To get a Florida driving license, just what exactly do you need to do?
Oct 21st 2013, 6:02 pm
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Re: To get a Florida driving license, just what exactly do you need to do?
I had 2 multiple choice tests, 20 questions on road rules and 20 questions on road signs. Then a 'road' test which consisted of about 5 minutes of driving road a car park (it was closed off to other cars). It was all unbelievably easy.
The worst part was all the waiting around, my test was booked in for 8:15, I finally left after noon and had to return at 4:30pm to get my temporary DL as the computers weren't working.
The worst part was all the waiting around, my test was booked in for 8:15, I finally left after noon and had to return at 4:30pm to get my temporary DL as the computers weren't working.
I just dug out my old licence. Wow, I was skinny and had hair once.
Oct 21st 2013, 6:03 pm
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Re: To get a Florida driving license, just what exactly do you need to do?
The trick is to follow the line in the centre of the road, rather than the sidewalk.
Oct 21st 2013, 6:29 pm
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Oct 21st 2013, 8:24 pm
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Re: To get a Florida driving license, just what exactly do you need to do?
When you drive you tend to follow a line with your eyes, try driving on a road without road marks on it and you will see what I mean, you look towards the edge of the road.
If you drive on the other side of the road you tend to look at the curb rather than the line down the centre.
Oct 21st 2013, 9:18 pm
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Re: To get a Florida driving license, just what exactly do you need to do?
That doesn't appear to be the universal approach. 
The reports every week in the local papers round here suggest that keeping the vehicle on the road is quite difficult, with many reported collisions with trees and utility poles off the right side of the road, or over corrections after drifting of the right side leading shortly thereafter to catastrophic collisions with oncoming traffic.
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Oct 21st 2013, 10:14 pm
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Re: To get a Florida driving license, just what exactly do you need to do?
The reports every week in the local papers round here suggest that keeping the vehicle on the road is quite difficult, with many reported collisions with trees and utility poles off the right side of the road, or over corrections after drifting of the right side leading to over corrections and shortly thereafter to catastrophic collisions with oncoming traffic.
Oct 21st 2013, 10:22 pm
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Re: To get a Florida driving license, just what exactly do you need to do?
Oct 21st 2013, 11:19 pm
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Re: To get a Florida driving license, just what exactly do you need to do?
Someone may have answered this, but when I took my test in Texas I turned up in the hire car I'd been driving for a week and was told by the State Trooper that I couldn't take it in a hire car. He was even good enough to point me at the sentence in the agreement that says the car cannot be driven in "road tests". The trooper said they have in the past called Avis to confirm that driving tests are included in that definition.
He also said he didn't understand why Avis were happy enogh with me getting off a plane in Houston and jumping into one of their cars and launching myself into evening rush hour, but not with driving around a quiet neighborhood at 25 mph to take a driving test.
He also said he didn't understand why Avis were happy enogh with me getting off a plane in Houston and jumping into one of their cars and launching myself into evening rush hour, but not with driving around a quiet neighborhood at 25 mph to take a driving test.
Oct 21st 2013, 11:49 pm
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Re: To get a Florida driving license, just what exactly do you need to do?
Someone may have answered this, but when I took my test in Texas I turned up in the hire car I'd been driving for a week and was told by the State Trooper that I couldn't take it in a hire car. He was even good enough to point me at the sentence in the agreement that says the car cannot be driven in "road tests". The trooper said they have in the past called Avis to confirm that driving tests are included in that definition.
He also said he didn't understand why Avis were happy enogh with me getting off a plane in Houston and jumping into one of their cars and launching myself into evening rush hour, but not with driving around a quiet neighborhood at 25 mph to take a driving test.
He also said he didn't understand why Avis were happy enogh with me getting off a plane in Houston and jumping into one of their cars and launching myself into evening rush hour, but not with driving around a quiet neighborhood at 25 mph to take a driving test.
Oct 21st 2013, 11:57 pm
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Re: To get a Florida driving license, just what exactly do you need to do?
I agree, it was just quicker to type Avis on my iPad
The main point I was making to the OP was to check ahead of time. I had to go back to the test center a couple of days later after borrowing my boss's car in which I took the test.
The actual driving part of the test was trivial, right turn out of the parking lot, 4 more right turns to get back to the center and right turn back in. I then had to parallel park between two cones set so far apart you get a school bus in there.
Oct 23rd 2013, 5:40 pm
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Re: To get a Florida driving license, just what exactly do you need to do?
But at least they made you parallel park, they don't do that in Florida.
