Why did you fail your driving test?

baza52

seoxpert wrote: »

Hi Guys, I am preparing for my driving test, just wanted to know what was the reason of you failing your driving test (If you have ever failed a driving test),,. Just want to get some ideas, I know the main reasons are "being nervous, not enough lessons etc" but I wanted to hear from you guys

Many Thanks:cool:

i would say not being the standard to drive alone.

Terry98

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

The first one I failed for not pausing long enough at junctions.

The second for hesitating too long at junctions.

Now I know why we have so many boy racers :rotfl:

onomatopoeia99

Passed first time in 1987, which was handy as there was a six month wait to get a test appointment. I put in for it in August after the instructor said I was good enough, and the test date was in February!

TadleyBaggie

Passed by UK licence in 1970 first time but I did fail my California driving test in 1987 the first time. I was docked points every time I changed lanes because I only used my mirrors, you are required to actually turn your head to check the blindspot. On my retake my head was on a swivel and I got 99% (docked 1 point for failing to indicate when pulling away).

bearcat16

I failed my first test because turning right at a cross-roads, another driver came along and maneuvered to turn nearside to nearside. As they approached I tried to go offside to offside (as the highway code says) but just ended up getting in his way. Shame really as not actually my fault, but perhaps with more experience I'd have handled it better.

I read a while ago that more intelligent people find learning to drive more difficult, and usually fail the driving test first time. Something about there being no real logic to road use (ie no underlying principles from which the laws are derived, as is the case with physics for example).

The rules of the road are simply arbitrary because someone has decided they should be that way.

Not sure if it's true, but I want it to be, so it is. That's how the internetz works innit.

Car_54

bearcat16 wrote: »

I failed my first test because turning right at a cross-roads, another driver came along and maneuvered to turn nearside to nearside. As they approached I tried to go offside to offside (as the highway code says) but just ended up getting in his way. Shame really as not actually my fault, but perhaps with more experience I'd have handled it better.

How long ago was that? The HC says (and has done for many years) "... there is a choice of two methods ..."

seoxpert

Thanks for the tips!!! Really helps me make a plan

eamon

Took me 2 attempts. From memory at 1st attempt I was to hesitant at junctions. At the 2nd go on getting into the car I was so nervous that everything steamed up. I had the sense to safely start the engine, turn the blowers on and open the window. Thankfully I passed, but it was a good 12 months before I became a confident solo driver.

Nasqueron

barnaclebill wrote: »

In the 1950's my dad had driven a lot but not past a test, most people were driving pre war bangers as was my dad. He took his test sure he would pass and failed, tried again and failed, now very nervous he tried the third time, he said he never drove so poorly even in the emergency stop his door fell off the car and he had to tie it on with some wire and he passed!, he always thought that the examiner did not like it if you appeared too confident, but that was a long time ago and very different conditions.

That made me laugh out loud!

Passed first time, 7 minors, aside from "aggressive use of accelerator" I can't remember the others. Kind of had to as I'd been taking the mick out of people at school who failed first time. Mum and sister with same instructor passed first time as well

Nasqueron

diamond_dave wrote: »

Don't know how true this is but my Dad always told the story about a guy taking his test on a motor bike. The examiner would wait on the pavement and step out in order to get the rider to do the emergency stop.Yes, you've guessed it - one day the examiner stepped out right in front of the wrong bike!! This was sometime in the '50s.

Been around in verbal form since WW2 (after the introduction of the bike test) and first published as an urban legend in 1978

Few other examples of actual "d'oh" moments quoted on the Snopes website:

One from Fullerton (California) recalls an applicant who was pulled over for driving under the influence while taking the test.

An examiner in Toronto (Canada) almost had his life ended when the son of the woman whose vegetable garden the applicant had just sent the car plowing through came after him with a 2x4. (Moral of the story; never back through a fence at the DMV.)

Paula Anderson, nicknamed the Wicked Witch of the West, recalls the time she took a woman down a one-way street.

"Every time I told her to turn, she said she couldn't because the sign said she could only drive in the direction the arrow was pointing," Anderson says.

"When we came to a field at the end of the street, I told her she had to make a decision because we weren't driving an all-terrain vehicle.