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| snickerdoodle | Nov 12 2011, 12:40 PM Post #21 |
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Just me.
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ooooh yes, the trailer too! what's the other one i'm missing?? |
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| cuddlebug38 | Nov 12 2011, 03:09 PM Post #22 |
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THE Pretty Pretty Princess
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I have no idea. But including the trailer you only have 16 vehicles. That number seems low to me.
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| porottaja | May 5 2012, 01:23 PM Post #23 |
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I am just starting my driving school and I also got my first car! It is 2004 Nissan Primera.
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| snickerdoodle | May 5 2012, 01:27 PM Post #24 |
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Just me.
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Jennie! i forgot the 1970something Ford F150! |
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| PhoenixVakarian | May 5 2012, 05:02 PM Post #25 |
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Major
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Well, atleast it's not a banshee
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| CallUpChuck | May 5 2012, 06:04 PM Post #26 |
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Brigadier
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Aren't Finnish driving schools really thorough and tough? |
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| porottaja | May 5 2012, 06:06 PM Post #27 |
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I don't know. What are they like in US and UK? |
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| Braythor | May 5 2012, 08:16 PM Post #28 |
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Dumped Scruff's mum
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In the UK, you're taught to drive in the way the relevant authorities have determined, through analysis of everything other than the actual, physical, real life act of driving, is safest. Unfortunately, this does not take into account human nature regarding adaptation to tasks, and thus is actually serving contrary to its intentions. Nobody in this country drives the way they were taught to, because the way you're taught to drive is retarded. Edited by Braythor, May 5 2012, 08:17 PM.
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| Scruff 815 | May 5 2012, 09:11 PM Post #29 |
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Learning to drive in the UK will set you back at least 40 hours of tuition at about £20 an hour, plus a theory exam, plus a final practical test. Naturally I passed mine first time.
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| crazybydefault | May 6 2012, 12:08 AM Post #30 |
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Grenade Honker
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It's fucking ridiculous how easy it is to get a license in the US. You start by taking a multiple choice knowledge test (which only a true idiot would fail) to get a learner's permit. If you're 15, you have to have that for a year before you go to get your license (if you're 16, you only need it for six months). To get your license, you take the same test, followed by having a stranger from the DMV get in your car, and you drive that person around while they tell you where to go and they grade your driving. No classes (unless you count Driver's Ed, which isn't a requirement), no tuition, NOTHING. However, I've taken both Driver's Ed and a skid-recovery class in which you drive a car with balded tires and a roll cage to learn how to recover from skidding and sliding in a vehicle. that class!
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| ASLANS R0AR | May 6 2012, 12:32 AM Post #31 |
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Spartan Pops
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A skid-recovery class would be really helpful; I had to learn myself on the ice! |
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| crazybydefault | May 6 2012, 12:44 AM Post #32 |
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Grenade Honker
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It was insane how much it helped. The first time I started sliding, it felt like natural instinct on what to do! |
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| SensoryFour34 | May 6 2012, 12:52 AM Post #33 |
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Elite Slayer Tryhard
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Driver's Ed depends on what state you're in. In Utah, Driver's Ed is required, but completely pointless. You don't use anything you learn in the class when you're actually driving. You mostly just watch videos about how to drive (and some that don't teach you anything, but might give you nightmares), and do packets where you just have to search the textbook for the answers. The only actually driving you do isn't even during the class. You have to sign up for Range (which is basically just a driving obstacle course where the instructor yells at you if you do the slightest thing wrong) and Road (where you pretty much just practice for the driving test). After a certain number of sessions of both, you take the test with one of the teachers. Once you finally get your licence, you never follow any of the rules you learned in the class. Sounds like fun, huh? (Biggest waste of time ever! )
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| CallUpChuck | May 6 2012, 03:39 AM Post #34 |
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Brigadier
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Yeah, what Crazy and Sensory haven't said already. Getting a driver's license is pretty simple in the States. I had to sit through a driver's education class while staring at the teacher's junk in a pair of trousers way too tight for his girth. This is followed by a certificate of a permit which allows you to drive yourself IFF with your parents in the car. Come the license test, you are asked meaningless questions such as "How many feet do you have to drive behind a school bus full of juvenile delinquents when you're pleasuring yourself?" and "What is the minimum stopping distance when you see a busty blonde walking down the sidewalk?" I have learned very little from these lessons and of course, experience is the greatest teacher. You learn more about driving when you have 8 people in your car dressed for prom blasting music at a dog-howling decibel level. You also learn more about driving when you to make the speedometer read 120mph on icy roads. So, yeah Poro, go out there and drive. |
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| SensoryFour34 | May 6 2012, 03:53 AM Post #35 |
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Elite Slayer Tryhard
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Wow. I wish I had questions like that on my test. Then I might actually have been slightly interested. |
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| Scruff 815 | May 6 2012, 10:23 AM Post #36 |
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Poro - do you generally have automatics or manuals over there? I think one of the biggest reasons it's so much easier to learn in the US is that y'all generally drive automatics. That whole extra pedal and gear change business is easily the hardest part of learning to drive
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| porottaja | May 6 2012, 10:56 AM Post #37 |
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Well, in Finland we have 20 hours of actually useful theory classes. Then we have 32 actual driving lessons, where you drive and teacher sits next to you. That includes driving in dark and that icy driving lessons. After those we have exam on the theory and actual driving exam, where the observer tells you where to go and you do it. You pretty much have to do perferct on each exam to get yout license. And Scruff, most of the cars here are manual. |
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| KouMoady243 | May 6 2012, 12:13 PM Post #38 |
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Down Under you can get your Learner's permit at 16 (Easy computer test) and then at 17 if you have 100 day hours and 20 night! (Fucking alot) you can get red Provisional licence (Don't tell your instructor where to go!) and then after a year of red you get upgraded to green and then 2 years of green before your full licence. It is really bullshit and take forever! I would much rather do skid classes!
