My first test was in the middle of a snowstorm, I had to run the entire course in bad visibility and unplowed roads. The instructor failed me because I missed a stop sign and when challenged, even his colleague said there was no stop sign. Still failed me. Talked with a few others that this guy had failed, we're certain he doesn't pass any male student on their first attempt.
We had one like this where I grew up in Australia. This arsehole refused to pass anyone who made it through the test successfully first time. He'd get you back to the car park, then think up some major infraction to fail them for. Yet if they had one or two minor mistakes, he'd pass them. Go figure.
11:39 When I heard "pufferfish," I thought they were making fun of their appearance. Then the realization hit me harder than Spongebob hits walls in the tests.
The left turn on yellow fail is crap. Yellow means slow down for upcoming red. You can proceed as long as you don't speed up at all once it's yellow trying to beat the light but you can absolutely coast on through. That examiner is insane and telling someone to throw it in reverse during a yellow is a really quick way to guarantee someone to get their bumper smashed (we all know I mean rear-ended but I didn't want all of the comments that would follow, haha) Frick that examiner.
Yeah the rule I learned is that if you have to speed up to get through the yellow, then just slow down. If you can get through without changing speeds, you’re fine.
One thing I’ve noticed is how many people freeze up when their stressed because of the freeze response. Those people should never have a licence unless they can control it.
my driving instructor actually told me if I find myself in a tricky situation it is best if I don't panic and just do nothing, most of the time the situation will clear itself, I found it to be even good life advice.
12:30 In fall 2009 I (an American) spent a semester studying abroad in Ireland. 1: In one of the pre-travel planning meetings, our college's study-abroad coordinator told us that driving is one of the most common causes of death for students abroad, even in first-world countries. 2: At the Dublin airport, at the rental car pick-up, on the road connecting the rental lots to the rest of the airport's roads there are the same signs that the commenter mentions. Multiple huge signs over the entire road. DRIVE ON LEFT DRIVE ON LEFT
Imagine Actually having a road test. I had my "road test" a few weeks ago at aaa. The test consisted of driving around the testing building, executing one each of a back-up, three point turn, and parallel park. It took less than 5 minutes. I passed, and the only trouble I had was forgetting to check my mirrors when pulling out into traffic once.
16:36 for those not aware of driving laws yet, even if you're given the go ahead to drive (example: a green light), it is still your responsibility to make sure the way is clear before you continue. although the pedestrian shouldn't have started walking when the light was about to turn green (and there ARE indicators telling pedestrians when to light will turn green), the driver is still at fault for not yielding for the pedestrian.
A friend failed before the test even started for being too tall. He’s almost 7 feet tall (2.10 meters) with shoe size to match. The driving school had SUVs that he could fit in, but back then you took the test in the testing facility’s cars and they just weren’t big enough. The tester took one look at how he placed his feet on the pedals (weird angle to fit his legs around the steering wheel) and failed him on the spot. Nowadays, you test in your driving instructor’s car so he could do it, but doesn’t care enough to bother with it.
The guy I was taking drivers ed with would pull off of the road even once into a ditch anytime a car would be coming toward us on the opposite direction, 🤦🏻♀️
Well damn, I'm sure that method worked fantastic to practice getting used to the anxiety of passing oncoming cars. Especially on a two lane highway at 60mph. That's crazy.
The guy I had for my test was a mute. Not a word until we were back at the dmv, then he said alright you passed. Probably the second scariest experience ever
Damn, that was an intentional set up. Poor dude. Honestly it takes driving through several school zones before you learn to keep driving the school zone speed until you actually pass a sign that says end of school zone. You just assume you missed seeing the sign cause it's going on so long but noooo.... When in doubt don't speed up until you see another posted speed limit sign. That ticket is one nobody is trying to get. Lol
@@KatSpade1018 Tell me about it. When I was 14, my mom accidentally sped in a school zone on her way home from work. She was 15 mph over the limit, and the ticket was $400.
