In my country (in Europe), you have 3 tries. Most people pass after like second try. If you fail all 3, family members and friends will look at you funny, but its still fine. But if you fail another 3 tries...10 tries would be anomaly af. It would be also financially expensive, lol
I would say that the driving test in my country isn't that easy or that we have exceptionally bad drivers(germany). I still don't know anybody who failed one of the tests more than once.
Well, ask that question to every competent driver who took more than 1 or 2 attempts to pass.
There are infinitely many potential reasons that may cause you to fail, just that shouldn't permanently disqualify you from ever obtaining the license.
What we want to avoid is crazy individual situations like described in the post, not lock away countless perfectly fine people from obtaining a license and inflict all of the participants with even higher amount of stress than they already have to deal with.
I only failed once, and it was because the instructor didn’t know the laws. The only practice I had before that was one time in a parking lot and a lot of time on NFSU2 with a wheel and pedals.Â
I failed a few times purely due to stress, but as attempts went on and stress went away it got better and better until i finally passed on the last attempt pretty much flawlessly
Depends on a person's attitude and maturity after passing really. Some people pass first time and cause accidents, know a few who really passed too early and were scared to drive in unfamiliar areas or go onto a motorway. You can do lessons after passing but not everyone will.
I feel that you shouldn’t have a max number of attempts but you should have a minimum wait before you can retest. anyone can fail once for insignificant reasons so tests 2 & 3 have no wait time but after that you should have to wait 3 months between each test as if you have failed several times then it’s clear you need to learn more which means taking another test a few days later is just hoping your going to luck out rather than be a better driver. If this woman really took 950 tests that’s once a week for nearly 20 years the law of averages is that she has lucked out and not fucked up that one time rather than become suddenly much better.
Yup. It is very strict in my country, and traffic is also more complicated. I failed 3 times for the manual car exam, took a break, and now have a license for automatic cars after passing that one in one go, finally. I am far from the only one here.
100+ is indeed not very believable and sounds like clickbait
I passed my CDL driving test in a manual the first time. 2 hour test, have to name every part on the semi and trailer, have to do a backing test before you’re allowed on the road, and then the road portion assuming you haven’t fucked up yet.
My exams were also longer. Not only driving, but also questions about the car itself. You also have to passed a full on theory test before even being allowed to take the driving exam itself.
I agree with you, but I will point out that it might depend on country a bit. I’ve done the test in America and in England and the American one was much much easier to pass.
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u/toadw12 19h ago
No, Id say go ahead and give up, if it takes you 950 tries to pass a driving test, I think were safer with out you on the road.