{"id":12488,"date":"2013-05-06T08:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T07:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=12488"},"modified":"2023-04-12T22:17:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T21:17:54","slug":"costa-rica-7-out-of-10-fail-new-driving-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=12488","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rica: 7 Out Of 10 Fail New Driving Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This story from Costa Rica<\/a> says that the failure rate of a new driving test – a preliminary one, which learners have to pass before they can drive unaided – \"costa_rica\"<\/a>is 65%. It says that causes of failure have shaking hands, knocking over cones, not being able to reverse, and even knocking over the examiner!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently, those who have hit the examiner claim it was just \u201cbad luck\u201d. However, the Costa Rican Times correctly asks if it would still be \u201cbad luck\u201d if they knocked over a child while out on their own. Some individuals have failed 15 times so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it seems that Costa Rica has exactly the same problems that we do, with a surfeit of cynical know-it-alls. It goes on to suggest that since the test costs $10, it is possible that people are failed deliberately in order to increase revenue, and it cites failed candidates claiming that the test and examiners are \u201ctoo strict\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People the world over need to get it into their heads that ANY system run by human beings is open to corruption. A small amount cannot be proven, but a large amount can. Trying to talk one up into the other is the favoured approach of the typical looney\/conspiracy theorist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n