How nice for you for having THE one faultless parent of the world. Perhaps you’re right and if you are : consider this post wasn’t ever for you to personalize and move on. I’d Have nothing to more to say to you. Would be pointless anyways.

If not and you have doubts: read on. And if you respond we will both know you’ve got doubts :

I’ve learned of drivers who have mowed down road workers and called no fault on a bad technicality of the insurance. Some in multiple accidents PER YEAR and let off on technicality. It means nothing. They still nearly killed a person. They’d still fail a test. They are still a bad driver. They should not teach. They shouldn’t even have a license. They should be in jail and have a therapist.

Or perhaps you’re some random poster that is still stuck under the heavy illusions of thinking their parent is a superhero, that’s how a lot of arrogant drivers believe themselves to be. ‘Faultless’.

When someone is teaching you: your failure is their failure. Your faults are theirs.

If You still believe that parent is faultless and they blame you if you fail cuz they’ll believe they are perfect and that it’s you to blame if you keep flunking tests.

Cuz that parent is living under the illusion of ‘faultless’. You see how that works? You can’t be both faultless and a teacher of a failure. Cuz a ‘faultless’ title takes no blame.

Hence why I waited til I could just afford it. I knew my options were all very terrible and arrogant drivers who just said ‘well I’m not technically at fault’ and they treated driving like it was a minor thing that everyone else on the road is always at fault. A giant box capable of killing …‘no big deal’

that wasn’t good enough for me and instilled no faith.

Honestly the only pressure to drive was an illusion anyways so there’s really no such thing as ‘too old’. I don’t know why people put that unnecessary pressure on themselves. For sure living in the city did make it easier to wait. Things are much more convenient to get to.

And people should take time to learn it. Cuz learning to drive is a big deal. And it should be a heavy cost. It should be a super hard test. It’s a vehicle that is capable of killing people. It is a weapon in the wrong hands.

I Don’t regret my decision for a moment to take my time and take the extra defensive driving courses to learn in multiple license types. In some really surprising personal cases it was the difference of being in an accident and deciding technicality or not being in the accident at all.(not to say all accidents are avoidable, you just have to do the best you can at keeping the road safe)

Check them mirrors every 5-9 seconds. Stay out of the blind spot. Always check your blind spot. Know your dimension. And for the love of potatoes: Do NOT drive when tired. Nothing is so important that you need to get behind the wheel when tired. If it were: you’d get someone to drive you. And don’t play the ‘while it hasnt killed me yet’ cuz the chance just didn’t happen yet. Maybe you don’t have much value in your own life but You can kill or maim a person while asleep.

And if that doesn’t concern you: you just shouldn’t have a license and should check into some deep mental therapy on how to connect with humanity instead. Get a friend to drive you. Or take a bus. Just never take the wheel.