The truck driver guy probably got his license on the first try. Go figure.
Which means his kill ratio is better than average.
Man passes driver's test on 11th try
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Which means his kill ratio is better than average.
That's a very lame excuse especially if it took so many times and we'll never know if these issues were the cause. The driving examiner hardly says anything during a test so an NA accent should not be an issue. The road test is the same no matter the examiner: take this road / highway, turn here, make a 3 point turn, do a parallel park, etc. If the driver failed so many times, it means there are problems with these skills and / or he's driving agressively, not signalling, speeding, etc.
The driving schools should bear some responsibility because they're teaching the good or bad habits. That school might also be using the driver's mother tongue, which sets them up to fail because they can't have an interpreter during the road test. The only exception is if the driver needs a sign language interpreter that is booked ahead of time.
I agree that road tests are pedantic, but the driving school has to prepare students for that. One-handed driving might be frowned upon during a road test, but it is not illegal by itself. I can't see someone failing a road-test just because they drove one-handed and had no other issues, but obviously it is up to the examiner's discretion.
You could have a point that the road tests are too pedantic and don't reflect real world driving. If that's really the case, what changes would you make to make it better reflect real world driving? How would those changes deal with the vast difference in urban vs rural driving? You could pass a test in Moosonee and be ill prepared to deal with driving in the GTA. It's fair to talk about changing the standards, but there still needs to be one. If there isn't a standard or if it's very opened ended, then licensing has little meaning like the Pleasure Craft Operator Card where you don't have to take an in-water test with your boat.
There's no way to prove or disprove that most drivers would lose their license for not meeting driving test standards based on casual observations alone. If it were true, that would mean that most drivers are breaking many laws and the police would be having a field day. Having said that, I definitely would fail at parallel parking (besides not being in the G road test) because I seldom if ever do it and my car doesn't have parking assist. I always go to a parking lot as it's much more convenient and wont' hold up traffic. I suspect that suburban drivers would also have difficulty with parallel parking without assistance.
Insisting that he failed mutliple times because of language, nervousness, forgetfullness, etc is also silly because we don't know if these played a role nor is there any evidence. He didn't show his past or current driving test results, so we have no idea what he did wrong and what he did differently to pass this time. In addition, the G road test does not test for the 3-point turn at the moment. If he doesn't understand instructions then he's responsible for asking the examiner to repeat or clarify them regardless if there was an accent.
Someone that fails a test multiple times and makes the same mistakes has not taken corrective actions. Whether or not these mistakes were caused emotions, language barriers, forgetfulness, lack of skill, fatigue, wrecklessness, etc are besides the point and should be taken care of.
Never mind that a commercial truck license is different than a standard G license.
There's no such thing as a North American accent. It's also quite possible that the examiners that failed andr passed him were the same race and spoke with an accent. That's why the driver is responsible for asking to repeat or clarify instructions when he doesn't understand what's happening.
How is what I said going off on a tangent? If you fail a test multiple times and make the same mistakes, it's up to you fix those issues despite emotions, nervousness, language barriers, etc.
So what are the common driving behaviors that could result in a failure? We can't have a meaningful discussion unless we have the actual criteria examiners look for in the road test. Your acceleration example depends on the road conditions / configuration and might not necessarily cause a failure on its own. There are on-ramps that have fairly short merging lanes, which would require hard acceleration. Surely, an examiner would take the entire road test into account. They should be able to tell the difference between agressive behavior vs behavior that is not necessarily illegal.
You've also have not presented data or evidence that a language barrier is one of the reasons he failed more than once. It is unlikely he would have language issues with different examiners 10 times in a row. How do you know that any one of the examiners spoke the same language as him and was the same race? In that scenario, the examiner would also have an accent as the test can only be given in English or French. Whether or not there was a language barrier, multiple examiners determined he could not satisfy the requirements of the test and that's why he failed.
I agree though that saying that he's now going to get into accidents let alone drive a truck is not a reasonable conclusion.
What exactly is an American / Canadian accent? How would you describe the accent of Canadian born Chinese person? If someone has difficulty understanding because of accent or language issues, then they have to speak up and seek clarification.
I'm embarassed to admit it, but I passed on my fourth attempt. However, in 30 years of driving I have only caused one minor accident (rear ended someone at a low speed).
We've all gone off topic now and again. I'm not talking something completely unrelated to driving tests. It seems that you're being overly pedantic about this.
A sudden and hard acceration doesn't mean an automatic failure. You seem to imply that it's happened to you or know of a case.
Yes, I agree that we cannot conclude anything about the driver including language barriers or other issues because we were not there (nor could we) to see what happened.
That's enough said about this so I'll leave it there.
You should have not been able to drive after the third attempt. Bad driver!
One woman in Korea had to take the driving test just under 1,000 times before she passed.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Woman spent £11,000 on getting her driving license
South Korean woman Cha Sa-soon made international headlines 15 years ago when she finally earned her driving license after taking 960 theory and practical tests and spending £11,000.
To be fair, she took the written test 860 times and the practical test 10 timesOne woman in Korea had to take the driving test just under 1,000 times before she passed.
Woman spent £11,000 on getting her driving license
South Korean woman Cha Sa-soon made international headlines 15 years ago when she finally earned her driving license after taking 960 theory and practical tests and spending £11,000.
"She then reduced this to just twice a week, until she finally passed the written test, on her 860th attempt. Once she had that under her belt, she moved on to the practical test, which would also prove a challenge. Cha Sa-soon had to take that test 10 times, bringing the total number of driving examinations up to 960, between the written and practical elements."
Seems like there's a proofreading issue or math isn't the writer's strong suit because 860 + 10 ≠ 960
