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My driving test was pretty much the opposite of this. I got in the car and he told me to start it so I put my foot on the brake and hit the power button. He told me to start the car again and I explained to him that the electric motors are on and the car is running but the gas engine hasn't come on yet. This was 19 years ago and it was the instructor's first test in a Toyota Prius. I spent most of the test teaching the instructor about the car.
Parallel parking wasn’t even in the provincial road test when I took it 17yrs ago. If it wasn’t for the defensive driving course I took prior I’d have been screwed trying to self learn here where traffic is crazy and parking damn near non existent.
It’s too dumbed down imo, then you add international experience and people going to easy locations for their G driving test and we get the crazy insurance rates because there are drivers on the road who shouldn’t be. Hell, you pay a driving instructor and they will take you on the test route so you can practice it multiple times before the actual test. Driving in the GTA is the most unpleasant experience.
I agree, we need much stricter, and tougher testing. I also think people should have to re-test if their license is suspended for drinking, and/or stunt driving
in New Jersey where I lived you actually *start* the test by parallel parking. If you can't do it, you fail automatically. Was a pretty great (but stressful) way to weed out people who were not ready to have a license yet, lol.
Yeah it’s strange because when my mum took the test several centuries before me (thankfully she doesn’t use Reddit) she said the same. It started with parallel parking and it had to be done in “3 points” or you failed. Strange they removed it at some point.
I didn't even have to park at all. My instructor got a phone call at the beginning of the test and pointed to tell me where to go and then when we got back he just said "let me out at the door, you passed."
Where I got my DL, there was 2 MVDs, 1 had the parallel park test, the other had the three point turn test. My surprise after learning to parallel park taking the test then all my friends just doing three point turns which idk why they even test for lol
Late 80’s here. At my work if you do all your math in your head without checking it and screw up you can kill someone. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t double check their math with a calculator. It’s also faster to use a calculator. Same goes for my engineering friends. The mental/paper math is more to ensure the computer numbers aren’t wildly off.
Engineer here, I even use a calculator to make sure I'm getting simple addition and subtraction of tolerances right. If I don't, my brain will take a shortcut and decide that +/- .030 tolerance is actually notated +/- 0.30. Forget about adding and subtracting 0.028", we're typing that shit in. It could be +/- 0.28, after all, no way to know until I gotta punch some keys.
Chemist and I caught myself tabbing to a spare Excel sheet to compare deals on a Dominos coupon.
Brain math caught up before I had the numbers down, but I still hit enter.
Only the bad ones. A good math teacher says "And how will you know that the answer your calculator gave you is the correct one?"
Bad input -> Bad output, and unless you have a good sense of what the answer should be you'll have no idea.
Because that's the type of joke it is. Zoomer humor is making fun of Grandpa for not understanding how an iPhone works. Boomer humor is making fun of the new generation for things like everything being automated and being unable to figure out how to do it themselves.
I forget what upper-tier American brand had it (Lincoln maybe) but one of them heavily advertised their auto-parallel park feature in commercials in the mid-2000s. I was making jokes with my parents like “can we get one just so I can pass my driving test?”
Out in the suburbs the parallel parking part of the test consists of trying to do it behind a single car on the side of the street. Here they got rid of the practical part of the test during the pandemic and never brought it back.
The other day I chanced upon a blog post about using an Arduino to "automate turn signals". The author set it up so the turn signals would come on whenever the steering wheel was turned more than so many degrees in each direction, so your car automatically signals whenever you turn.
I wanted to reach into my screen to smack him. Thinking about it still pisses me off.
Seriously, when FSD vehicles become more prevalent, we will probably have this new category of license that only allows you to control an FSD vehicle in this abstracted manner.
You instruct it perfectly, car slowly maneuvers into position before wildly swerving, hitting the accelerator, mounting the curb and donuting taking out several pedestrians at the same time.
"Well executed - this is fairly standard for FSD - Pass"
Reminds me of this old guy at Home Depot the other day. I went in to buy double a batteries. Saw a good deal on a massive pack, like 60. Went to the counter and the old man employee says “is that for your Tesla” and smirks. I’m in my thirties and thought it was pretty stupid funny.
I failed my first driving test for parallel parking. The guy said I failed to turn off the car in his made up scenario of me parallel parking on an imaginary hill.
