didn’t have to worry about driving on the highway.
When I was 17, I had already been driving for over 18 months, including private classes and summer school. I had been dragging my feet to get my license, but needed it before driving to college that fall. It was a 6-8 week wait for a test appointment and the only test I could get was a few days before I was to leave for college. I ended up so sick that day that I could barely keep my eyes open and had trouble even sitting up. There was no way to reschedule it that late, so I HAD to at least attempt it. I think I terrorized the tester, as he was rather snarky handing me off to my mother at the end. I still had my learner's permit, but that wasn't technically legal out of state. I had to drive, anyway, as dad was out of town and my mother got too sick to drive, herself. After the first day, my father flew to meet us and drive us the rest of the way. The following summer, I had no problem passing the test.
I took my drivers test so incredibly pregnant that the poor guy looked more nervous than me. I was in a small city that I wasn’t familiar with in order to take the test before having my baby so that didn’t help. I am pretty short and the vehicle I took the test in was pretty big so I had tied wood to the pedals so I could reach them since my belly made it impossible to adjust the seat closer. Dude was tense and had us go back after a block, 2 minutes of driving time. I thought it was a fail and hormones suck so I obviously snot cried, ate a muffin while crying and waddled away. He comes over and handed me my permit! He said he was too nervous that I’d go into labour so to avoid causing me stress he took my down the fast check road. Reverse out of parking spot, Left turn, bike lane, school zone, stop sign, parking and super busy traffic… it back fired. I was super stressed but unfortunately still went way over my due date.
In my country most driving schools don't let you do the driving test in your own car for insurance reasons.
Not only is it illegal to drive without glasses if your sight is below a certain threshold, you're also required to have spares in the car.
Running a stop sign will not only fail you immediately, you will also lose your license if the police catches you.
Also, drivers license used to be valid forever, but they changed it to 15 years some time ago, and retroactively, so even licenses that were printed before that will expire eventually. There's a deadline, but the older licenses have a little longer so they all don't expire at the same time. This is also so people have to get new photos taken, but mainly to get dangerous drivers off the road before something happens.
Anyway, my driving test went pretty uneventful. I was doing the "christmas exam", which meant, everyone was huddled up in the warm shelter while I was doing the course and the school truck was parked in the middle of the course, so the examiner couldn't even see what I was doing, which was good, because I touched the rail (they use a sideways train rail instead of a real curb, so you don't damage the rims) in the parallel parking spot and used the sensors for the reverse parking spot xD. I also had to ask before I started, how the reverse worked on the car, because it was an Alfa and I had only driven VWs before, which worked completely differently (school car was a horrible Golf 5 and I owned a Lupo by that point). After everyone got through the course, we all got into different school cars and I was instructed to follow the school truck, which meant going only a pleasant 45km/h in the 50 zone and I only got points deducted for trying to srart in second gear once and following the truck over the truck lane in a roundabout (which is there to give trucks more space, you're not allowed to use it in a normal car), but the examiner said, that often happens if you're just following and it's fine. I got really lucky, because that parallel parking would've probably failed me. To this day I never actually managed to park at the curb in one try, however I'm quite adept at reverse parking and my car has a rear view camera, so that's my favorite way to park now. Nowadays I drive a 150hp Skoda Scala TSI and I love it
As a driving student in segment 1 of road training (not the actual road test) my instructor only needed to grab the wheel twice. Once about a minute into driving on the road for the first time I nearly drifted off the road. Another time I had the sun in my eyes going into an extremely busy traffic circle. During my actual road test everything went really well (except for parallel parking) and I passed on my first attempt.
Mine was with an old skinny guy who literally yelled at the the entire time, "WATCH YOUR SPEED WATCH YOUR SPEED" when i was going like 2 over and no one was around, yelling about how long i waited at stop signs(too long apparently), and at the end we got out, he smiled, said hey man tou did perfect, good job.
I was a nervous wreck after that shit, my own parents werent that nuts on my first drive.
When I went to take my test the instructor started off with checking my blinkers, headlights, brights, hand break, etc. The thing was the car I was using for the test I had never touched before (I learned to drive using my mom's car and this car was one they got for me a little bit before I took the test). So everytime he asked me to do something I just stared blankly at hime and was like "uhh, idk where that is." Idk if he graded that part or just wanted to make sure the car worked, but somehow I did pass
I learned the manual first, and on the way home from the 'paper test' (before they give you the permit to actually get behind the wheel) and I did stall on railroad tracks, but tbf, I was trying to start in 3rd gear and the railroad tracks were decommissioned. My dad was the most chill instructor I ever could have had, and I'm still able to drive manual better than my other siblings.
