Story time:
The first time I took my driving test, the evaluator said ‘pull out of your parking space’, which I did very precisely, stopping at the street where the test started.
Then he said ‘turn right at this street’, so I did – and made the semi-truck coming down that road lay on his horn a bounce a bit to avoid hitting me. I failed before we even started.
I was so focussed on his instructions that I lost all situational awareness.
I took more classes, then spent a few years as a delivery driver, so I actually learnt to be a very good driver. But my first test was abysmal.
If you think this kind of thing is bad, you should have seen some of the turkeys who showed up in my group when I took my MSF course way back when. If you think a lot of people shouldn’t be driving cars, I suspect even more of them have no business being on a motorcycle.
I think you misunderstand me.I wasn’t saying people shouldn’t be driving cars – we should learn to do as much as we cane can.
My point was that many of us start this ‘clueless’, but with support and humour we learn from each other.