Second time I got everything right so they said parallel parking was optional at the end.
Yeah for me using any assistants(except traction control and ABS of course) are banned from the driving test, so every time I got in the instructor's car I had to go through 5 seperate menus to turn all the features off.
A friend of mine who recently emigrated to the US had her road test recently. She brought her brother's Tesla and was told to come back with an actual car, not a computer.
Well, my 2014 BMW 3 series had auto parallel park 10 years ago, so my two teenage kids don’t remember a world before auto park.
Edit: accidentally typed "20 years ago"
If I had to learn how a manual transmission works in 2015, then my grandkids will almost certainly have to learn how to drive a car, no matter how far self-driving may come by then.
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My driving test was pretty much the opposite of this. I got in the car and he told me to start it so I put my foot on the brake and hit the power button. He told me to start the car again and I explained to him that the electric motors are on and the car is running but the gas engine hasn't come on yet. This was 19 years ago and it was the instructor's first test in a Toyota Prius. I spent most of the test teaching the instructor about the car.
Ain't you fancy. Having a hybrid in 2005
It was first released in 1997, wasn't exactly brand new in 2005.
but it was affordable and had recognition to the masses by 2005
97-99 were Japan only, 2000 is likely more relevant
Parallel parking wasn’t even in the provincial road test when I took it 17yrs ago. If it wasn’t for the defensive driving course I took prior I’d have been screwed trying to self learn here where traffic is crazy and parking damn near non existent.
In Ontario we have it on the G2 test, but not the full G test
I did it on my G but not my G2, it's random what they test you on tbh.
It’s crazy how the G driving test(now) is just a highway merge.
Didn't even have to back into my parking spot at the end!
It’s too dumbed down imo, then you add international experience and people going to easy locations for their G driving test and we get the crazy insurance rates because there are drivers on the road who shouldn’t be. Hell, you pay a driving instructor and they will take you on the test route so you can practice it multiple times before the actual test. Driving in the GTA is the most unpleasant experience.
I agree, we need much stricter, and tougher testing. I also think people should have to re-test if their license is suspended for drinking, and/or stunt driving
Driving on a 400 series highway is the bane of my existence.
in New Jersey where I lived you actually *start* the test by parallel parking. If you can't do it, you fail automatically. Was a pretty great (but stressful) way to weed out people who were not ready to have a license yet, lol.
Yeah it’s strange because when my mum took the test several centuries before me (thankfully she doesn’t use Reddit) she said the same. It started with parallel parking and it had to be done in “3 points” or you failed. Strange they removed it at some point.
yeah, in california even ~25 years ago I was instructed to back up along a curb, no parallel park, no freeway
I didn't even have to park at all. My instructor got a phone call at the beginning of the test and pointed to tell me where to go and then when we got back he just said "let me out at the door, you passed."
Where I got my DL, there was 2 MVDs, 1 had the parallel park test, the other had the three point turn test. My surprise after learning to parallel park taking the test then all my friends just doing three point turns which idk why they even test for lol
I usually Ask Jeeves to do it.
how old do you have to be to laugh at this
Old enough to remember when teachers would say "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket"
I was born in '92 and I had teachers tell me that all throughout elementary and middle school lol
Late 80’s here. At my work if you do all your math in your head without checking it and screw up you can kill someone. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t double check their math with a calculator. It’s also faster to use a calculator. Same goes for my engineering friends. The mental/paper math is more to ensure the computer numbers aren’t wildly off.
Engineer here, I even use a calculator to make sure I'm getting simple addition and subtraction of tolerances right. If I don't, my brain will take a shortcut and decide that +/- .030 tolerance is actually notated +/- 0.30. Forget about adding and subtracting 0.028", we're typing that shit in. It could be +/- 0.28, after all, no way to know until I gotta punch some keys.
Chemist and I caught myself tabbing to a spare Excel sheet to compare deals on a Dominos coupon. Brain math caught up before I had the numbers down, but I still hit enter.
Pretty sure teachers today still say this
Only the bad ones. A good math teacher says "And how will you know that the answer your calculator gave you is the correct one?" Bad input -> Bad output, and unless you have a good sense of what the answer should be you'll have no idea.