In some places, if you're over a certain age, they might not even give you a road test. By the time I actually _needed_ to get my license, I was over that age but opted to do a road test anyway, because I could do that _or_ wait for a written test computer to open up and I didn't want to be there all day while senior citizens brushed up on road rules to get discounts on their insurance. I could not parallel park for the life of me. I could 90degree back in like nobody's business. On the test itself, I failed the 90degree back in and nailed the parallel parking. This didn't automatically fail me, and the instructor just seemed relieved he wasn't in the car with a nervous teenager for a change.
Its not a driving test story but i love any excuse to tell this story. My driving instructor told me and the other teenager (idk how it works everywhere but at my school we went out in pairs and we would switch off halfway through the period) this story and it kills me every time.
So, its like halfway through the semester and everyone is fairly comfortable with driving. Hes out with a boy and a bigger girl. The girl was driving first and he tells her to pull over to switch drivers so she does but she forgets to put the car in park and gets out. Theres no danger of hitting anything or getting hit so instead of using his break (he had a break peddle built into his side in case anyone did anything super stupid, or he wanted to fck with us once we were fully comfident) he just lets the car slowly start to roll forward down the gentle hill. The girl isnt looking at the car at first and apparently didnt notice it rolling away until it was already a couple of yards down at which point she turned around and fully panicked. She starts running as fast as she can down the hill after this very slowly moving car and for some reason when she got to it she jumped onto the trunk and grabbed on to try to stop it that way. The car is front wheel drive and apparently she weighed enough to pick the wheels up off the ground enough that the breaks werent working fully so theyre all just kinda slowly sliding down this hill now and shes just getting dragged at like 5mph until she finally lost her grip and fell off and the instructor was able to stop the car at which point she got up and promoptly ran into the car expecting it to still be rolling. Meanwhile the kid in the back is absolutely dying of laughter and yelling "i think i peed, i think i peed!"
Everyone was ok in the end and i was told this story while he was explaining to me that i shouldnt sit on the left side in the back of the car XD. I have no idea how true any of that was but there was indeed a stain in the backseat that couldve been pee (or just water)
When I was taking my driver’s test, the driver’s seat was broken. My instructor said she would fix it later. I couldn’t move the seat close enough for me to reach the brake. Miraculously I was able to drive safely (stretching my leg to reach the brake) and pass my test.
Reaction to story 5: i do so love my Citroen C5 with hydraulic suspension. 'Oh, a curb is too high? Let me just hit one particular button a wait a bit as my whole car goes up'
12:03 This had me dying 😂
"What are you doing?"
"What do you mean?"
My brother was a school bus mechanic. He told us the story of how a new hire got the side of his bus stuck on the highway barrier while making a turn and kept going. It pulled the side of the bus off like a tuna can. I have no idea if there were kids on the bus.
My first time taking my test, i had been driving with my adult learners permit for a while. I had not practiced backing straight for any significant distance so when the first thing i had to do was go straight back a couple feet, i automatically did what i normally do when backing out of a parking space, hit a tall bright yellow pole, and popped my tire up onto the curb. We just kinda sat there for a second before the examiner said, "so im gonna need you to pull forward a little and im sure you understand but i have to fail you." I couldnt even get upset. I was just like, ye thats fair, and went to give the keys back to my dad.
Second time went waaaay better. Worst thing is i did not complete parallel parking but that was a minor deduction, and i was told to do a lane change on a steep hill. I check like im supposed to and theres only one car in the lane i need to be a good distance away which should be a problem if theyre going the speed limit. I start to get over and find out that the jerk is not going the speed limit, they are flying down this hill. They do a lane change to avoid us with no blinker and no breaks whatsoever, nearly clipping us. All i can do is apologize to the examiner and she assured me that she saw that too and i wasnt at fault. Passed that time.
I had my first accident during my first drivers test. We just got on the main road, a truck plowed into me. I froze when the truck driver yelled at me. The drive tester got out and talked to the guy. I could barely process what happened and had no idea what to do. Luckily, I had the drive tester with me. He told me everything I needed to do and he was my credible witness to prove it wasn't mu fault. I was rear ended so that's almost automatically not my fault but it was nice to have someone there to figuratively hold my hand through it. The real horror of that incident is that it's the beginning of people hitting my car. In less than 4 years, i got hit 3 times, and none of them were my fault. Luckily, my insurance didn't go up because of it. Still 3 times!!!
In UK, you can only drive a manual if you pass your test in one. Also, manual cars give you more control over your engine, braking, and when really low revs, low speed is needed ie driving on ice. You also cannot jump start an automatic.
About fourty years ago I had gotten confused between the pedals and drove up onto the sidewalk. From that moment on I use both of my feet to drive with manual and automatic. Years later I had locked my keys in the car. From that moment on I use the key to lock the car. Both mistakes were a one-time only.