@@michaelbutler1619 DAMN!!!!! That's hella higher than I thought it would be. Bet that was a lesson that only took one time to learn. But hell we've all been there, driving along at about 40-45 mph and suddenly realize you're right in the middle of a school zone. You slam the brakes and your eyes bug out and dart around like a crackhead praying there's not a cop within a mile of you. Hahaha
@@michaelbutler1619 a truly wise investment! Hehe. My first car was a '71 Chevelle and "fuzz buster" was my best friend. Hahaha. This is prob a stupid question but do they have stuff like that anymore? Just wondering because it seems like I remember hearing something back then about how the police had some new device or something in the cars that would scramble a radar detector so it wouldn't alert. ( After they had been around for awhile and alot of ppl started getting them ) Is that accurate or am I completely insane and making up fake recollections. Lol cause that's def a strong possibility 🤣
19:45 I've been licensed (and accident-free) 15 years now and every single time I'm waiting for a green left-turn arrow and the main light turns green, my foot flinches towards the gas for a fraction of a second. Every. Single. Time.
4:33 What’s preventing you from pulling a U-turn and going back into the DMV lot? If I failed my test before i left the lot, I would’ve parked and left
My DMV test was interesting. I was told to parallel park. Backing up to complete the maneuver. The car stalls. Turn on the hazard flashers, restart the car, completed parking. I thought, "This is it. I failed." Surprised, I passed. Over 50+ years have passed. I still tell this story.
About to take a driving test literally tomorrow, these make me feel pretty good as I haven't done anything more egregious than jump a curb during turns and barely not rear end a car once.
My “road test” was in a parking lot. All i had to do was turn left, right, go backwards, make a 3 point turn, and park between two cones. No parallel parking or on a hill since my state is flat and it’s all suburbs
I failed because when I was getting ready to parallel park, I used the car’s four ways (as my parents made me practice for months) and I bumped a cone when backing up.
I'm turning 17 this year, and I still don't have my learner's permit. I've always been nervous about getting it, but these stories remind me that it could be worse.
I'm a truck driver. I trained a guy who kept hitting minor things because he wasn't turning wide enough. He damaged my truck and took out a decorative rock at a customer. He failed the training program and was fired. I then trained a guy who took the hood off another truck. I don't train anymore.
French here. Failed my first exam because the lady that was my instructor didn't teach me one single important thing: the right priority when turning left. Imagine this: I'm at a four ways intersection, I am leaving the starting point of my exam and my examinator says that after the tricolored lights, I have to turn left. OK, cool, I do just that... except I don't let the cars opposite past me as I should because I DON'T KNOW BETTER and he immediately tells me I just did a critical error. Just 30 seconds into my exam but I still have 19 minutes to go😭 And since I'm both in panic and unaware of how I'm supposed to left turn correctly, I do this shit two more times. Of course, the first was already enough but it just makes it even worse😵💫 After that, I was offered to learn driving with my parents since it's something my driving school did after failing an exam, and my grandma taught me for the next 6 months and I got my license on the second try. I almost thought I failed again at the end because I didn't stop at a crossing path with a lady waiting to cross it but I justified that I mentally calculated that by the time I had stopped, the path would have been behind us so it was both useless to stop now and dangerous because of the cars behind me, and thankfully the examinator agreed. I can say I was pretty lucky these past 10 years. I had only one small accident with another driver and scratched the paint a couple of times at best. Alas, I'm mourning my car now as she was burned down last month on New Years by a bunch of dumbasses. Rest in peace my dear, I wish I could have driven you just a couple more years at least😭😭😭
I saw someone fail before they left the lot. Before you begin a test, the examiner will do a walk-around of the vehicle, asking you to test your high-beams, turn signals, brake lights. If any of these are not functioning it's an instant fail before they even get in the car. Anyways, my gf is from Brazil and she was taking the test for a valid license in Canada, and we were waiting in our spot for the instructor. Instructor comes out for the vehicle next to us, yells them they are going to check their lights etc. "Okay, flash your high-beams please.... Your high beams...... YOUR HIGH BEAMS!.......... Okay, left signal......... Left signal please....... YOUR LEFT SIGNAL!" Didn't get to the right signal or brakes, wrote him down for a fail right then and there
In my part of India, if you just go to RTO (it's our DMV) And apply for a driving licence, they make you go around a tree that's just growing infront of the building. Then fail you because you didn't do all the things you could possibly do anyway while circling a tree. But instead if you join a driving school, get the driving instructor with you, he'll just say "trust me bro, he can drive fine" and closes RTO fist with a few thousand rupees. You've passed the test. No need to even show at the place...
