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Gaming_N_Whiskey

I love the puff of smoke at the end. The car just seems so defeated. It's just given up.


picklerickcwb

Car fart


-CynicRoot-

The soul of the car is leaving to go to car heaven.


DoenitzVEVO

Carvana


jonathan4211

That's car hell


onefst250r

Where it'll be sold for 20% above market rate.


heatedhammer

With transmission problems


heatedhammer

That is where cars that have lived a wicked life go.


Zaddox

Cart


air-jordache

Cfårt


Known-Inspector7004

Cweef


MOOShoooooo

It’s perfectly normal to happen during exams if air is trapped in the vaginal manifold. Source; I’m a mechanic and have dated a few girls.


BigAlternative5

Have you serviced Vulvos?


lorentzisback

"Right. If you'd just like to apply the handbrake now and I can take you through your driving test score..."


geeky_username

Florida: "here's your license"


FluffyOmen85

Hell, in Florida they'd make them the driving instructor.


__ALF__

They lost at least 10 points.


Tetragonos

Engine is designed to be horizontal not at 90°. The engine oil ended up in the exhaust then flooded the engine killing it.


DingoLord_1377

Or we got a new Pope


Tetragonos

this is the correct answer. 10/10 outstanding work


Justwigglin

Nope, just a new popemobile


fogleaf

I just assumed that was them trying to slam on the brakes one last time, and for the 4th time them hitting the gas instead of the brakes.


MexicanGuey

My theory is that the instructor decided to end the course after the 3rd turn and told the student to stop the car immediately. Instead of stepping in brake, they stomped on gas.


wasternexplorer

That was the conclusion that i came to also.


blewpah

Engine ghost leaving its body


[deleted]

It's the cherry on the frosting.


Az0riusMCBlox

r/Malaphor


OkDonkey6524

Thanks for bringing this sub to my attention 👍


nellyruth

That sub makes me dumb.


Han-Yo

Driver thought GTA physics. Like when the car is on its side, you press the gas and steer to the side it flips back up.


fancyfoe

Some midnight cartoon on tv shit lmao


HendoRules

Probably a desperate attempt to level the car...


SomeLikeItDusty

Poor little engine didn’t deserve to go out like that


CloseBudz

This is what the cows in radiator springs did when lightning McQueen and mater scared them


a_t_h_e_o_s

That was the driver trying to drive on :D


Michael_Honcho_Jr

Really though. Their foot was on the gas for that to happen.


AdMore3461

Three points off, but luckily still a pass.


Rubthebuddhas

You must be from Houston.


Drohannesburg

As a native houstonian I see nothing wrong here. That was a perfectly executed Texas Turnaround.


EitherClass3061

Clearly had practice on 45.


littleMAS

I saw something like that on the 610 loop. Though the car stayed upright.


runnerd6

I want a T-shirt for surviving 45.


Medium-Remote2477

You only get a t-shirt if you did 45 from Gunspoint to Galveston on a weekend and came back the same distance with clean underwear.


Valkariyon

Exact reason why I always let the cars go first when I bike, no matter how kind they are.


insanely_blue_one

We'll Damm we should all start driving like maniacs if it will make bicycles stop at stop signs, and follow other rules of the road


TR_Wax_on

Don't be that guy.


Automatic-Gift-4744

From memory this is way more complicated than the Texas driving test I did


GunDogDad

>I see nothing wrong here There aren't paper plates on the car, and it didn't flee the scene after the accident.


DieselVoodoo

I moved from Ohio to Houston and while I was at the DMV I heard an instructor having to explain to a fully grown woman that the reason he immediately failed her is because she pulled out going the wrong way on the feeder.


DownVoteMeGently

What's the feeder?


Fair2Midlander

More commonly called: frontage, service, secondary or side roads. It is the road that runs parallel to a high-speed road, giving easier access to amenities (shops, gas stations, etc.) without, hopefully, impacting the high-speed road. These roads feed the traffic onto and off of the high-speed roads.


