18 Completely Stupid Reasons People Failed Driving Tests

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Eric Lund
Aug 12, 2019 8:00 PM EDT

There are a lot of ways to fail a driving test. You could roll through a stop sign or forget how to use your blinker. If you're really bad, you could even hit the instructor. We're not sure why you'd want to fail a driving test. Maybe you're afraid of the scary things you could see while driving at night.

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    driving fail - Text - tacknosaddle 36.2k points 16 hours ago My dad was friends with a guy who worked for the registry giving the road test. His best story was of a kid who took his test while it was raining. He started driving without the windshield wipers on. The guy figured he was nervous so tried to give him a break saying, "It's raining pretty hard, huh." The kid was white knuckled on the steering wheel and just said, "Yeah." Again trying to give the kid a break he said, "Don't you think yo
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    driving fail - Text - 18 hours ago S 2 Mizamagician 31.9k points When I parallel parked I hit the pole behind me, and the tester said "It's fine. This should be an automatic fail but I think that's a bit too harsh". Then I hit the pole in front of me head on. Did not pass
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    driving fail - Text - iforgetredditpsswrds 29.8k points 19 hours Wasn't a kid, my 80 year old great aunt. The tester kept telling her to speed up. After a few times she said she can't see the speedometer so she doesn't know fast she is going. He made her pull over and she did not receive a renewal, thank god.
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    driving fail - Text - mcpokey 25.1k points 17 hours ago Last year I was making a left turn at a light, and a car swerved into my lane and hit me. Turns out is was someone taking their drivers test I'm not exactly sure how drivers test car insurance works, but the instructor told me we had to wait for the police and take details of everything. I am guessing the driver did not pass.
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    driving fail - Text - nightfallbear 24.0k points 17 hours ago edited 15 the kids make minor mistakes, and yes, some do make scary mistakes. However, it's the adults that scare me most. especially the seniors who are up for re-exam. probably the worst test I've ever been on was this man in his 90's. I instructed him to turn onto a street "when it is safe to do so" and he turned, narrowly missing a pedestrian. not only that, but he was driving on the wrong side of the road, he came head to head wi
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    driving fail - Text - elunstad 22.2k points 18 hours ago Took a test with a girl who drove on the wrong side of the road and took a left turn into on coming traffic all in the same drive. It was through my school and she was banned from taking it through the school because of that.
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    driving fail - Text - canth123 18.1k points 16 hours ago My grandfather used to be a tester. He had one girl forget which way to turn the steering wheel, and they ended up in a ditch
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    driving fail - Text - CoCa_Coa 13.7k points 16 hours ago I'm not a tester, but I asked my tester during my full license test what was the worst thing someone had done. Apparently there was an older gentleman who drove through 3 stop signs before the tester told him to pull over. The gentleman explained that he didn't want the license but his family was pressuring him, so ran the signs on purpose to fail (made sure no cars were coming first)
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    driving fail - Text - 16 hours ago TechyMitch1 13.3k points My driver's ed teacher said that one kid reclined his seat all the way back, put one foot on the gas and the other on the brake, and grabbed the top of the wheel with one hand and said "Let's go."
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    driving fail - Text - HIginger 23.3k points 17 hours ago My best friend's son just failed because he went the wrong way down a busy 4 lane road. Luckily, they made it safely into a parking lot and the testing administrator drove them back.
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    driving fail - Text - ILuvMyLilTurtles 12.4k points 18 hours ago I went forward instead of in reverse when the tester was standing in front of me on the curb. I failed
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    driving fail - Text - 17 hours ago . edited 6 echothree33 23.3k points My Dad did testing for a few years and he once had a girl stop on railroad tracks. There was a train coming (slowly, but still it takes them a long time to stop) and it blasted the horn right into the car (passenger side, with the window open) This just made her freeze up even more. He had to reach his foot over to her side to hit the accelerator.
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    driving fail - Text - Fourtires3rims 10.6k points 19 hours ago While I was waiting for my turn to do my CDL test I watched a guy in a semi back into a light pole and instead of seeing what he gently backed into gassed it and knocked it over. Needless to say I didn't get to take my test for an hour or so while they cleaned it up.
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    driving fail - Text - badly_behaved 4.4k points 18 hours ago As someone who worked in a DMV for many years issuing driver's licenses - even though I wasn't a license examiner -- I think I'm the closest thing to your target respondent so far. The craziest thing I ever witnessed with my own eyes was a dude who somehow managed to lose control at <15 mph, jumped the curb, and smashed into the guardrail. Needless to say, he was not issued a license. The best story I ever heard from a co- worker happe
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    driving fail - Text - 18 hours ago polic1 18.8k points Answered his phone.
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    driving fail - Text - HawkingTomorToday 2.8k points 16 hours ago ec Not a tester, but I watched my (at the time) know-it-all son do the "California Roll" through three consecutive stop signs as he was exiting the courthouse parking lot at the beginning of the test. The tester stopped the test and failed him on the spot, before he even got out of the parking lot. My son's excuse: "I thought the test hadn't started yet."
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    driving fail - Text - _NotSarah 2.2k points 17 hours ago Not a tester, but I heard about a girl in drivers ed who was driving on the interstate with the teacher and 3 other students. The teacher commented that they missed the exit, but they would just get off on the next one. I'm not sure what the girl's thought process was, but this girl pulled into the grass and tried to go against the traffic to go back to their missed exit. The teacher had to use her break on the passenger side while the 3 o
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    driving fail - Text - Dinosaursdeservelove 936 points 15 hours ago Slightly off topic, but.. My husband had to take the test twice (as a teen) because he failed it the first time. Some nitwit ran a red light and went barelling through the intersection so he breaked to avoid hitting them/getting hit. He was failed because he had right of way so he should have just kept going. And, you know, just let the other car hit them. He was pretty pissed off at being failed for avoiding an accident.
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