Not a horrendous fail, just a strict one. My brother failed the first time because he went just a few miles over the speed limit. Going over it at all is an automatic fail. They were only gone for one minute when we saw them pulling back into the parking lot. It's an understandable rule. He passed the second time.
It wasn’t a fail but more funny. My brother was practice driving at one day and his driving school instructor asked him to stop at McDonald’s so he could get some food.
I passed, but with a 70. Supposedly I didn’t look enough (I moved my head), and I was to close to the curb during parallel park, which I was 18 inches…..some people.
not a driving test story, but I had a "Behind the Wheel" instructor that I swear looked and sounded exactly like Chris Farley... Oh, and I managed to fail my first driving test by getting into the middle lane of a three lane road to be prepared for whichever direction the instructor wanted me to go. They claimed I was "swerving." not my only mistake, but the one that put me over the top. Also, the first time I ever drove a vehicle (a go-cart), I didn't get the concept of holding down the gas rather than giving bursts to keep up speed and kept killing the engine.
I’m so stupid. I hit the curb on a 3 point turn first, and then the second time…I hit a long parking cone marker thing with my mirror getting out of the parking spot. I feel so stupid.
My brother failed to pass the test just because his instructor did not like my brother's face and told that straight to his face right after the test was finished. I'm dead serious... (He failed the test 5 times because of similar crap and thus until we relocated in another city. Then he succesfully passed the test first time in that new city)
I feel like a pity pass is definitely a real thing, after the first few attempts. The next instructor is fully aware this is your fourth or so attempt. If they see you’re actually taking this test seriously yet still struggling a little. They’ll be a lot more lenient and look past certain things. In hopes you don’t have to return another time. Source: me, a dude had to retake the driving test three - four times before actually getting my license. Where the instructor said to me: “I’m going to pass you, but…” Basically insinuating that “just don’t Fuckin’ run any god damned pedestrians over, and I’ll give you the damn license.”
@@gruffinators You are thinking of a different location. The speed limit is 50 km/h in every city, town, etc... In France. (unless specified otherwise)
I failed my first test for one misstep. I did the entire test perfectly but when parked on a downward slope I forgot to engage the parking break after I put it in park. Was the only reason I failed.
in one of my first driving school drives some guy on the 2nd most left lane was slightly ahead of me as there was a red light, I began to go when light turned green, the guy floored the gas like he's spongebob and I hit the break as he crossed in front of me to take the right turn. This was a four lane road and the instructor was like "what the fuck?"
Didnt need to do a road test cuz covid. Before taking my "test" I watched a girl absolutely fail a K turn/ 3 point. Then her mother preceeded to run over multiple curbs and leave. Funnist stuff ever
My first test was in the middle of a snowstorm, I had to run the entire course in bad visibility and unplowed roads. The instructor failed me because I missed a stop sign and when challenged, even his colleague said there was no stop sign. Still failed me. Talked with a few others that this guy had failed, we're certain he doesn't pass any male student on their first attempt.
We had one like this where I grew up in Australia. This arsehole refused to pass anyone who made it through the test successfully first time. He'd get you back to the car park, then think up some major infraction to fail them for. Yet if they had one or two minor mistakes, he'd pass them. Go figure.
11:39 When I heard "pufferfish," I thought they were making fun of their appearance. Then the realization hit me harder than Spongebob hits walls in the tests.
The left turn on yellow fail is crap. Yellow means slow down for upcoming red. You can proceed as long as you don't speed up at all once it's yellow trying to beat the light but you can absolutely coast on through. That examiner is insane and telling someone to throw it in reverse during a yellow is a really quick way to guarantee someone to get their bumper smashed (we all know I mean rear-ended but I didn't want all of the comments that would follow, haha) Frick that examiner.
