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The testing center had their own car? Is this standard in Spain/Europe? I had to pay an instructor with a car to drive me to the testing center and let me use h

by aianus 9y ago

The testing center had their own car? Is this standard in Spain/Europe? I had to pay an instructor with a car to drive me to the testing center and let me use his car for the test while he waited around.

Double_a_92 9y ago
It's like your experience in Switzerland.
JorgeGT 9y ago
This is the standard in Spain. It is so because the learning car has a double set of pedals so the instructor can operate them if the student messes up: https://img.milanuncios.com/fg/2560/05/256005093_7.jpg https://img.milanuncios.com/fg/2560/05/256005093_7.jpg In Spain you usually enroll in a driving school where you have theoretical lessons (there's a theoretical exam that you must pass) and then they give you driving lessons with their adapted car. When you're ready an official from the corresponding ministry joins you and your instructor one day for a practical test on the street/highway.
- mamon 9y ago
  It is exactly the same way in Poland - second set of pedals for the instructor. You are supposed to do your whole course and exam in such an adapted car.
- closeparen 9y ago
  In the US, teenagers need to log tens/hundreds of hours driving under their parents’s supervision (on a learner’s permit) between the instructor driving sessions and the official road test. Do you really go straight from driving school to road test with no learner’s permit phase?
  - aianus 9y ago
    You need to log the hours in the US, really? In Canada I just did 4 hours with an instructor and then went for the test and bought a car. Most people drive around with their parents for 8 months on a permit but you don't have to log anything or prove that you did it, you're just not allowed to drive by yourself.
  - dragonwriter 9y ago
    > In the US, teenagers need to log tens/hundreds of hours driving under their parents’s supervision (on a learner’s permit) between the instructor driving sessions and the official road test. There is no US rule and the state rules vary considerably, many states have no logged practice hours requirement, and it doesn't doesn't seem like any are in hundreds of hours; I think 65 is the maximum and most with a requirement are 50 or less.
dEnigma 9y ago
In Austria all the driving schools I've seen so far have their own branded cars. I'm pretty sure I also took the test in one of the driving school's cars, since they had their own test course right next to the school, and it was all paid in one package (theoretical and driving lessons, written and practical test).
oblio 9y ago
Based on other comments and my experience in Romania/Luxembourg/France, it seems to be like this in Europe.
mantas 9y ago
In Lithuania/Europe, testing center provides standardised car for the exam. You're not allowed to take test in anything but provided vehicle. Which is clearly marked and equipped with extra mirror/brake for examinator. Driving schools have their own vehicles as well. Big part of their fleets is usually same as exam vehicles so you could get used to those.

by aianus 9y ago

Double_a_92 9y ago

It's like your experience in Switzerland.

JorgeGT 9y ago

This is the standard in Spain. It is so because the learning car has a double set of pedals so the instructor can operate them if the student messes up: https://img.milanuncios.com/fg/2560/05/256005093_7.jpg https://img.milanuncios.com/fg/2560/05/256005093_7.jpg In Spain you usually enroll in a driving school where you have theoretical lessons (there's a theoretical exam that you must pass) and then they give you driving lessons with their adapted car. When you're ready an official from the corresponding ministry joins you and your instructor one day for a practical test on the street/highway.

mamon 9y ago
It is exactly the same way in Poland - second set of pedals for the instructor. You are supposed to do your whole course and exam in such an adapted car.
closeparen 9y ago
In the US, teenagers need to log tens/hundreds of hours driving under their parents’s supervision (on a learner’s permit) between the instructor driving sessions and the official road test. Do you really go straight from driving school to road test with no learner’s permit phase?
- aianus 9y ago
  You need to log the hours in the US, really? In Canada I just did 4 hours with an instructor and then went for the test and bought a car. Most people drive around with their parents for 8 months on a permit but you don't have to log anything or prove that you did it, you're just not allowed to drive by yourself.
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  > In the US, teenagers need to log tens/hundreds of hours driving under their parents’s supervision (on a learner’s permit) between the instructor driving sessions and the official road test. There is no US rule and the state rules vary considerably, many states have no logged practice hours requirement, and it doesn't doesn't seem like any are in hundreds of hours; I think 65 is the maximum and most with a requirement are 50 or less.

dEnigma 9y ago

In Austria all the driving schools I've seen so far have their own branded cars. I'm pretty sure I also took the test in one of the driving school's cars, since they had their own test course right next to the school, and it was all paid in one package (theoretical and driving lessons, written and practical test).

oblio 9y ago

Based on other comments and my experience in Romania/Luxembourg/France, it seems to be like this in Europe.

mantas 9y ago

In Lithuania/Europe, testing center provides standardised car for the exam. You're not allowed to take test in anything but provided vehicle. Which is clearly marked and equipped with extra mirror/brake for examinator. Driving schools have their own vehicles as well. Big part of their fleets is usually same as exam vehicles so you could get used to those.