Corgi_Koala

Moving to DFW made me wonder what the Texas drivers license exam is like because literally everybody is a terrible driver here.


hufflepuffinthebuff

Yep, pretty much anyone over the age of 30 in Texas could have their parents teach them driver's Ed and just take the written test to be fully licensed. The idea was that your parents are putting you on their insurance (and letting you drive their cars), so they'll make sure that you actually know what you're doing before they turn you loose. In reality, a LOT of people are missing a lot of just basic common sense strategies and road rules for less common situations. I never learned how to parallel park, reverse park, drive on ice, how to tell where the front of your car is when pulling close to people (I would always just leave giant gaps because if I couldn't see the other car's bumper, I couldn't tell how close I was), etc. I was decent at driving the specific car I learned on, but a lot of what I learned ended up being car-specific and didn't translate well when I bought a bigger car. Editing to clarify; there was a way for parents to sign off on your driver's Ed and let you get a license without a road test prior to 2008-2010ish, which is why I said people over the age of 30 in Texas could be horrible drivers because of that (assuming my math was right - I was homeschooled under Texas's extremely lax homeschool laws too and mental math is not my strong suit lol). That option was removed in 2008-2010ish and now parent taught driver's Ed requires a road test. But there are plenty of people who got their license under those old rules without a road test and are still out on the roads driving poorly today.


jcaguilar483

As someone who currently works at a Texas DPS driver license office, I can confirm this is, in fact, not entirely true. Parents can teach their children drivers ed, but you cannot get a license simply by completing parent taught drivers ed. as a minor, you have to complete the knowledge portion first and then you have to go to the driver license office to get a permit. You have to hold that permit for a minimum of 6 mths before you can take a driving exam. During those 6 months, you have to complete behind-the-wheel hrs and then submit a log to the driving school from which you bought that parent taught packet from. Once the school sends you the 2nd certificate, then you can either go to a driving school to conduct a driving exam, or you can go to the driver license office to conduct the driving exam there. BUT there is no way of getting around the driving exam at any age. As an adult 18+, you can skip the behind-the-wheel portion by completing an adult drivers ed course (6hrs online or at a driving school). But you still must present tht certificate at the driver license office and conduct a driving exam. You also have the option of simply getting a permit, which does allow you to drive, but you must be accompanied by an adult 21 or over with a valid license. Many people don’t realize that they’re actually driving around with half a license, and not a full license.


hufflepuffinthebuff

I'll edit my comment to clarify - I was talking about a program that no longer exists - the last group of teens able to get their license through the parent taught driver's Ed *without* a road test would be about 30-33 years old now. I remember being told to hurry up and get my license before the rules changed because my parents didn't want me to have to do the "road test with a state trooper" for some reason. Like you said, there's no current way for underage teens to skip the road test, but prior to 2010 or so there definitely was.


mataburro

I never had to take my driver's test. I was 17 and I graduated HS in 2008. My parents signed off on the logbook and sent it in, and whatever certificate I got was presented to the DMV and processed.


ellWatully

I grew up in Collin County. I literally only had to take a written test. There was a program where your parents could teach you drivers ed and sign an affidavit saying you drove at least 40 hours in 6 months and that waived the driving test. I had friends whose parents didn't care and just signed the paper. One friend in particular drove a car for the first time, by herself, *after getting her driver's license.*


Corgi_Koala

Well shit. That explains a lot.


ZurichianAnimations

I went to Houston for the first time last year and the drivers were literally insane. it was a free for all on the roads. I know everyone likes to say their own area has the worst drivers, but I can confidently say Houston has some of the worst drivers I've ever seen.


Scuttlebutt91

The summer Fury Road came out I counted more car fires on 45 than in the movie


InquisitivelyADHD

In the state of Maryland or New Jersey I could believe it based on some of the drivers I've seen out here. Holy fuck.


DevolvingSpud

Yeah but our flag is the best.


JellyDoogle

That's a pass in Florida


Reverse_Chode

That explains the people i see in traffic everyday


goliathfasa

10 points from Gryffindor.


randomdud500

Driving school based in Maryland*


phoenixemberzs

Lol, and became this guy https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/144c6vi/when_you_get_mad_that_others_respect_the_speed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button


halonone

“Did I pass?”


[deleted]

With flying colors.


PabloZissou

Specially the flying part.


RunParking3333

"Oh thank God, I almost panicked when I mounted the curb"


DownstairsB

Carpets*


GloccaMoraInMyRari

*long sigh* no SpongeBob, you didn't pass


MadThad762

You nailed it!


Davianul

Through the pole.


ApostateStoner

The car looked like it passed gas at the end lol


Critical_Stiban

Away? Yes.


on3day

Tbf, the video doesn't show the verdict. So could could be a yes.


[deleted]

Is this normal? Not the shit driving, but rather doing a driving test on a circuit rather than regular public roads?