Yeah the rule I learned is that if you have to speed up to get through the yellow, then just slow down. If you can get through without changing speeds, you’re fine.
One thing I’ve noticed is how many people freeze up when their stressed because of the freeze response. Those people should never have a licence unless they can control it.
my driving instructor actually told me if I find myself in a tricky situation it is best if I don't panic and just do nothing, most of the time the situation will clear itself, I found it to be even good life advice.
"Ugh, it's just my sister" YEAH THAT'S SIBLING ENERGY FOR YA
12:30 In fall 2009 I (an American) spent a semester studying abroad in Ireland.
1: In one of the pre-travel planning meetings, our college's study-abroad coordinator told us that driving is one of the most common causes of death for students abroad, even in first-world countries.
2: At the Dublin airport, at the rental car pick-up, on the road connecting the rental lots to the rest of the airport's roads there are the same signs that the commenter mentions. Multiple huge signs over the entire road.
DRIVE ON LEFT
DRIVE ON LEFT
Imagine Actually having a road test. I had my "road test" a few weeks ago at aaa. The test consisted of driving around the testing building, executing one each of a back-up, three point turn, and parallel park. It took less than 5 minutes. I passed, and the only trouble I had was forgetting to check my mirrors when pulling out into traffic once.
16:36 for those not aware of driving laws yet, even if you're given the go ahead to drive (example: a green light), it is still your responsibility to make sure the way is clear before you continue. although the pedestrian shouldn't have started walking when the light was about to turn green (and there ARE indicators telling pedestrians when to light will turn green), the driver is still at fault for not yielding for the pedestrian.
The ‘pufferfish’ SpongeBob reference was awesome! 😂
The SpongeBob story killed me along the the SpongeBob thumbnail lol.
A friend failed before the test even started for being too tall. He’s almost 7 feet tall (2.10 meters) with shoe size to match. The driving school had SUVs that he could fit in, but back then you took the test in the testing facility’s cars and they just weren’t big enough. The tester took one look at how he placed his feet on the pedals (weird angle to fit his legs around the steering wheel) and failed him on the spot. Nowadays, you test in your driving instructor’s car so he could do it, but doesn’t care enough to bother with it.
The guy I was taking drivers ed with would pull off of the road even once into a ditch anytime a car would be coming toward us on the opposite direction, 🤦🏻♀️
Well damn, I'm sure that method worked fantastic to practice getting used to the anxiety of passing oncoming cars. Especially on a two lane highway at 60mph. That's crazy.
The guy I had for my test was a mute. Not a word until we were back at the dmv, then he said alright you passed. Probably the second scariest experience ever
My younger brother failed his first one by speeding in a school zone that went on for half a mile longer than he thought it would.
Damn, that was an intentional set up. Poor dude. Honestly it takes driving through several school zones before you learn to keep driving the school zone speed until you actually pass a sign that says end of school zone. You just assume you missed seeing the sign cause it's going on so long but noooo.... When in doubt don't speed up until you see another posted speed limit sign. That ticket is one nobody is trying to get. Lol
@@KatSpade1018 Tell me about it. When I was 14, my mom accidentally sped in a school zone on her way home from work. She was 15 mph over the limit, and the ticket was $400.
@@michaelbutler1619 DAMN!!!!! That's hella higher than I thought it would be. Bet that was a lesson that only took one time to learn. But hell we've all been there, driving along at about 40-45 mph and suddenly realize you're right in the middle of a school zone. You slam the brakes and your eyes bug out and dart around like a crackhead praying there's not a cop within a mile of you. Hahaha
@@KatSpade1018 She got a radar detector installed in her car after that.
@@michaelbutler1619 a truly wise investment! Hehe. My first car was a '71 Chevelle and "fuzz buster" was my best friend. Hahaha. This is prob a stupid question but do they have stuff like that anymore? Just wondering because it seems like I remember hearing something back then about how the police had some new device or something in the cars that would scramble a radar detector so it wouldn't alert. ( After they had been around for awhile and alot of ppl started getting them ) Is that accurate or am I completely insane and making up fake recollections. Lol cause that's def a strong possibility 🤣
19:45 I've been licensed (and accident-free) 15 years now and every single time I'm waiting for a green left-turn arrow and the main light turns green, my foot flinches towards the gas for a fraction of a second. Every. Single. Time.
