Did you pass first time?

[MagpieRacer]

Did you pass your license test first time?

it will be interesting to see how many did..

 

[Green Gloves]

It took me three times. But the first time I was with a "killer" DMV officer. She's well known in New York(at least in Brooklyn) as she's never passed anybody on the first try.

 

[Touring Mars]

I passed first time... but it took me a while to get the gold...

 

[amp88]

Yep. It was a bit dodgy though, as on the first turn out of the test centre, I pulled out onto the road and a taxi came flying around the corner. He had to slow down to avoid hitting me (which is a major fault and would/should cause you to fail). The examiner asked me to pull over just up the road. He asked me to explain what had happened. I said that when I pulled out the taxi wasn't visible from where I was and that he was driving with inappropriate and excessive speed. The instructor conceeded that he couldn't see the taxi either and that he was going too fast

edit: lol @ Touring Mars

 

[Max_DC]

First time, after 22 driving lessons ( 1 hour each ); national average is something like
30 or 32....

 

[Nasadus]

Nope.I passed the 2nd time.
I was speeding and cutting corners the first time. That's what you get from playing GT3 too much. I swear, i always wanted to steer in as soon as possible and come out as far out as possible.The ideal method of taking corners but not in traffic.

 

[Green Gloves]

First time, after 22 driving lessons ( 1 hour each ); national average is something like
30 or 32....

wow so many hours before the test. I took 12 lessons (45 min each) before taking the first test. That was back when I was in highschool and there was no requirement to take driver's ed at all.

 

[Race Idiot]

3rd time lucky, well the first two times I was nervous as hell which caused me to make several mistakes. It was strange, as my instructor told me that I was great during the lessons but I just fell apart during the test as he sat in the back the second time.

The third time I took some rescue remedy (which worked well in calming me down) and breezed it. Even though I had to back up at a junction because this huge truck decided to pull into the tiny road I was coming out of. Then shortly after that, another lorry broke down infront of me while I was waiting at some lights to exit an A road.

 

[Omnis]

i haven't done anything in relation to getting a license at all. i really need to go get that taken care of.

 

[Max_DC]

wow so many hours before the test. I took 12 lessons (45 min each) before taking the first test. That was back when I was in highschool and there was no requirement to take driver's ed at all.

Rules in Germany are different; Here are only private driving schools, they are the only ones who have the right to provide driving lessons; There is no possibility to drive in a car together with a passenge with licence next to you as in the States...
There are also a lot of small streets and they are not as in many parts of the States, you know only straight parts with 90 degree corners; But I could have made my licence after 12 hours indeed, but only people who've driven a motorcylce before achieve this....

Btw why do you live in Chiba ? I've been to Japan several times, love it and last year
my rented car was from Chiba prefecture ...
Dricing in Japan is fun as hell, I love the touges although I only had 130 hp....

 

[Jay]

1st time, no problems .

 

[TheCracker]

First time - 3 weeks after my 17th birthday

 

[cardude2004]

I turn 16 on July 9, but I haven't even started to try to get my license. I should get going.

 

[MagpieRacer]

First time - 3 weeks after my 17th birthday

wow, you learned pretty dam quikc then, or did u start learning at 16?

 

[TheCracker]

wow, you learned pretty dam quikc then, or did u start learning at 16?

My dad had been taking me to airfields since i was about 15, so i knew how to drive a car - it was just the 'road craft' that i needed to learn from an instructor.

I have to admit though, on the day of my 17th birthday i decided that my mum should let me drive my sister and i to school (with my mum in the car of course) so off we went, 'L' plates on car, provisional licence in pocket and all was going well..... until we got to the first road junction, about 100 meters from our house. Unfortunatly it ment a 'hill start' - not something i'd ever tried, having learnt on an airfield (ie flat) after several attempts i finally got going, only to panic and roll backwards into a car waiting patiently behind me! No damage done thankfully, but it did dint my ego somewhat.

 

[DQuaN]

Theory and Practical first time. I had maybe 17 or 18 lessons i think.

 

[dbartucci]

In Canada we have graduated licensing, when you're 16 you take a written test to get your 'G1', after 1 year of having your G1 (8 months if you complete a 16 hour class room + 10 hour driving school) you can take your road test to get your 'G2'. After 1 year of having your G2 you take another road test to get your 'G'.

With your G1 must:

• maintain a zero blood alcohol level while driving;
• be accompanied by a fully licensed driver, who has at least four years driving experience, and a blood alcohol level of less than .05 per cent, in case he/she needs to take over the wheel;
• ensure the accompanying driver is the only other person in the front seat;
• ensure the number of passengers in the vehicle is limited to the number of working seat belts;
• refrain from driving on Ontario's "400-series" highways or on high speed expressways such as the Queen Elizabeth Way, Don Valley Parkway, Gardiner Expressway, E.C. Row Expressway and the Conestoga Parkway;
• refrain from driving between midnight and 5:00 a.m.

With your G2 you must

• maintain a zero blood alcohol level while driving;
• ensure the number of passengers in the vehicle is limited to the number of working seat belts.

The demerit points are different for the license levels too.
You must complete the process (G1->G) within 5 years.

