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Originally Posted by RickOShay
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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You don`t consider checking if your tires are flat a part of normal common sense knowledge? Because that is what they have you check. You walk around the car and check the tires, and then glance down to make sure there isn`t a kid or something just where you can`t see them. You`re not checking under the car, but the tires and to see if there is something/someone just out of your view while in the car.
It isn`t like they make you change a tire, change your oil, etc etc. I checked my oil and washer fluid in the driving school test because it was part of what they teach you to do at the driving school, but didn`t do it at the real test because it isn`t part of it. Still I don`t see how this is such a strange thing to know how to do...?
Is taking a glance at the tires to see if they`re flat or have anything stabbed into them all that weird? I would really hate to drive off and
then notice that one is flat...
That is what a test is - to check your knowledge of what to do in a situation. They want to see if you know how to do the common sense sight check that should become second nature if you`re driving. It`s not safe to drive around with a flat or to pull out without taking a glance to see if there is a kid sitting down behind your back bumper.