failed my US driving test today!

[jamiegrimble]

Sounds pretty harsh to me.Internet search brought this goodie.

Hi. It is left, right, SLOW or STOP.
Make sure to know ALL the auxillary equipment inside your car.
Such as:
YOU MUST KNOW THESE or they will NOT get inside the car for your road test.
Source(s):
1-driver side window must be down
2-clean windows inside and out
3-Arm signals
4-defroster front & back windows
5-Headlights
6-right turn signal
7-left turn signal
8-brake light
9-foot brake
10-emergency brake
11-emergency flashers
12-glove box
13-horn
14-windshield wiper switch
15-emergency parking brake
MAKE SURE you have current registrationa nd insurance on the vehicle you will test in.
GOOD LUCK to you.
I am a driving instructor here in CALI and teach this everyday. any questions email me

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070730221952AA74tHg

 

[otherwise]

Sounds pretty harsh to me.Internet search brought this goodie.

Hi. It is left, right, SLOW or STOP.
Make sure to know ALL the auxillary equipment inside your car.
Such as:
YOU MUST KNOW THESE or they will NOT get inside the car for your road test.
Source(s):
1-driver side window must be down
2-clean windows inside and out
3-Arm signals
4-defroster front & back windows
5-Headlights
6-right turn signal
7-left turn signal
8-brake light
9-foot brake
10-emergency brake
11-emergency flashers
12-glove box
13-horn
14-windshield wiper switch
15-emergency parking brake
MAKE SURE you have current registrationa nd insurance on the vehicle you will test in.
GOOD LUCK to you.
I am a driving instructor here in CALI and teach this everyday. any questions email me

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070730221952AA74tHg

They can ask you all of that ^ here too.

Those hand signals are also what cyclists are technically supposed to use too. Here we get taught them in grade 3 (~8yrs old).

Also make sure you shoulder check on right hand turns-incase of cyclists - I got points off for not doing that on my test.
It sucks failing your driving test because the tester is a dbag. Hopefully you pass next time.

 

[idahoblues]

I walked into the sheriff's office about twenty two years ago and told them I needed a licence. They'd never seen anything like my Uk licence, so they gave me a manual, told me what questions were on the test and told me to read it for half an hour. No driving test and the written was multi choice....I shit you not,one of the questions was `at a stop sign you should,a slow down,b something else or c, come to a complete stop. I got one question wrong(no, not the one above) and they told me how well I'd done. AND they asked me if I'd like to ride a motorbike, I said that I'd had a bike in the uk for years so they gave me that too.
It's legal for fourteen year old kids to drive a pickup truck around here, there's a special allowance made for all the kids who live on farms and ranches.

 

[Frank the Yank]

LOL!!! Funny story. Thats jobsworth probably has a "fail quota". If theres another fee involved for you to take the 2nd test, theres another answer as to why he failed you!!! TAXachusetts

 

[Bill]

Sorry op but for some reason I'm pmsl.

Not getting off the car park lol.

 

[daveduke67]

I went in the local bakery yesterday for a meat and potato pie. They'd sold out but it didn't matter as I'd got some sandwiches I'd made at home earlier.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Rescheduled for 7th December..... hand signals learnt.....

 

[Return of the Mac]

Never ever driven in UK. Moved to Argentina 4 years ago and passed the test in Spanish. Girl told me if I had any questions I couldn't understand to let he know, I told her all of them. She gave me the answers, quick drive round the block with local policeman where the only questions he asked about were, (me being Scottish), do all Scots like a drink, and do I like football. Yes to both questions and pass. Easy peasy.

 

[MC_fan_in_Texas]

I'm 27 years old, got my license when I was 16, and I have never taken a driving test. Back when I got my license, if your parents did drivers ed, the could waive the driving test, which my parents did (this is no longer a option). I also have lived in Texas that entire time so I haven't had to apply for a different state's license, which could require me to take the test depending on the state...

 

[Kakhaber Tskhadadze K.O.T.A.]

Never ever driven in UK. Moved to Argentina 4 years ago and passed the test in Spanish. Girl told me if I had any questions I couldn't understand to let he know, I told her all of them. She gave me the answers, quick drive round the block with local policeman where the only questions he asked about were, (me being Scottish), do all Scots like a drink, and do I like football. Yes to both questions and pass. Easy peasy.

HA HA ......... statistically you're also seven times more likely to be killed by a car in Argentina than in the UK.

 

[BWTAC]

Never ever driven in UK. Moved to Argentina 4 years ago and passed the test in Spanish. Girl told me if I had any questions I couldn't understand to let he know, I told her all of them. She gave me the answers, quick drive round the block with local policeman where the only questions he asked about were, (me being Scottish), do all Scots like a drink, and do I like football. Yes to both questions and pass. Easy peasy.