Oh and I passed all my tests on the first try.

 

[Omnis]

good thing I live in south florida. flatter than calista flockheart.

 

[Purple Platypus]

Passed the first time through. And, it was the day after my 16th birthday, with 6 hours behind-the-wheel training (though I had about 50 hours of driving total before the test).

 

[barryl85]

i passed 2nd time around with 18 lessons (1hour a piece) i actually felt i drove better on the test that i failed than when i passed but hey **** happens!

 

[Touring Mars]

good thing I live in south florida. flatter than calista flockheart.

 

[Green Gloves]

Rules in Germany are different; Here are only private driving schools, they are the only ones who have the right to provide driving lessons; There is no possibility to drive in a car together with a passenge with licence next to you as in the States...
There are also a lot of small streets and they are not as in many parts of the States, you know only straight parts with 90 degree corners; But I could have made my licence after 12 hours indeed, but only people who've driven a motorcylce before achieve this....

Btw why do you live in Chiba ? I've been to Japan several times, love it and last year
my rented car was from Chiba prefecture ...
Dricing in Japan is fun as hell, I love the touges although I only had 130 hp....

sorry for hijacking the thread for a while. I am in Chiba to teach English. I have been here for just over two years and still love it. I love driving in Japan too with all those little tight roads and mountain passes. I drove half-way across the country not too long ago and it was my best Japan experience. It took me six fun days to do it.

Come to think of it, it was ten years ago when I took those driving lessons.

 

[vladimir]

2nd time for me.

driving tests are officially 45 minuts here, with city and autobahn driving, parallel parking, emergency braking and some questions like how to check the oil, tyre pressure, were to put the different fluids.

first time, i drove absolutely perfect for 44 minutes, i had virtually got the license, the instructor and the examiner were seriously impressed with my driving...but then 3 intersections before the finish line series of minor things went wrong, i ended up in a wrong lane, became nervous and ****ed up by almost crashing into another car. the instructor had to grab the wheel and steer himself to avoid the crash and that was it. i was pretty mad afterwards...

the second time it was the other way round. the examiner did not really care and only let me drive for about 30 minutes, i drove absolutely crap (although without any mistakes), i stalled it, i could not park (i drove back and forth 5 times and the car still stood in an akward way), but i got the license.


then last i did the test for motorcycles. it was autumn, in the morning, 2°C. i started the bike, went right at the next intersection and there was a garabage truck in front of me collecting garbage from a pretty large house. so i spent the first 10 minutes of my test waiting behind the truck. then off we went to a parking lot for some manouvering tests, where you have to do things like slalom with 30kph, emergency braking from 50, avoiding something with 50, stop&go, slalom at walking speed. first was the tight slalom at walking speed, which went wrong twice (officially the limit i think) but i got a third chance and just went a little faster to be on the safe side and made it. then for the rest of the tests i just took the freedom and did everything a little slower to make sure it works well...the examiner did not notice and i made the tests.
finally i had to drive around and that went really good although it was pretty cold especially during the autobahn part.
i got back to the driving school after over an hour since the examiner had no mercy with me and thought all the waiting behind the truck had to be made up by driving longer. but anyway, i had done well.


the funniest thing throughout the whole driving school was when i had my first practice lesson during the rain.
i stood there and wanted to switch on the front wipers, but had forgotten how this 5 way knob worked. i looked at it a while and then pushed it in one dircetion...and a sudden loud noise emerging from the back scared the hell out of me...i had switched on the rear wiper.
then i tried it again...and boom...some fluids were shot over the front windshield...i again was scared, having not exppectet the cleaning water.
the instcurtor then explained to me again how the damn thing worked.

 

[Duke]

I had my driver's license by 9:45a on the morning of my 16th birthday. The MVA didn't open until 9:00a.

 

[tabelins]

The first time i was caught speeding by 3mph even though it was an accident and i got it the second time easy

 

[Event]

I failed my driving final in Driver's Ed, but passed my driving test 1st try. I failed the final because the intructor claims that I changed lanes of railroad tracks... I changed lanes afterwards, but he was too busy looking at his clipboard.

 

[xcsti]

I passed my written with a 100% the first time (anyone who can read, can pass the thing easy)

I passed my road first time with no problems, and with a tester who supposedly was a difficult one. The only thing he said was that I shouldn't be afraid to turn my head around to check behind me in lane changes and pulling out.

 

[Jpec07]

First time, although I almost failed...
(pulling out of driveway to RMV was hell, with cars coming from every which way, and I got into a race with a mailtruck o.o)

 

[sicbeing]

I passed, first try. It was in a Ford Expedition too, huge ass thing.

 

[Max Powers]

The third time I took some rescue remedy (which worked well in calming me down)

Rescue remedy, eh?



I passed mine the first time, although I think my test was pretty easy compared to most since most roads around me don't have much traffic or anything. I took it in my old 1988 Honda Accord (got it to 250,000 miles before it died). I didn't even parallel park halfway before he told me that it was fine and to move on.I was really nervous though because I was new at driving a manual transmission back then and I was convinced that I was going to stall out during the test.