4:33
What’s preventing you from pulling a U-turn and going back into the DMV lot? If I failed my test before i left the lot, I would’ve parked and left
My DMV test was interesting.
I was told to parallel park. Backing up to complete the maneuver.
The car stalls. Turn on the hazard flashers, restart the car, completed parking.
I thought, "This is it. I failed." Surprised, I passed.
Over 50+ years have passed. I still tell this story.
About to take a driving test literally tomorrow, these make me feel pretty good as I haven't done anything more egregious than jump a curb during turns and barely not rear end a car once.
Let me see, I was 20kms over the limit, ran a red light, couldn’t maintain speed. passed because I could parallel park to perfection lol
My teacher once told me of amstudent who came to the exam completely drunk. Naturally he was flunked on the spot.
My “road test” was in a parking lot. All i had to do was turn left, right, go backwards, make a 3 point turn, and park between two cones. No parallel parking or on a hill since my state is flat and it’s all suburbs
I failed because when I was getting ready to parallel park, I used the car’s four ways (as my parents made me practice for months) and I bumped a cone when backing up.
I'm turning 17 this year, and I still don't have my learner's permit. I've always been nervous about getting it, but these stories remind me that it could be worse.
I'm a truck driver. I trained a guy who kept hitting minor things because he wasn't turning wide enough. He damaged my truck and took out a decorative rock at a customer. He failed the training program and was fired. I then trained a guy who took the hood off another truck. I don't train anymore.
French here. Failed my first exam because the lady that was my instructor didn't teach me one single important thing: the right priority when turning left.
Imagine this: I'm at a four ways intersection, I am leaving the starting point of my exam and my examinator says that after the tricolored lights, I have to turn left. OK, cool, I do just that... except I don't let the cars opposite past me as I should because I DON'T KNOW BETTER and he immediately tells me I just did a critical error. Just 30 seconds into my exam but I still have 19 minutes to go😭 And since I'm both in panic and unaware of how I'm supposed to left turn correctly, I do this shit two more times. Of course, the first was already enough but it just makes it even worse😵💫
After that, I was offered to learn driving with my parents since it's something my driving school did after failing an exam, and my grandma taught me for the next 6 months and I got my license on the second try. I almost thought I failed again at the end because I didn't stop at a crossing path with a lady waiting to cross it but I justified that I mentally calculated that by the time I had stopped, the path would have been behind us so it was both useless to stop now and dangerous because of the cars behind me, and thankfully the examinator agreed.
I can say I was pretty lucky these past 10 years. I had only one small accident with another driver and scratched the paint a couple of times at best. Alas, I'm mourning my car now as she was burned down last month on New Years by a bunch of dumbasses. Rest in peace my dear, I wish I could have driven you just a couple more years at least😭😭😭
I saw someone fail before they left the lot. Before you begin a test, the examiner will do a walk-around of the vehicle, asking you to test your high-beams, turn signals, brake lights. If any of these are not functioning it's an instant fail before they even get in the car.
Anyways, my gf is from Brazil and she was taking the test for a valid license in Canada, and we were waiting in our spot for the instructor. Instructor comes out for the vehicle next to us, yells them they are going to check their lights etc.
"Okay, flash your high-beams please.... Your high beams...... YOUR HIGH BEAMS!.......... Okay, left signal......... Left signal please....... YOUR LEFT SIGNAL!"
Didn't get to the right signal or brakes, wrote him down for a fail right then and there
In my part of India, if you just go to RTO (it's our DMV)
And apply for a driving licence, they make you go around a tree that's just growing infront of the building. Then fail you because you didn't do all the things you could possibly do anyway while circling a tree.
But instead if you join a driving school, get the driving instructor with you, he'll just say "trust me bro, he can drive fine" and closes RTO fist with a few thousand rupees.
You've passed the test. No need to even show at the place...