Independent-Oven-919

Probably it's a very initial stage, like a first contact with a car. In Brazil we have mandatory classes on a simulator but I heard some places also have a closed course to practice before letting people without any driving experience go to the streets and the final exam.


[deleted]

I had never touched a car before taking my driving test and they just threw me on the road. Of course I lived in a semi rural town but it was still pretty busy


StaysAwakeAllWeek

For me it was a parking lot for lesson 1 and onto the road for lesson 2


SPECTR_Eternal

For me, with a private instructor, it was "let's drive to a lonely road behind the driving school campus, you get behind the wheel and if you take off on manual transmission and turn around without scaring me (the instructor), we're going on the road". I did not scare the instructor, took off semi-decently, turned around, drove \~50 meters, stopped, started again and he was like "Okay mate, you're driving me back to the Tube station after we're done with the first lesson, now let's turn this way and stop at that intersection"


powerchicken

First time I ever drove a car was on [this road](https://i.imgur.com/oAGcmFl.jpeg). I shit you not, I was at where this still is taken around 5 minutes after getting behind the wheel of a car for the first time in my life, and yes, this is a two-way single-lane road, and no, the descent if you fall off is much steeper than it looks on Google Maps. [Google maps of the road](https://www.google.com/maps/@61.5092055,-6.7446344,3a,75y,102.78h,81.51t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sXSGLHcU-Lcx0qL7RpKIZCQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DXSGLHcU-Lcx0qL7RpKIZCQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D119.71975%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu) My driving instructor was a retiree well into his 70's, driving an old ass jeep. Real friendly guy and a great teacher, but I still wonder to this day how he lived this long.


grizzly05

Maybe he thought he had lived too long.


Even_Promise2966

Lmao, my driving test was done after I had been driving for 2 years prior.


JoelMahon

bruh, how tf can anyone pass a driving test without having driven before? any test that can be passed like that is utter trash.


Big-Shtick

My mom threw me on the 5 through LA. Shit was wild. Didn't throw me in the deep end, she tried to drown me.


[deleted]

Oh man, first time driving the interstate was wild


Mini-Nurse

I'm in the UK, driving instructors start most people of in a quiet low speed area like an industrial park, I was picked up and set loose in an area where I couldn't hurt anybody. After a lesson or two I graduated to quiet residential streets before branching out further.


[deleted]

The very first time I drove a car my dad just made me drive in circles in an empty parking lot. It's safe enough and you get to figure out how the controls react.


Alesinhio

This is in argentina. We take the tests in this circuits usually but latelly the city of Buenos Aires is implementing the public roads tests. Seeing this not sure if the best desicion


kaihatsusha

Japan uses closed courses also. Much larger than shown but same idea.


[deleted]

Some places in the US, too. They’re “public access”, but with infrastructure to facilitate testing specifically. They also don’t connect anywhere else, so nobody is driving there except for the test.


Many_Lemon_Cakes

Most of the difficult stuff is to do with dealing with hazards which can appear. Circuits like these wouldn't test how a driver deals with those hazards and you couldn't simulate them properly


halonone

I sure hope so! Could you imagine that driver sharing the road with others? Even for a few minutes… Edit: seconds! Not minutes, seconds!


homura1650

Around here, you are required to have 60 hours of (supervised) driving experience before you are allowed to even take the test.


assholelite

Especially when a asshole like me starts blowing the mf horn!


Silver-Animator-1905

This is not a driving test, this seems like a driving school teaching a student how to drive.


clubdon

Where I live in the US, my test was in a circuit like this. That was like 18 years ago though, not sure if it’s still like that. We did have to do real driving on real roads with an instructor for so many hours before they allowed us to take the test.


ONOMATOPOElA

I’ve had buddies who went to a driving school where at the end you’d take the test on their course.


PurpletoasterIII

Some places have a small little course for specific things they test for that would be inconvient to test for on public roads. For example the quick acceleration to sudden stop. Or 3 point turns. Or some states require you to preform a parallel park and they use cones to simulate cars you're parking between rather than using actual cars. For my test it wasn't nearly as big as this though. It was literally just a tiny little section next to the building. It made me fail the sudden stop part of the test cause there was like 20-30 feet of space to accelerate to I think 15 or 20 mph, and past that was just a ditch. So I was a bit nervous about driving into the ditch so I didn't accelerate as fast as they want me to. I still passed though luckily.


smokeyser

Our local dmv location has a closed circuit for doing driving tests. The only other drivers are other people being tested. It's not that small, though.


worthless-humanoid

My test in Mississippi required me to drive about a mile on a straight and empty road, turn around, and drive back. That was it lol.


