thread for adding up the number of driver's license tests failed by ilxors

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I thought you all drove automatics!

The last car I bought in 2000 had manual transmission (and automatic was much more expensive) but apparently since then it's become less commonly available in new cars.

also no-one will steal a manual (according to my Brit friends in the US)

It's been nine years since I've owned a car at all so I couldn't speak to that but nobody tried to steal that one.

I'm learning automatic - but that doesn't include the instructor applying the break.

also no-one will steal a manual (according to my Brit friends in the US)

― kinder, Sunday, March 16, 2014 1:06 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pretty much, yep:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/16/car-thieves-stick-shift-foiled-massachusetts_n_4609801.html

my 1 actual fail was my first Aus test - wheel up on the curb during a botched parallel park

oh the shame :(

yeah manual transmission has nearly disappeared in america, i don't know if it's ppl not ever having learned how to drive stick or if ppl just need to multitask too much while driving

Didn't realize manual was fading.

My first cars were all manual. Thought I was a grown-up when I finally got an automatic. "Now I can drive and eat a cheeseburger at the same time!"

I think pretty much the only new cars you can easily get it on are highish-end enthusiast dealies. And dealers know there's no point to stocking manual Fiestas if no one can even test drive them.

I suspect it's mostly down to more and more people never having learned; I have friends in their 40s who have never driven standard. I actually miss it, though; my first car was a standard, but my two cars after it were/are automatics (although most minivans were never available with standard anyway).

I learned on a manual and 2 out of 3 cars I've owned were manual but if I were to get another car, even if I could get a manual I would get an automatic. The less I have to worry about while driving the better.

The things that come standard now irk me. I would love to buy a car (and save money) by getting a new one without power locks, power windows, CD player or auto transmission. I've never driven a car that had GPS on it or had DVD players in the backseat, and I'm afraid I'll be forced to buy that crap on the next one.

I'll keep things like the defroster and passenger rear-view mirror. I'm not a Luddite, for god's sakes.

i like manual when you're speeding up on the freeway voooom (chik) voooooooom (chik) VOOOOOOOOM

so good

i hate manual in traffic jams

OTM.

Manual's also great in the snow. But it sucks at a drive-thru.

I learned on a manual after driving an automatic in the States and thought I'd want to get an automatic as soon as I could, but now I like doing the gears :)

2 failed tests so far :(

First one, hit the accelerator when I meant to hit the brake.

Second time, botched turn in the road and undue hesitation :(

Dammit.

7 :(

1 (don't remember why, but it was a fair cop)

five tests taken, four fails achieved \o/

i'e been driving legally and regularly since i was 15 but tbh if i had to drive on the wrong side of the road i'd almost certainly fail as well

;)

In theory I should be able to do it, I can drive on lessons, but I get so nervous and shaky I do stupid things on the test, and it's so easy to fail. I had to do country lanes and one of the things my instructor had told me was important there was that if the speed limit goes up (it was 60) I have to make sure to do more than 30 or they'll fail me for going too slow. Which resulted in the examiner telling me to slow down and I knew that was it (it was). Then I got another fail for blocking a side road which I thought was a bit harsh, it wasn't a Keep Clear or anything and I was there for a few seconds at most, but I guess I'll hopefully remember not to do that again. The examiner said it could cause road rage, and I thought, no, what causes road rage is the person with road rage, if they can't handle tiny inconvenience like that maybe *they* shouldn't be driving, but whatever.

My mum failed hers about 6 times until she passed when she was 40, but is a very good driver. I've never even taken driving lessons - even when a former boss offered a payrise and to pay for my first few ones, I turned him down. Because I know I am not fit to be behind the controls of a vehicle and never will be either.

I failed 4, passed my fifth.

But hey, I'm an official Advanced Driver now!

i passed my first but i didn't even attempt it until i was 24

when i had driver's ed in school the driver's ed teacher passed me, but called my mom after and told her he'd only passed me because he never wanted to be in a car with me again and to not let me out on the road under any circumstances

v ethical!

1 - Sydney - Didnt stop at a stop sign. Just kind of gave way.

1. Never bothered since.

(I wasn't paying for the lessons or the test, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered)

... at all)

oh wait i can do this. took my test once. five major faults and 30 minor faults and at one point the adjudicator or whatever tf they are had to apply the passenger side brakes because i’d misjudged a gap.

never bothered since, but excitingly for all london based road users and pedestrians i am thinking of giving it another go next year.

sorry CP :(

I have never taken a test but I have had probably well over 20x as many lessons for my 0 tests as any other human has needed per test

my last instructor did not turn up to my next scheduled lesson, contact me or answer the phone after I misjudged turning into my own road which I'd turned into every week for a billion lessons and terrified some poor mother and kid coming the other way :(

sorry CP
The test is the worst bit, you're kind of second-guessing a lot of stuff like that
Mr kinder is starting lessons soon eeeek

I see I answered this 4 years ago. My daughter has her test next week, which is making me feel very old.

still 7!!!!!!!!!!!111111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you know what they say, 8th time lucky

wait is that good or bad

lol it means last time I revived this thread I'd failed 7 times. this time I have still failed 7 times. but I've had 8 tests. what do you think? :D

hurrah

congrats!!

:)

Zero fails. He told me take a corner which I ignored. He was pissed off. I made a Kundera related joke so we talked about the book. Lol. I fully expected to have failed but he said:"You passed but there's room for improvement." Lol