Story time:
The first time I took my driving test, the evaluator said ‘pull out of your parking space’, which I did very precisely, stopping at the street where the test started.
Then he said ‘turn right at this street’, so I did – and made the semi-truck coming down that road lay on his horn a bounce a bit to avoid hitting me. I failed before we even started.
I was so focussed on his instructions that I lost all situational awareness.
I took more classes, then spent a few years as a delivery driver, so I actually learnt to be a very good driver. But my first test was abysmal.
What is up with these AI generated “screenshots”? The smileys and avatars are all mangled. Is nothing holy to the slop generators?
Every comment has the exact same tone too
I got my license at the sweet young of age of 38. A year or two later, I got a job at the dmv. Everything in that post, and a lot of these comments, are fucking hilarious AND relatable.
As i tell people all the time, stay with it, your gonna get your license. (Ok some people I do tell them how to get a bus pass, but thats few and far between)
I was so focussed on his instructions that I lost all situational awareness.
I assume this is how most people that fail a driving test do it because of this. My driving instructor would try to tell me to turn against a forbidden sign, or tell me to drive forward when the light just turned red to completely kill the instinct to follow instructions without paying attention.
As for the examples in the screenshot, the one that shouted at the pedestrian sounds like a peach of a person. /s
or tell me to drive forward when the light just turned red to completely kill the instinct to follow instructions without paying attention.
That’s exactly what signals, rules, and road signs are: instructions without context. Driving on roads with 2-way stops I’ve almost hit vehicles multiple times. People pull up to the stop sign, come to a full stop, then proceed into the intersection, no matter what the situation is. I swear, so many drivers just turn off their brains to current conditions when driving…
Yeah, that one needs to learn to control their emotions.
I’ve literally been a rocket scientist and then somebody asks my name and I can’t fucking remember.
Sometimes being put on the spot throws you off your game.
High school driver’s ed. I’m behind the wheel of a 1985 Ford Tempo, instructor next to me, two other kids in the back. Instructor is giving me turn by turn where to go.
I suss out pretty quickly that he’s taking us to The Rickety Bridge. My dad used to drive us over it all the time. This was a very long one lane bridge over a huge railroad siding, with a steep ramp up to it and a steep ramp down. The bridge surface was loose railroad ties. There were no guardrails. You couldn’t actually see the bridge on the approach.
*Okay, turn right." Yup, there it is. I hit that fucker at 30 MPH. The instructor had one hand on the roof, the other on the dash, and both feet jammed to the floor. He must have forgotten he had a brake pedal over there. The kids in the back were somehow both entirely on the floor. It was a good thirty seconds before we came down the other side.
“Which way did you want me to turn now?”
It was another kid’s turn at that point.
If you think this kind of thing is bad, you should have seen some of the turkeys who showed up in my group when I took my MSF course way back when. If you think a lot of people shouldn’t be driving cars, I suspect even more of them have no business being on a motorcycle.
I think you misunderstand me.I wasn’t saying people shouldn’t be driving cars – we should learn to do as much as we cane can.
My point was that many of us start this ‘clueless’, but with support and humour we learn from each other.
During my driving exam, I lost all references of left and right. Twice, the instructor asked me to turn right. Twice, I turned left instead. The turn time, they asked to “finally turn right” and that’s when I was able to remember where right was. Still passed the test, because the actual driving was fine
I came up to the first intersection, and an ambulance passed through the intersection. I paused, looked left, looked right, and once I determined it was clear I started up again. At the same time as a truck started on my left. The instructor slammed the brake, and I failed before the first instruction.
Where meme though?
I saw the screenshot on a meme site, so, meme? Whatever their definition of memes was, I am no meme expert.
No. Is a screenshot of a news article a meme when it gets posted to a meme site?
A meme requires recontextualization in some way.
Didn’t I do that?
Like the poster contextualised those posts, then I did a bit more? Or WDYM?
No, there is nothing that puts those post in a new context, nothing that twists or turns the meaning of the posts, no new perspective. There is only more of the same context added.
Sorry, this seemed to fit as well as many things posted here. Noted.
I think it’s hilarious that so many seem to fail the test now days. Does high school not require driver’s ed class anymore?
When I was a teen in the 80s, everyone got their licence at 16, some got a learner’s permit before that. Even kids whose parent’s didn’t allow them to drive still got it. Failing was unthinkable! You friends would have never let you live it down. Also, it wasn’t easy to retest, had to wait a couple of weeks. I think I knew one person that had to take it again.
Then ya got my young friend I taught to drive getting his license at 21. He failed twice in a row and Florida just lets you try again the next day. You don’t even have to leave the parking lot! One failed test was for not using turns signals because he thought they weren’t required in a parking lot. 🙄 And that’s after I lectured him to never miss on that.
The driving test has gotten significantly more difficult in many places in the U.S. because of teen deaths in auto accidents. My kids had a lot more required training than I ever did.
However, it depends on what country you are in. When I got my license in the U.K. close to 30 years ago, I had been driving in the U.S. for 6 years and driven close to 100K miles. I had been told it was more difficult so I signed up for some lessons. I took me 10 lessons before the instructor said I should attempt it. I still failed the first attempt but managed to pass on the second (fucking backing around a corner bullshit).
What was funny was I was legally allowed to drive with my U.S. license while I was working on passing my U.K. one. I drove myself to the test and back, including after I failed the test.
I was a teen in the 90s and high school did not require drivers ed. It was required if you wanted to get a license but it was summer school, and not everyone got their license. For reference, I grew up in a major metropolitan area.
I think we just hear about it more now, because people post stories they only told to a few people in the 80s.
For instance, I turn 55 this month and I failed horribly at first, but you’ve never heard of me.
Don’t have a drivers license and never thought about getting one (due to health issues, not because of not needing it) but I watch a lot of them dash cam videos and oh boy there are so many people on the road you wouldn’t trust being able to tie their own shoelaces it’s frightening.
dude in the pic who crashed and fainted during his test has me crying right now tho :D