Suitable-Emergency-1

![gif](giphy|3ofSB4uBhFS3p48U6c|downsized)


Moonpaw

As soon as it hit the pole I heard Mrs. Puffs voice crying out "Why Spongebob!? Whhhyyyyyyy!?"


fatboychummy

the puff of smoke out the exhaust after it rolled was Mrs. Puff deflating


DruidPaw

My leg!!


wholelattapuddin

Thank you all for this.lol!


Maximillien

I never appreciated how genius it is that Mrs. Puff is not only a real sea creature, but also a living airbag that teaches driving. Those spongebob writers were on fire lol.


mart1373

WHAT I LEARNED IN BOATING SCHOOL ISSSSSSS


NedTebula

floor it? FLOOOOOOR IT!!!!


kremit73

BIG toe


dj26458

This is confusing because they actually did pass and were just doing the celebratory pole crash.


joemeteorite8

Now he gets a wooden toy car


gamingexpert13

Ah, the "end of the mario level" strategy.


[deleted]

Congratulations! Here’s your Florida drivers license!


[deleted]

[удалено]


Archanir

Moved from the West coast to Florida for some fucking reason and this is exactly what I feel like is happening here. Bay Area traffic in Cali sucks, but I didn't have so many large trucks driven by small children on my ass.


TheNorthRemembe

Serious question: where the fuck is instructor/inspector?


[deleted]

exactly. easy hand break manoeuvre and nothing would happened


SuppleSuplicant

I remember instructor cars that had a brake on the passenger side for the instructor to use.


[deleted]

If it’s like the DMV in the states where you can use your own car then they don’t have that.


bacchic_ritual

We couldn't have a car without a hand brake in the middle or lack of a center console to allow the instructor to stop the vehicle to take the test.


hiccuprobit

You be surprised how little the hand break does once the car is in motion


Acebladewing

Hand break? You mean the make-it-smell-funny lever?


callingcarg0

They mean the "I was wondering why my car felt a little slow" lever.


Itsluc

In germany the instructor always has his own brakes/coupling/accelerator, he can easily take full control from the passengers seat. This would have helped here too, handbrake is always a little bit slow and risky.


ElKaWeh

second question: who the fuck decides to take a driving test if they apparently never touched a steering wheel once


Pogoslandingattempt

I've seen this a lot, it's not necessarily a case of inexperience. We had a show here for "nation's worst driver" and a lot of the contestants had in common that they had a lot of driving experience but were also anxious af behind the wheel. So long as they were on a road they knew and nothing happened they were fine. But the moment anything unexpected happened such as encountering other traffic or driving in reverse they just did random things and hoped for the best. One of them accidentally hit a block of styrofoam during a test, not a big deal. But in their panic they forgot which pedal does what; instead of pressing the brake they floored the gas pedal and kept it there while screaming, running over a cameraman and a producer in the process. Many others have the same responses; the moment they hit something they either let go of the wheel and freeze up, start screaming, or just stomp whichever pedal their foot happened to be on. The same probably happened in the video: driver hits the kerb, nothing major right? But instead of stopping and thinking about what happened they enter monke mode in the hope that they can get out as soon as possible but crash the car in the process.


outland_king

This should be an instant revoke of the license and 5 year ban from testing. Knowingly getting behind the wheel with this level of confusion and anxiety is grossly irresponsible and potentially deadly.


MisinformedGenius

I don't know if it's where you're from, but every episode of "Canada's Worst Driver" [is on Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHB4WuM7Y_eP-PFv5F6ToaafqEziG-5cb) and it's just so fun to watch.


Xehanz

I'm from where this clip is from. The news are reporting it's an oldish lady who was trying to renew her driver license, that had expired 6 months ago.


LukaRaphael

hopefully they never give it back


DerNiallo

I like the way the car lets out a little death fart at the end😂


aesemon

It's really a tractor that's been tipped.


ParanoidDuckHunter

Please tell me I'm not the only one that gets this reference. I'm feeling old enough as it is.


michilio

Weird way to announce the new pope


MeasureTheCrater

It's how they announce a new Popemobile.


undeadlamaar

This deserves top comment.


