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Originally Posted by Nyororin
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.
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Umm ok so you are telling me you honestly check the tires every time you get into your vehicle? No, I am sure you don't, nobody does (but am sure you stop at red lights, and let the person with the right of way go first).
... so you are saying they want to test to see if somebody knows how to check to see if a tire is flat.. I am sorry but unless you are blind, it is quite obvious, and I don't think it needs to be tested, nobody should be failed for failure to do so. And any normal driver would know the moment they start to move their car that their tire is flat.
So once again my point is that it seems really silly to me, and has nothing to do with a person's driving ability..
And come on.. check for obstructions or kids.. nobody does that either, that is what the mirrors are for, and in any case who is to say a kid would not run in front of your car in the time between you checking and driving away?
Once again, silly, unrealistic for a test, and nothing to do with driving ability.
If it is so important it should be on a different test.. like maybe the written part?? One that it makes sense to ask about hypothetical situations.. not this "playing make-believe" in a driving skills test.
What a drivers test should be about is.. do you understand traffic laws.. right of way.. can you control your vehicle... those are the things that matter... all this other stuff we have talked about, if it is so vital to being a good driver, should have it's place on the written test... having it as part of the drivers test is just nonsense.