It's something I try to reassure my learners about: the examiner doesn't care if you go in the wrong direction so long as what you did to get there was safe and legal.
Obviously, don't take the piss and make up your own route, but taking a couple wrong turns will never fail you your test.
this is a very real condition. my wife has a phd in experimental physics and can NOT remember which is which. if she looks at her hands she has a trick (the L your thumb and index fingers make is the correct orientation) but say "turn right!" to her and you might have well just made the muted trumped voice from the old peanuts cartoons
Does she remember whether she's right or left handed? Just as a static fact about herself? I feel like it should be easy to reconcile an instruction like "turn right" by cross-referencing the knowledge of "I'm left handed" with "this is the hand I prefer to use".
Maybe it’s not something where they remember they’re right or left handed based on that specific thing, but just that they prefer using the hand on that side.
That sounds weird. You wouldn’t need to understand the concept of left and right to know you have a dominant hand. You would just innately know one hand is the dominant one and the other isn’t. If I told my cat that a treat was behind the door on the left he’d be like “wtf is left bruh”, but he almost always bats at shit with his right paw.
truuuust me she's tried everything you can think of. I find it surprising that she cant remember right as in correct as in dominant hand but she cannot. its honestly a little baffling
I have a problem with it a little bit. It aggravates the fuck out of me when I’m dealing with screws, especially if I’m screwing something in upside down or from around the back.
I literally hate myself. :p
I dont have this problem and thats tricky for me also
Try thinking of a clock. Most screws get tighter when turned clockwise. When time moves forward, your schedule gets tighter. Like the screw.
I'm not sure it'll help, but since it's a rotational reference for a rotational target, maybe it'll help.
Personally I'm constantly drawing circles with my finger like a clock hand and then positioning my hand to face the screw while still drawing circles. It helps a lot.
Can confirm. Had it my whole life. If you shout “turn right,” there’s a 50/50 chance I’ll get it right, but my brain is just guessing. I have to stop and think about it to know for sure. I would make a shit Rally driver…
Yup, my husband is the same way. It makes for fun road trips when he's the navigator đź’€
I told my partner to turn left an intersection and she couldn't remember which was which, so she went straight ahead instead. Like the choice locked her up, and resulted in no action being taken at all. I assume we would have driven into a building if it had been a T-junction
Tbh same, I don't have to do the hand thing anymore though I just have to take a second to imagine me doing it, and that's enough.
I wrote L and R on my hands for the driving test
the advice I got before driving was: your left hand is the one where the thumb is pointing to your right hand
and I still think about it
It's perfectly okay to go the wrong way on the driving test in the UK, as long as you do so safely. Sometimes there are complicated places and weird roundabouts, it's better if you're in the wrong lane to commit to it
And also that you communicate that you're aware what you've done, and how you're going to continue.
I did it on mine, and said "I've just come off at the wrong exit, so I'm going to just continue along here."
Examiner said it was OK, and just directed things back onto the route at the next junction.I didn't even say this lol. They just informed me after calmly and gave me new directions.
The guy who did my driving test (US) generally did not tell me which way to turn at interactions or Ts and would get angry if I hadn't guessed correctly. Apparently, it was very obvious to him where I should be going, and he shouldn't have had to tell me.
At the time, my area held the test in the city with the worst designed roads. Experienced drivers (such as me today) can easily take wrong turns there. It's like each stretch of road between intersections was independently designed by different people who never communicated.
Same here in Germany, if you only do it once or twice safely you will still pass. I dont know if you would pass if you do it every time. I sometimes also confuse left and right, but it only happened in the lessons a few times, not in the test.
Should've tried to argue that turning right is safer so they're just going to make three rights
Only if anon is in a country which drives on the right.
No, they can still argue it, but it'd just be more stupid and wrong
Two wrongs don’t make a rightThree rights do make a left
Sitting there muttering to himself something about non-euclidean geometry.
I did that once the instructor almost slapped me, then I accelerated a little when I noticed a branch a bit longer than it should be and his window open so the branch gives him a good slaps then he got mad and I had to retake the test with a different instructor, needless to say I had my fun around them all then I took it the fifth time when I got no more humourous tricks left up my sleeves
That’s a hell of a spin you just put on failing the driving test 5 times.