I’m planning on taking my driving test in August so this is making me feel so much better about my own driving skills
Taught my wife, children and grandson how to drive using a manual transmission before they were allowed to use an automatic. Never know when the big one comes and only vehicles built before 1972 are the only ones working. Just a note, my wife had driven only vehicles with automatic transmissions before we were married.
not a tester, i was taking the test. drove around for 30 mins on the last part i drove past a school zone.
I slowed down as required, but the guy behind me did not, he sped up and overtook me.
The tester rolled down the window and started yelling at the guy, went completely off his nut.
Get back to the RMV and i get a pass, not because i was a good driver, not due to the 200 hrs of prep work i put in, no i got a pass because he couldn't afford another write up
As far as I know, I made two mistakes during my driving test: Failing to use my blinker when merging for a right lane ending, and being apparently too slow when an ambulance went by... but the second wasn't part of the test so the instructor didn't count it lmao
About story 75, when my wife was in med school in the geriatric unit they were told that the three things that really upset guys as they aged were 1. Have to quit driving. 2. Losing the ability to take care of the house and yard. And 3. Losing their sex drive. So yeah, not driving is a big deal for someone who is used to driving themselves around.
Hear this story from my Driving Instructor.
So he had a student that would have a habit of pulling out of stops in 3rd gear that he was trying to get her to stop doing. She got to her test and FAILED because she tried to pull out onto a roundabout in 3rd gear instead of 1st. It was a while before he found out why she had failed.
I, personally, have not had very many big driving errors and my instructor says I'm really good with parking (literally called me a parking queen as I didn't need much instruction to do it. I just lax on observation. I'm brilliant at my manovers XD)
During a test, my friends brother missed and exit on a roundabout and proceeded to drive backwards
The reason to go manual before automatic is so that you can drive both as soon as you can drive and don't have to go for more lessons after learning, it also comes more naturally when you are first learning than after you have already learned
Crazy. I drove 1.5 years before getting my license and passed with near 100% score. Been driving for 7 years will only one close call and one idiot pulling parallel across the entire road to get to the turn lane.
I passed my second attempt, but my first was horrific. I had really, REALLY bad nerves during the test, and when I was told to get into the left lane, someone cut me off, and I just froze at a green light. People were honking at me and I was panicking really bad. That was embarrassing…
Now i'm no instructor, but I bet the reason why you learn in a manual is because it also teaches you multi tasking. In an automatic you shift into drive and then never take your hands off the wheel again, in a manual you're constantly shifting, thus learning to use your hands and feet seperately even more. Also teaches you about engine RPM: gotta know at what RPM its best to up or down shift, y'know?
Also, its just better. If you can drive a manual you can drive an auto, but not vice versa. So many cars get broken into but never move because they're manuals and the thieves only know how to drive automatics.
Somewhat related funny story when I did my exam. The place I went to was notorious for being difficult. To the point where it was common to go to the adjacent county to do the test. But I ignored them cause I had confidence in my driving. Well… The driving test guy failed two people right before I went. Like they didn’t even get to the road portion. But the other part had lines and stuff for parking/stopping/etc. So obviously that made me nervous. When it was my turn the dude deadpan looks at me and says “Last two people drove on the wrong side of the road… they’d of turned me to a pancake if I let them on the road. Don’t. Do. That.” It was hilarious and I passed.
it’s wild to me that some places do driving tests on actual an actual road. i understand why it could be good/makes sense but they stories with the accidents make it seem like the cons outweigh the pros
Pretty common here in the US.
I was given a military driver license and then took it to the TX DMV and they handed me a state license. Never took a written or road test.
Story 5: Did that but it was a wooden barrier in an empty church parking lot. Dad was teaching me to park and I made the rookie mistake of using the gas pedal instead of the brake. Accelerated right over the wood and caught an exposed construction wire into the little plastic barrier under the front bumper of the car. The crack and hole are still there almost six years later.
During driver's ed in HS I was always paired with the same classmate. I usually drove the first half of study hall period and he drove back. In the early 80s audio systems didn't much exist. So I brought my boombox. While he drove I played AC/DC Highway to Hell. He never forgot that and we laugh about it at every class reunion.
My first test I went the wrong way. Must have been nerves or something, because I swear I heard the guy say "right" when he wanted me to go left.
The freezing girl that seems more like a suicide attempt. Never stop on the tracks and if you do get your ass out the car immediately.
When I was in CDL school someone took out multiple cones with the trailer, then let the trailer off track partially into a ditch. He didn't complete the course.
Story 79, either OP was in the pickup truck with nothing in the bed to weigh it down or a car with a light backend with nothing in the trunk. It'll make you slide around in snow without the weight.