11:37 Okay, that one got me
Not a horrendous fail, just a strict one. My brother failed the first time because he went just a few miles over the speed limit. Going over it at all is an automatic fail. They were only gone for one minute when we saw them pulling back into the parking lot. It's an understandable rule. He passed the second time.
9:39 RIP Mitch Hedberg
11:45 she had me in the first half, not gonna lie
It wasn’t a fail but more funny. My brother was practice driving at one day and his driving school instructor asked him to stop at McDonald’s so he could get some food.
I passed, but with a 70. Supposedly I didn’t look enough (I moved my head), and I was to close to the curb during parallel park, which I was 18 inches…..some people.
Which state is that in? In WA, it's 80 to pass, 70 would have totally failed
@@lovegold3225 Texas minimum is 70
Good thing where I live screwing up parallel parking isn't an insta-fail
not a driving test story, but I had a "Behind the Wheel" instructor that I swear looked and sounded exactly like Chris Farley...
Oh, and I managed to fail my first driving test by getting into the middle lane of a three lane road to be prepared for whichever direction the instructor wanted me to go. They claimed I was "swerving." not my only mistake, but the one that put me over the top. Also, the first time I ever drove a vehicle (a go-cart), I didn't get the concept of holding down the gas rather than giving bursts to keep up speed and kept killing the engine.
I passed but was so close to failing I have a memory burned into my head.
It involves a full school bus and a crappy intersection
I’m so stupid. I hit the curb on a 3 point turn first, and then the second time…I hit a long parking cone marker thing with my mirror getting out of the parking spot. I feel so stupid.
My brother failed to pass the test just because his instructor did not like my brother's face and told that straight to his face right after the test was finished. I'm dead serious... (He failed the test 5 times because of similar crap and thus until we relocated in another city. Then he succesfully passed the test first time in that new city)
during driving school my instructor had me speed through a neighborhood and stop on a random street. it turned out his friends house was on fire.
I failed mine because I hit the parallel parking barrier not 5 minutes in I still say the barriers were too close
Thanks for the stories
I feel like a pity pass is definitely a real thing, after the first few attempts. The next instructor is fully aware this is your fourth or so attempt.
If they see you’re actually taking this test seriously yet still struggling a little.
They’ll be a lot more lenient and look past certain things. In hopes you don’t have to return another time.
Source: me, a dude had to retake the driving test three - four times before actually getting my license. Where the instructor said to me: “I’m going to pass you, but…”
Basically insinuating that “just don’t Fuckin’ run any god damned pedestrians over, and I’ll give you the damn license.”
10:30 From what I've heard of Paris, driving on the right side of the road is the least dangerous of the habits she could have picked up there.
Also is there no speed limit in Paris or am I thinking of a different location?
@@gruffinators You are thinking of a different location. The speed limit is 50 km/h in every city, town, etc... In France. (unless specified otherwise)
Was so nervous that I forgot the hand brake on when I was supposed to start the test lol. Passed on first try though
I forgot how to parallel park so I said something to the affect of "bruh just mark it off". Still passed though.
I failed because I couldn't answer how to park a car on a steep incline. I didn't know how because I live in Florida.
My buddy killed a dog. He failed!!
I failed my first test for one misstep. I did the entire test perfectly but when parked on a downward slope I forgot to engage the parking break after I put it in park. Was the only reason I failed.
in one of my first driving school drives some guy on the 2nd most left lane was slightly ahead of me as there was a red light, I began to go when light turned green, the guy floored the gas like he's spongebob and I hit the break as he crossed in front of me to take the right turn. This was a four lane road and the instructor was like "what the fuck?"
Didnt need to do a road test cuz covid. Before taking my "test" I watched a girl absolutely fail a K turn/ 3 point. Then her mother preceeded to run over multiple curbs and leave. Funnist stuff ever
Amazing video
Failed my first test because I took it in a manual car, kill a manual 3 times, auto fail.
Hi mis. Puff-SpongeBob
Did he blame you?
The story of the cone flinging death machine driver... I’m glad he failed, people that do that are a$$hats that should never get their license.
Took me 6 trys