• baines@lemmy.cafe
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          6 days ago

          which was the point?

          uk driving school takes itself seriously

          I can understand maybe being confused by my comment but my other 2 in this thread right below would have cleared it up

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            6 days ago

            I don’t mean to sound like a cock, but why should I search through all the comments to find a comment making your original comment clearer, which may or may not be there? No, it didn’t make it clearer.

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        What’s the connection to someone struggling to learn to drive?

        Because that’s what I see, and frankly don’t understand it. Today’s cars are tremendously easier to drive than what I learned on, and you should see what my parents had to do to pass their tests, driving manual transmissions without synchronizers, having to start on a hill - smoothly, etc.

        All I see here is someone who finds driving particularly difficult, like I find math particularly difficult, or some people find spelling or grammar particularly difficult.

        If anything, I give OP credit for sticking with it and not giving up, despite the cost. It’s really hard to keep trying when it feels like you’re just always struggling.

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          if only automatic transmissions made people know and obey traffic laws, not run red lights or drive drunk

          but my point was about the weakly enforced education component and how relatively easy it is to get a license in the US

          so even if he struggled the fact he was required to show minimum competence instead of simply processed through is my point

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            In the UK, you need to show quite a bit of competence to pass. One of the hardest tests in the world.

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              yep but we Americans get mad when told we are not exceptional and our drivers are under trained

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        You make it sound free lol. I definitely would love to make it harder to get a license In the USA, but you have to learn, get a permit, drive with an adult for six months, pass at least one written and one driven test. Spending 5200£ is fucking ludicrous. No test should be that hard

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          i watched a guy have his mom basically do his eye exam for him when i was waiting for a renewal once my belief on the dmv sticking to the rules is low

          no test should be that expensive but it for sure should be that hard as driving kills so many people

          it’s pretty common to have part of the requirement be drivers ed in schools around here and the stories i hear from extended family are crazy

          that also ignores issues like the elderly as well, 72 year old lady ran a red light t boned my mom, totaled my mazda truck to where the wheel came off 40+ through a red light no breaks, shed had her lawyer on speed dial he beat the ambulance there, this was her second one that month (no charges)

          the us is so car dependent and so lacking in mass transportation that we let almost anyone drive

          how many dui repeats on the road? hint its real bad