Taking my driving lessons rn and I’m TERRIFIED to be one of these people😭 Thing is I’m doing great, my instructor is fantastic and has nothing but praise for me at the end of every lesson, alongside my goals and things to work on next time. But the fact that it only takes one wrong move to seriously injure or kill someone is part of the reason its taken me 5 years to even consider starting lessons lmao.
I was failed my first time for "not looking both ways and pulling out into traffic." She must have dozed off because I definitely could see despite it raining, being on an uphill turn, and people turning left who would keep pulling up past me so I couldn't see. I finally had enough and pulled up more before looking again and went. She argued I didn't look and just went. Didn't argue just said okay, rolled my eyes, and came back a week later to pass
16:22 it would be department of transit, or the county, depending on the location. You’d find the tag on the back and might be able to call in a complaint about an obstructed sign, most have a tag on them for reporting a downed sign or such. Or could even just call in where it is and should be sorted.
I lost points because I used my mirrors backing up..... Instead of looking over my shoulder.
You couldnt see out of the back window of the hatchback....
My driver’s test… I was 21, it took 3 tries. First one I didn’t make it out of the lot, failed on the parallel parking section by being slightly out of the designated spot. Second one I failed because of one single thing: I didn’t stop long enough at a nearly hidden stop sign before a turn. Third try I stopped and waited a full second at that stop sign, and passed. My pride at getting my license beamed through in that photo and I shall miss it (got to keep it longer due to COVID regulations).
30:08 I've only driven a manual car, so this is what I do: sit down, put on seat belt, adjust seat and mirrors (if necessary), press the break and clutch pedal, release the parking break, move the stick to neutral (some use gear as an alternative for the parking break), start the car, then shift to 1st or reverse (depending on how the car is parked), then check my mirrors and windows for pedestrians and traffic. Once clear, I gently let up the clutch pedal to start my journey. Did I answer the question correctly?
18:44 - This is true. Living in Brampton, Ontario for a quarter century confirms this. Highest insurance in all of Ontario, for that very reason. Facts.
My wife's nephew had to do a drivers exam. Halfway through there was a truck or bus blocking the road.
After they waited for a bit the examiner told him to pass the truck by driving over the grass, it's fine.
He does and continues the exam.
Later learned he failed because he went off the road and drove over grass. Couldnt do anything about it.
When I did my test, I drove it in a hand-me-down Ford F250 that my dad used to drive, and it was so outdated and bulky my examiner took pity on me for the parallel park. I didn't have to even do it well, I just had to demonstrate I knew the proper steps. Didn't get marked down on hitting the cones because there was literally no way I could see them at parallel parking angles. The reat of the test was very smooth, and I passed with flying colors. Now I drive a Ford Edge I purchased from my grandparents' estate (my mom was the executor of the estate and for legal reasons I was not allowed to be given the car without express consent from my still-living grandparents at the time, who were senile and one of them having the onset of dimentia, thus no legally permissible way of consent. I had to buy it from my mom with a loan at a near-market rate, though thankfully the courts didn't require interest.)
Got my MC license when i was 18. Been riding since i was 7. Borrowed best friend's bike and rode it to the exam facility. Examiner was on lunch. Rode back an hour later, took the test, passed. As I'm getting new license with new MC classification, one of the women asked if i rode the bike there. I said No it was my best friend and poeple say we look so much alike we could twins. He's e years older than I. I didn't have a learner's permit for riding the bike so it was technically illegal for me to have ridden the bike there as i wasn't officially, legally able to. Don't know if she bought my sstory but she didn't say anything and i was able to legally ride away.
It was not unusual when I was a teen for drivers to fail their driving test, go straight away to the next town over and retake the test there at that office. It wasnt all electronic then and your failure result wasnt entered into the computer system until the end of the day
My driving test horror story:
I live in the US. It’s common for people to get their license to drive at 16. I was 18 when I took the first test because I had crippling anxiety about driving but finally got it together enough to drive. The test examiner was really cool. He made jokes and had a good attitude. I was still hella anxious though. I knew I made mistakes but thought that maybe I passed. The instructor was talking to my dad and I that I failed. He then listed off all these things I did wrong. And I just broke. All that anxiety and tension and I just started to sob. Not little tears but I couldn’t stop face streaming. And the intructor just looked so startled and sad and pitied me and so did my dad…. Hahahaha I was beyong moritified. I didn’t want to cry but I couldn’t stop. My dad quickly got me out of there and we had the longest most awkward car ride home as I tried to gather myself. Now enough time has passed where its funny but I just wanted to die right then.
40:19 If this was in Europe (or at least some parts) The driving instructor and the polcie officer are NOT required to wear a seatbelt. You should tell them that everyone should buckle up, but then if they dont you are supposed to ignore it because they dont have to.