How Easy Is It To Pass Your Driving Test in The USA?
It’s a recognized curiosity that passing your driving test in the US is rather easy and if you can breathe and you’ve got a heartbeat, there’s every chance they’ll hand you your driver’s license on a platter.
Driving tests vary from state to state in the USA, but most include a relatively easy multiple choice examination of around fifty questions followed by a short driving test. Often the practical driving test will be in a car park or will consist of a quick 2 mile jaunt up and down an easy road.
If you ask an American how they past their driving test, most will admit, although somewhat coyly, that they slept through some driver education videos, were accompanied briefly by a driving instructor for about 3 hour practical road time and then took a test on their 16th birthday which was really easy to pass.
No one really knows just why the US driving test is so easy but there are several theories.
The most popular speculation on why the driving test in America is so straightforward is that folk are only sixteen when they take their test so the test needs to be easy enough for a child to pass. But that isn’t a particularly creative speculation.
Most Americans take their test in a car with an automatic gearbox which requires less ability so it makes the test far easier to pass. In the UK people who can’t pass a test in a manual vehicle will often easily pass their test in an automatic car.
Roads are wider and straighter in the USA so if people commute it’s usually a straightforward journey requiring only limited driving skills. This means that even in states where the driving test is a little more taxing it is still easy to pass it and drive once you have done so.
Admittedly in the last few years driving tests have become a little more difficult and in some states you are required to take a safety education course and own a provisional driving license for 6 months before you are allowed to have a full license. This means driving with supervision for those six months.
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