Congrats! You say it isn’t “peak performance”, but the British driving test is one of the hardest in the world- you have to be a pretty good driver to actually pass it.
£5000? Jesus Christ, hope that’s atypical since I’m planning on trying to get a license this year.
I did it in 25 hours at £30 per hour.
Everybody is different and learns thing at different paces. I also did automatic only so that makes it easier.
The theory was the one for me. Couldn’t bring myself to study, damn ADHD, but I do have general common sense and I pick up things from the environment so I figured I could just hope I got questions I knew. Failed once then passed next one.
My mate gave me his theory CD that was endorsed by the AA or BSM or something, I just repeatedly did the exam….passed the theory exam second time, cause I failed hazard perception the first time.
I used James May videos
Hazard perception is hard af at first.
Yep, I did my test in 2004 and it was quite new at the time…I seem to remember there being complaints about how it wasn’t based in reality.
I was taught if you see a hazard click as soon as you see it, then click again two more times. The reason being that these things are programmed by humans and when the programmer deems the hazard to be a hazard and when you deem the hazard to be a hazard may be slightly differently timed. Bit of a shit system really but I don’t really know how they could test it differently without a similar issue of tester and testee having different reaction times.
I think it made my driving worse. I remember after doing it, my instructor was asking why I was braking when I saw drivers roll into give way junctions ahead of me. Because in the hazard perception, they show you videos where people just go straight out!
It’s quite typical iirc
holy shite. when i got mine it was 4 week course (2 days/week) at a 500$ flat fee
I showed up for mine as soon as I was 16, drove around for 30 minutes and paid $30.
A few years later I drove a tractor trailer for about the same amount of time, showed I could back it around a corner, got my CDL.
Things were different 30 years ago.
I’m older, but I took a paper test and got my learner’s. Then later, I took the driver’s test
My dad got his mate to do the test for him. Handed him his ID, the guy pretended to be him, and boom free pass.
You could probably still do that now, if you have a cousin that looks like you
My grandfather straight up lied about his age and got it at 16
What the fuck am I looking at??
when people say Americans can’t drive, this is why
But this is a UK sub, with a U.K. driving school, presumably posted by a Brit.
which was the point?
uk driving school takes itself seriously
I can understand maybe being confused by my comment but my other 2 in this thread right below would have cleared it up
I don’t mean to sound like a cock, but why should I search through all the comments to find a comment making your original comment clearer, which may or may not be there? No, it didn’t make it clearer.
imagine being this full of yourself
do you ever wonder why people treat you the way they do in real life?
probably not
Mate this is a bit of an over reaction to me suggesting you be clear in your first comment. You could have even edited the first comment.
What’s the connection to someone struggling to learn to drive?
Because that’s what I see, and frankly don’t understand it. Today’s cars are tremendously easier to drive than what I learned on, and you should see what my parents had to do to pass their tests, driving manual transmissions without synchronizers, having to start on a hill - smoothly, etc.
All I see here is someone who finds driving particularly difficult, like I find math particularly difficult, or some people find spelling or grammar particularly difficult.
If anything, I give OP credit for sticking with it and not giving up, despite the cost. It’s really hard to keep trying when it feels like you’re just always struggling.
if only automatic transmissions made people know and obey traffic laws, not run red lights or drive drunk
but my point was about the weakly enforced education component and how relatively easy it is to get a license in the US
so even if he struggled the fact he was required to show minimum competence instead of simply processed through is my point
In the UK, you need to show quite a bit of competence to pass. One of the hardest tests in the world.
yep but we Americans get mad when told we are not exceptional and our drivers are under trained
Yikes, maybe you should stay off the road.
Mate, congratulations!
But after that many lessons, and still passing with those errors, are you sure you should be driving?These are really minor. Like that minor mistake for turning right could have been that they weren’t hugging the line to the right at a junction or something. The UK driving test is pretty strict. OP probably drives better than my mum.
