The reward of passing the advanced driving test is not just a matter of
reduced insurance, quite a few insurance companies make no reduction for
advanced motorists. It is more the satisfaction of having improved and
developed your driving skills and knowledge of driving.
<g> Like some people go to college/University to get a rich husband and a free ride through life, and some to get education (which may or may not prove to be financially rewarding)?
Yes you do have driving lessons with a more highly skilled driving instructor than those you learn to drive with, and when you take your test your examiner is a class 1
police driver.
Couldn't resist this one, either... :)
In pre-81 (when the communist system began to unravel) Warsaw, there were several govt-approved institutions which offered driving lessons and had licensing priviledges, but everyone knew that the best (and the hardest to pass) were those offered by the police. So, naturally, those were in the highest demand, with the longest waiting list. An acquaintance of mine tells this story:
She managed to get into the police drivers' ed course, passed all her theoretical exams and all her off-the-road practical ones <change the tire, take apart the engine and put it back together, etc <g>) and started her course of 10 driving lessons (which were part of the course; most people needed to arrange for an extra 5-10, paid directly to the teacher, to beging dreaming of getting a license). On her 3rd lesson, the route went past the Rakowiecka prison (those of you who'd seen Kieslowski's film "White", have seen a bit of its outside). The only prison in the middle of a sizeable city, it's also one of the two "spots" well known to everyone for "interrogations" which went on there, and hardly anyone could pass by it without gruesome thoughts.
So, they're driving by, and her teacher points to the place and says: "I used to work there for several years. Hard work, nothing like teaching little girls to drive". She looked at his ham-sized fists, and "lost it", nearly crashing the car in the process... Finished her training with another institution (they gave her credit for all the pre-road stuff she'd allready passed exams on, but had to start driving lessons -- at an extra charge -- from the beginning)
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