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| snickerdoodle | May 6 2012, 01:17 PM Post #39 |
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Just me.
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no such thing when it comes to driving. that's what our driver's ed classes are billed as and really? it was a fucking joke. i moved back to the US at 17 and got my permit pretty much right away. in VA, you have to hold your permit for 9 months before you can get your license. in the meantime, my mom signed me up for a driver's ed class that was like 20 minutes from the house...after the first week, she got tired of driving me so i drove myself. ![]() my class involved me shooting the breeze with the other misfits in this class, talking, not paying attention, and then our exams? were open book. then we were supposed to do 7 behind the wheels and observe 4? i only did 2 behind the wheels and 1 observation and the teacher passed me with flying colors. the only useful thing i learned from that class was how to parallel park. dead serious. i can drive both automatic and stick, stick's WAY more fun. especially in a 6 speed mini. fun fact: you guys know my mom is french. so when she moved to Houston with my dad, she had her french driver's license but needed an american one. she called the DMV to make an appointment and when they told her to bring her own car, she just about died. her exam in france STARTED parked on a hill in a manual. she borrowed a tiny automatic from a friend, showed up at the DMV, the guy made her drive around the parking lot (seriously) and gave her a license. |
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| TheOneInYellow | May 6 2012, 02:25 PM Post #40 |
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The Audiophile
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I don't know if I am just slow (yes, hardy hardy ha), but I have been learning to drive for a while; luckily, I should be nearing an actual driving exam soon... I do agree to what Braythor and Scruff said, but in my case, my driving instructor is seriously awesome, possibly on of few instructors who can teach you to drive properly, and is not retarded. NO JOKE! I'm lucky to have him as an instructor, as other members of my extended family are pretty bad at driving; a few got their licenses from over 30 years ago, doing less than the bare minimum of driving lessons. The only thing that pisses me off is one part of the Theory Test. First, the true title of this test is Theory & Hazard Perception Test. The theory itself is piss easy as it is a MCQ test, but the Hazard Perception Test is fucking stupid. The only reason I did not pass it the first time was due to the stupidity of the test. Let me explain:
Sounds easy, right, right? WRONG!!! There is something that the instructional video, and no learning aids beforehand, explain to you; only those who have done the test can tell you this. You are NOT supposed to click when you see a hazard. If you do that, you fail, simply because the test deems that you did not spot early indicators of the hazard unfolding. You are supposed to click at any potential hazard, even if it no hazard occurs afterwards. In this case, if there is a pedestrian on the pavement, you click. If they are moving towards the road, you click. If they are moving away from the road, you click. If you see a cat dancing on a wall near a pavement, you click. If you see a car on your right or left, you click. If you see a postman, you click. If you see a road sign, you click. If you see a plastic bag on the road, you click. If you see Pokémon on the road, ready your Pokéball (preferably a Great or Ultra Ball, but if it is dark, a Dusk Ball will suffice). I can go on. You click on everything that may or may not be a potential hazard, as in the real world of driving, you are supposed to automatically recognize these signs. The point I am making is that the instruction video and the learning aids don't tell you this. You click even if the hazard is a false negative, and you should click often. There is a fear of clicking so much that you fail that video clip, but that only happens if you repeatedly click continuously in rapid succession at a constant rate; other than that, just keep click that mouse button. I failed the Hazard Perception test the first time (though I passed the MCQ test), but I had to re-take both again. In my second test a week later, I again passed the MCQ test, and went from 15% to 80% success in the Hazard Perception Test. I knew all the hazards, and what to look out for, the first time, but the badly explained second part of the test cost me another £40.
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