Comments | andrewducker: Interesting Links for 15-04-2017

andrewducker

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skington April 17 2017, 02:03:06 UTC

Good grief, that BBC article was terrible. I did a quick google, and the government's own summary was far better than anything else I saw. For one thing, it answered the question the BBC article raised but didn't answer: "wait, you didn't have to be able to parallel-park before?" And the answer appears to be "you still don't; you only have a 33% chance of being asked to".

FWIW, when I passed my driving test in France, I was asked to parallel-park, and my instructor took me to a one-way street and made me park on the opposite site of the street from what you'd expect, so I had to think fast and flip all of my instructions / work out the principles of parallel-parking from scratch on the fly. The bastard.

(I passed, barely, mostly because, I think, the other guy from the same driving instructor had just failed his test so badly that we pulled over before he was done, without even returning to the test centre, and swapped me in for him. I don't think the test guy had the nerve to fail us both.)

andrewducker April 17 2017, 08:38:46 UTC

Thank you, that _was_ a better summary.

Your instructor sounds particularly testing. Glad you survived it!