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Driving licence test not much different from winning the licence in the bag of chips/crisps?

• WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
  Did US states reduce DL testing complexity in 2020? I mean COVID was weird times. And that could certainly explain the 2020 uptick in wrecks that the article is about.
• amenhotep 3y ago
  I saw a comic on reddit once that the author had drawn about their driving test experience - real - showing her driving with her dad sitting in the passenger seat next to her while she navigated around some car park or test track with the examiner standing somewhere close by watching! And this was not the joke! (The joke was that her dad wasn't allowed to say anything helpful to her and the effort of staying silent was causing him to turn beet red and inflate) I'm sure that's not particularly representative (actually I think it might have been a covid thing?) but the fact that it was even conceivable, and that few of the Americans in the comments seemed to fully understand how genuinely pants on head insane the situation being shown was, really stuck with me. Felt almost like a comic from an alien planet rather than a civilised foreign country.
• arp242 3y ago
  I'm skeptical this is really a huge factor; most bad driving is a matter of choice, not incompetence. And the bad driving that results from incompetence often tends to not be too dangerous. And in countries with strict driving license tests people just try 3, 4, 5, or more times until they get "lucky".
• loeg 3y ago
  I think the initial test has very little to do with it. Most drivers are not following the set of skills and behaviors necessary to pass the test.