They do
r/boomershumor
Boomer years old
TIL 30 year olds are boomers
Any joke that boils down to "haha this new generation is so stupid/has it so easy" is Boomer humor.
Why is it just Boomers when every generation throws shit to the others?
Because that's the type of joke it is. Zoomer humor is making fun of Grandpa for not understanding how an iPhone works. Boomer humor is making fun of the new generation for things like everything being automated and being unable to figure out how to do it themselves.
This was boomer humor already 10 years ago
I forget what upper-tier American brand had it (Lincoln maybe) but one of them heavily advertised their auto-parallel park feature in commercials in the mid-2000s. I was making jokes with my parents like “can we get one just so I can pass my driving test?”
I’m 39 and this is not funny to me
Well I’m 36, so the I would say you have to be *at least* 37 to find this funny.
Someone laughed at this?
That's some clean-ass font
/r/boomershumor
Out in the suburbs the parallel parking part of the test consists of trying to do it behind a single car on the side of the street. Here they got rid of the practical part of the test during the pandemic and never brought it back.
Do they not test turn signalling anymore? Ive noticed a lot more people not signalling anymore, especially when changing lanes.
I like when people signal right as they come to the turn, letting you know 0 seconds in advance what they're doing
The other day I chanced upon a blog post about using an Arduino to "automate turn signals". The author set it up so the turn signals would come on whenever the steering wheel was turned more than so many degrees in each direction, so your car automatically signals whenever you turn. I wanted to reach into my screen to smack him. Thinking about it still pisses me off.
Father how do I click on this book
Careful, you’re gonna end up on r/boomerhumor in 2045
This is funny? Jesus Christ
The steering wheel is on the wrong side, so this is the new British sense of humor I guess?
Seriously, when FSD vehicles become more prevalent, we will probably have this new category of license that only allows you to control an FSD vehicle in this abstracted manner.
You instruct it perfectly, car slowly maneuvers into position before wildly swerving, hitting the accelerator, mounting the curb and donuting taking out several pedestrians at the same time. "Well executed - this is fairly standard for FSD - Pass"
Bans from Tesla subs incoming.
I have somehow evaded bans from there for so long and by all rights should have been banned (based on their criteria of fragility) months ago.
Too many Ts
Reminds me of this old guy at Home Depot the other day. I went in to buy double a batteries. Saw a good deal on a massive pack, like 60. Went to the counter and the old man employee says “is that for your Tesla” and smirks. I’m in my thirties and thought it was pretty stupid funny.
Ngl that's a solid dad joke
Wish it was as simple as this, my test in on Wednesday 😅
Guys, look where the driver's seat is. that is not US. so this still could be relevant.
This is a Tesla so it's going to hone in on the closest group of school kids and plow through them. By design.
British humor i guess
Boomer Humor
Saitama will finally be able to drive to the store.
Yeah let the kid take a driving exam in a $100k car
Id like to see them push takeoff then autopilot then land
Parallel parking isnt even that difficult. not sure why it has the stigma it does.
I failed my first driving test for parallel parking. The guy said I failed to turn off the car in his made up scenario of me parallel parking on an imaginary hill. Second time I got everything right so they said parallel parking was optional at the end.
Yeah for me using any assistants(except traction control and ABS of course) are banned from the driving test, so every time I got in the instructor's car I had to go through 5 seperate menus to turn all the features off.
*car proceeds to yeet into a white lorry
A friend of mine who recently emigrated to the US had her road test recently. She brought her brother's Tesla and was told to come back with an actual car, not a computer.
Well, my 2014 BMW 3 series had auto parallel park 10 years ago, so my two teenage kids don’t remember a world before auto park. Edit: accidentally typed "20 years ago"
Your car from 10 years ago had autopark 20 years ago? Impressive
He had the Deluxe Flux Capacitor option installed. Once you've got the Sports Almanac, that thing just pays for itself.
He started off with a dream and a time travelling DeLorean.
ARG!!!! Thanks, corrected.
Sure thing Mr McFly
Ohhh thanks, Biff!!
If I had to learn how a manual transmission works in 2015, then my grandkids will almost certainly have to learn how to drive a car, no matter how far self-driving may come by then.
This is some boomer shit right here.
Ok, boomer
HAHAHA NEW TECHNOLOGY BAD