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If you cannot pass the test you should not be on the road. It is ridiculously easy.

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US driving test.

"Drive around the block at 25mph, operate turn signals, look in mirrors, stop at stop signs, park in a giant space, and don't actually hit anything. Pass."

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I actually had to do a 3 point turn for mine :eek:

On a public road, no less! :nod:

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I was lucky. I got my Massachusetts driver’s license in 1976, just by showing my British one. (Oh, there was a written test too. Multiple choice..)

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They're tough where you are.

While my test was toddler-level in difficulty, my actual lessons were hair raising. I learned on Manhattan, rush hour. Being a new driver on Riverside Drive was - interesting. :eek:

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Sounds like my moped provisional license in the UK.

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Me too. I then parlayed my MA license into a CA one, so I've never taken a road driving test in the US.

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This is hardly an exaggeration! BUT - the written (multiple choice) test is not so easy. It's not HARD, either, but there are enough 'obscure' questions that you can get tripped up! Can't be bothered to look up the questions, now, but as a hypothetical, they may ask 'what is the safe-stopping distance when travelling at 50 mph? Is it 120, 140, 160 feet? Now, that's not something I carry in my head. When actually driving, I have a good sense of safe stopping distance, but I don't know how to translate that 'instinct' to 'feet'.

You can get up to 5 wrong I believe. I got six wrong :( :) . But - all my wrong answers were 'on the safe side' so the lady at the window simply gave me another 5 questions, which I got right, and she passed me!

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Unlike 99% of the drivers around here, who seem to think that 3 feet off my rear bumper at 50mph is fine :banghead:

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And that the appropriate time to operate the turn indicator is when already stationary at the junction, probably somewhere midway between the left and right lanes.

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That drives me insane. The whole concept of "advance warning" seems to be missing.

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This is where GCSEs stood me in good stead. My capacity to simply memorise vast quantities of material is still vast.

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I am in the process of moving from NY to CT. As I lived in the city I never needed to take my driving test but now I need to! At the CT DMV I had to take a theory test and I have my practical this weekend which will be on the road not a carpark (not sure which I would prefer). Luckily as I had my UK license I didn't have to wait the 90 days between theory and practical but I did have to sit through an 8 hour online safety course one Saturday ;)

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I did mine in the city before I moved out to CT, in the city really meant Yonkers, I don’t think they have actual test routes in Manhattan etc. I miss driving mini Cooper zip cars around the city 😀. The biggest difference is no right on red unless there is a posted sign in the city, out here it’s right on all reds unless there is a located sign.

If you 8 hour safety course is the same as mine in NYC it was basically videos from the 90’s telling you not to drink drive….

The practical test in NY was an order of magnitude easier than the one I did in the UK. The examiner was unimpressed with my double de clutch downshift when we hit the National speed limit area of the test, and basically told me he wanted to fail me, I guess track days are not the place to learn for test passing.

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Haha yeah I currently live in Manhattan and there is no way I would ever do my test here :rofl: it reminds me of Mario Karts lol.

Yeah the course was full of old videos but it was via Zoom and mic and cameras were off so I just potted about the house lol.