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Here we have to do a 50 question written test, then six hours of practice to get a permit. Driver's license test does K turn and parallel parking. I failed both the first time (38 out of 50...needed 40 minimum) and ****ed up the parallel parking during my license test. I did it perfectly, but was nervous and tapped the cone. I was so nervous about it that I ended up ill the next day.
I hate driving in this densely populated state. Such a nightmare. NYC? Forget about it.
The speed limit is 70 km/h on the feeder and 90 km/h on the main lanes. With people driving at 70 km/h, it's not unsafe to put a gas station, given that the deceleration and accelaration lanes are adequately sized. Though I've seen the gas station waiting line spilling over the highway several times.
Post Hurricane Sandy, gas station lines backed up into the right lane of main roads, went back for a ways, jamming the whole road. Remember this one:
Thankfully, I passed both the first time. The process still took nearly 2 years (yeah took my time). The last lesson before the final test the instructor told me something in the lines of: "I see that you're taking the next next Thursday... Well, good luck, you'll really need it". Gee, driving lessons were terrible. Never again.
One of a friend of my parents [grew up in Brooklyn] said the driving school he went to was a "real driving school" where they promised you'd get what you pay for and pass. At the test, they pointed him to the instructor and he passed. Used his license for a summer college as a valet parker for Macy's, which gave him extra practice on expensive cars.
A few decades later, he had let his license lapse (lack of use living in NYC) so he had to take his road test again. The road he was on had a wide shoulder with no cars parked on it. So they thought it must be a car lane and drove on it. Tester passed him anyway, probably wouldn't if he was 18 instead.
*A shoulder is extra space on the side road that's not for driving. Sometimes used for street parking:
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