Yeah but that doesn't mean much. In high school I knew a kid who failed his written portion of the driving test the first time. When I asked him how he said he got really hung up on one question. The question was "what do you do when you drive by the exit you needed to take on the freeway." This is multiple choice and he chose "pull into the shoulder to back up down the freeway to get back to the exit".

He didn't understand why that was the wrong answer and was sure the test was wrong. So he figured he'd just answer the way the test wanted to next time even though he knows he'd just back up down the shoulder. And that's exactly what he did a few weeks later, apparently, because he proudly showed off his license after finally getting it.

So he's still out there driving around as far as I know. I definitely didn't keep in contact with him for hopefully obvious reasons so maybe he drove off a bridge or something already idk

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago

I'd like to mention here Germany, where I live, has rather more stringend theoretical and practical driving exams and it also doesn't matter because the common consensus for most of the rules here is that you only have to know them for the theoretical test, follow them for the practical driving exam and then who cares there's basically 0 traffic enforcement, it's all a great big ploy against the average man and even if you do get caught the punishment is a pittance anyways. You can tell the judge you hallucinated the light being green and kill a child and not even lose your drivers license over that.

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