RE: Surviving the Passenger Seat: The Ultimate Parental Stress Test Begins
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Usually my country makes the top of the list for all the wrong reasons, but in this case I'm glad we have a very different system. In Romania, there's no such thing as teaching kids to drive. You need to enroll to a driving course, which is held by professional, licensed driving instructors. You can enroll a couple of months before you turn 18, but can't take the exam before you turn 18.
So basically you start driving with a professional, licensed instructor in a car that is marked as "driving school" and has pedals on both sides. If you do something very stupid, the instructor can step in and save the situation. There's a certain number of driving hours you have to take, before taking the exam, set by law and if the instructor thinks you're not ready, they won't sign your papers, so you'll have to take more lessons. There are theoretical classes too, where you learn about the rules and some mechanical things too.
When you're ready, you take the theoretical exam, if you pass, you go to the practical, driving part, with the police. There's no other way and trust me, I would not swap this system with what you have there.
Anyway, I hope you won't lose your hair in the process and your son is going to take it seriously and passes. Good luck! (I'm sure we're going to get some updates about the process 😆)
I must admit that I do like your system. I do believe that we see it as some kind of freedom and of course less expensive how you want to prepare the next generation of drivers.
As long as I only would loose sole grey hair, it would be fine. Mmh but that would make me bold.