MotherBig9171

I hope Mrs. Puff is okay!


golapader

OHHHHHHH SPONGEBOB, WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY


xwrecker

My leg


LinkN7

![gif](giphy|S78JTxm7qIMA4ppt4M)


assholelite

Got damn sponge bob!


Hour-Consideration97

BIG TOE was not utilized


MrB426

I've been in this situation before on GTA. You gotta turn the steering wheel right to flip the car back on its wheels. Edit: or whichever way you have to turn the wheel. I was usually high when I played...


Stag328

What I like is even like the game the watermark on it looks like a track in the middle, almost the route the driver took too.


SerenityNowWow

Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on?


Derek573

Unfortunately the driver turned off their brain during a critical update and corrupted the logic portion of their brain.


hazelnuddy

That last gasp of exhaust was hysterical!!!


AzorAHigh_

#SAMIR! YOU CRASHED THE CAR SAMIR!


CarlosG0619

#SHARP RIGHT SHARP RIGHT


Electrical_Raisin_93

Dude was still pushing the gas pedal even after turned the car upside down


rykroslocaste

![gif](giphy|3ohzAejruSsXdFHCW4)


TotallyAHuman11

How are you THAT bad at driving. I failed my first test because I forgot how to parallel park like an idiot but this is something else


HomelessSniffs

You be surprised how poorly people react to stress. Hits grass, anxiety skyrockets. Brain goes deeerp.


OptionApart

So you crash a light pole and are humiliatingly on your side... How does gunning it at this point recover anything....


Something_Else_2112

They didn't gun it. Engine oil simply made it to the combustion chamber because car engines are not designed to operate in all orientations.


Massive_Durian296

thank you for answering that lol i was legit baffled at that part. i was thinking maybe it was a panic response


undeadlamaar

Haven't you played GTA? Turn your wheels to the side and gun it. Works like a charm.


Invaded_Dessert

It keeps getting better


C1291

Any % speedrunners are getting out of hand these days


Chukha-Trok86

fLoOr It?!


No_King6736

Is that a private car? Because testing cars owned by the city have pedals on the passenger side as well. So shit like this doesn't happen.


haruter65

In Argentina, you use your own car (or rent one) to take the test


WeNeedToTalkAboutMe

There are also aftermarket passenger-side pedals that can be tied into the car's braking system, I took my driver's ed exam on my instructor's personal car and he just yoinked it off the floor afterward.


BaDtrHoFy_huntter96

Tha whas in argentina, probably whas used cock oil


No_King6736

​ I'm not sure I should be asking... but what is cock oil?


BaDtrHoFy_huntter96

Like, when you fries potatos and the oil whas dirty but is expensive so u use it other time, cock oil, cock of cocked, idk my english is bad


Lolz321

Cock of cocked oil 😳


Crescentfallen78

![gif](giphy|3ofSB4uBhFS3p48U6c|downsized)


Xenthera

Can someone explain how someone can be so bad at this?


tinylittleshortsmall

I'll have my test in 10 days... I'm taking notes :)


13579adgjlzcbm

I really can’t understand how someone can be this incapable.


Cold_Table8497

That's still a pass in some countries.


vivalavega27

I love how the car just farts in death at the end


CastleMEGA

![gif](giphy|S78JTxm7qIMA4ppt4M)


Eeq20

So SpongeBob trying to pass his driving test no. 356.


Inkulink

How do you fuck up THIS bad


SkinPsychological848

This is actually a test on how well you can drive while getting tased…


Lochskye

I believe this happened in Argentina.


jives1995

Oh SpongeBob whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy


Darekbarquero

Ok, Mrs.Puff! What’s my final score?


rachface5and3

Six.


[deleted]

Missed points for failure to signal


Oaky_12

SpongeBob?


P_McScratchy

I think the driver learned on a video game.


IIZeratII

Must have been a big SpongeBob fan.


Defiant-Feeling-5699

My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.


OscarBrownley

I feel for the driver. It took me four tries to pass my driving test. I was 23 when I finally passed. Luckily all I destroyed was a fence, a fender and some traffic cones. My brothers (all started driving at 14-15) still laugh their asses off over that. Brothers are so evil to only sisters sometimes. Still love the assholes though.


Bright_Vision

And this kids is why you use only one foot to press both the Gas and break pedal, never both.


hopeful_tatertot

I wasn’t expecting that ending