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RickOShay (Offline)
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02-25-2010, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Nyororin View Post
The checking under the car, etc, isn`t a silly rule - nor are any of the others. They don`t test on just what you`d do on a normal day hopping in your car - they test for a series of different circumstances to see if you know how to handle them. Not just an average day. I`ll restate the same thing here as I always say when the topic of the test being silly - If you can`t be bothered to go through the motions when you know you have to and are being tested on them... Who knows what you won`t bother to do when you`re not being tested.

You check the car so that they can see that you know how to do a basic check of your tires and lights, and then a basic engine check of oil and the like. If you don`t know how to do such a basic test, the thinking is that you wouldn`t know how to do basic care of your car and are not ready for a license.
Well I think this is kind of illogical. If part of having a drivers license is knowing everything about your car, then there should be a complete separate test for those things. A driving test is not a car maintenance test. It seems quite silly to me to throw such a thing in on a "driving" test. If car maintenance is such an issue then it needs to be giving separate special attention, not a half-assed strange check under your car that really has nothing to do with driving skill, but failing to do, will not allow you to have a "drivers" license. Therefore I still say it is silly.
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