HA HA ......... statistically you're also seven times more likely to be killed by a car in Argentina than in the UK.

By a drunk Scotsman?

 

[kunaguero10]

Here, before you kill someone.

Ha ha! That's the sign! I know it now having looked in the manual!

how are you supposed to do that when in a car?

 

[Carver]

Any UK learners reading this thread, arm signals (other than being on opposite side of car) are different to USA and they depend whether you are signalling to someone behind you or someone in front who is controlling traffic. Signals for car drivers are different to cyclists/ motor cyclists when signalling to someone behind but the same when signalling to someone at the front.

So read your highway code.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Sorry op but for some reason I'm pmsl.

Not getting off the car park lol.

I can smile about it now but at the time it was terrible....

 

[Sigh]

I failed my first test as well. Didn't have a car, so work let me use a...

...full size, jacked up, dodge ram cummins diesel with a very stiff suspension

naturally the DMV tester was a four foot and a dog end lady that I had to give a boost to to get in the passenger side. bad start. Also, I had never driven the vehicle before, ever. The blokes I was working with drove it in, and were waiting outside the testing center. It all went well until I was coming around the back side of the testing center. The road curved, and about half a foot had fallen away into the drainage ditch. The road was narrow as it was and I was in a pretty big truck and the right front went where the tarmac should have been and the little lady proceeded to bounce up and down like a jack in the box. I wanted to laugh as the look on her face was priceless. Bouncing around on a bench seat with the diesel roaring away with some bloke with a funny accent smelling of oil and turps saying, "sorry love, sorry love".

She failed me for not driving with due care and she suggested I drive a more practical vehicle next time.

*sigh*

 

[pogrom92]

I failed my first driving test because it sprinkled a few drops and I turned the windshield wipers for a couple of swipes. Didn't know I had to turn on the headlights any time I touch the windshield wipers. Automatic fail.
Instructor was a good guy though, rescheduled me for the very next day.

 

[cyberblue]

What's the point in taking a test then?

Because my UK licence is only valid for a year after my residency in the States began.
I have till the end of November to get it.

-- Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:23 am --

Fuming!
Was meant to be a 9am test but due to the storms the centre opened at 10am so there was already a backlog for the two instructors.
I wait in the car having done the paperwork and he comes over, asks me to wind the window down. I do so and he says ''before we start you must demonstrate the hand signals''.
'What hand signals?'' I replied.
He begins to tell me there are hand signals I have to know should the indicators / lights not work. Told him I hadn't a clue, but stuck my left arm out and said 'left', then put the left arm out and sticking upwards and said 'right'.
He then said 'there's one more'. I said 'I don't know what it is'. He said 'it is stop'.
- thought about it and stuck my hand forward out of the window in a 'halt' signal.
I was told to read it up in my manual and re-apply for the test and he walked off to the next car......
I didn't even leave the car park!!
I said to him 'oh well, just as well I can still drive on my UK licence' and off I drove ha ha ha.

That's a great retort, shame you didn't say it before he'd walked away to the next car though, then he may have heard you.

He did hear me! When we were going through the paperwork I had to show it him, so he knew I was driving on it.
He didn't make a comment at all, just carried on to the next car.

Think this is a wind up but if not Hope you dont get him next time then

 

[daveduke67]

when you see some 18 year old **** driving around in a new M3 going to " school" but not yet legal to drink , it beggars belief.


how old before these "kids" leave school anyway ?

40 ??

Going off some of the High School girl films I've seen - yes about that.<br /><br />-- Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:02 pm --<br /><br />

Here, before you kill someone.

Ha ha! That's the sign! I know it now having looked in the manual!

how are you supposed to do that when in a car?

Left hand drive over there - you'd struggle in a RHD import though.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

What's the point in taking a test then?

Because my UK licence is only valid for a year after my residency in the States began.
I have till the end of November to get it.

-- Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:23 am --

That's a great retort, shame you didn't say it before he'd walked away to the next car though, then he may have heard you.

He did hear me! When we were going through the paperwork I had to show it him, so he knew I was driving on it.
He didn't make a comment at all, just carried on to the next car.

Think this is a wind up but if not Hope you dont get him next time then

I really wish it was a wind up! Rescheduled for 7th December.... in theory I'm not supposed to drive on my UK licence after 30th November....
There was 2 instructors, old bloke and youngish whipersnapper... it was the young one I had. I too hope I get the old bloke next time.

 

[Richard]

You don't even have roundabouts!

Surely you just have to know how to drive in a straight(ish) line?