Korean Driving Test - Fail!!!

[MADem]

http://metro.co.uk/2013/08/02/woman-fails-driving-test-within-ten-seconds-after-flipping-car-3909229/


The 31 second dashboard camera clip from South Korea is made even more amusing by the frantic pleas of the driving instructor who unsuccessfully tries to avert the crash.

He realises things aren’t going to plan when his student immediately swerves to the left and heads towards some hedges.

He desperately calls out for her to brake but instead she keeps going and then topples the car.

The woman shouts ‘Oh my, what do we do?’ when the vehicle turns, according to 9News.

This elicits an angry response from her passenger who replies: ‘That’s why I told you to press the brakes.

‘What were you pressing?

‘I’m going to go crazy — get out of the car.’

[Maraya1969]

1. That's hysterical!

[petronius]

2. That's hilarious, but I don't really understand how it happened

Was the embankment under those bushes really that steep, or was this just the most top-heavy car in existence?

[MADem]

3. I think it is a "hedge," not a bush.

Like the hedges that separate fields in UK, for example--it's a rise of earth and the bushes are planted atop it--like an earthen fence of sorts.

The ones in UK are pretty big, you could hide a car behind some of 'em...!

I think she went up the rise of earth and the car fell over!

[SwissTony]

4. Yes, hedges are very strong. The weight of the car is spread across several shrubs

which are planted close to each other, each of which is strong and "woody".

But why didn't he reach for the handbrake long before things got out of hand?

[MADem]

5. I don't know how they do things over there, but they should

maybe think about using those "Driver's Ed" cars with the brake on the passenger's side as well!

Perhaps the handbrake was a foot one to the left of the driver--though I haven't seen one of those very often, lately...?

[SwissTony]

6. A handbrake you use with your foot? Interesting concept.

Never heard of it, but things are presumably done differently in different parts of the world.

I learned to drove with my father i.e. no brake or clutch on the passenger side. But that was 40 years ago in Australia. At the time, all you had to have was someone with a license in the car. That meant you could be accompanied by someone who literally had got his or her license the previous day. Crazy. I think now you have to have a licensed instructor.

[MADem]

8. Yes, they're on the driver's side, closest to the door in the wheel well!

You push down hard on it with your foot to engage it (and you hear a ratcheting noise as it makes contact) and then you push it again to release it.

You can see one of them at about the fifteen second mark in this video:

[Heywood J]

7. I have one of those now. It's a parking brake that engages one of the rear brakes. (NT)