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Originally Posted by roxiesmom333
...I have terrible depth perception and usually have to get back in the car to adjust my parking. ...When I went to get a rent a car the guy asked me if the other party had insurance & when I said the other party was a deer, he said "oh, they never have insurance!lol  |
Lol, "they never have insurance"!
True! You know, to see the front of my car, you'd
think I was a really bad driver. It's pretty bunged up, but one side was the
ex hitting a deer. The front and other side are from the scammer (I barely thumped. He only got a scratch on his spare tire, but my hood torqued up and a bunch of the grill snapped off and bits are
still falling off...).
On depth perception, I avoid parallel parking if at all possible. Having lived where it's not common for soooo many years didn't help. No practice. I check parking pretty often too. Funny thing is, it's only the slow close-up stuff that gives trouble.
On the road it's no problem at all -- I'm freakishly good at perceiving the slightest slow down ahead of me and am a fanatic about being centered in the lane. You'll never see me wandering, short-cutting a curve or swinging out to make a turn!
"Available space" brought to mind a funny. On my driver's test (
long ago), there was a box truck parked and a car coming from other direction. For a split second, I thought I should just stay put because that would be what the tester would expect. But I knew there actually
was sufficient space and went for it. And there was. But the tester didn't like that(!) Lol.
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Originally Posted by dark_heart_x
... I get lost. I start to panic and think I'm going to hit other cars. I can't see well at all at night. ...
I read somewhere once from another country (I'm in the US,) that people diagnosed with bipolar there get their licenses removed.
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I get lost a lot too and panic (magnitude based on where I'm supposed to be going). But if overtaken by it, I pull over if possible. I'm not big on driving at night anymore (and with rain? nothankyou!) and avoid it. Nothing's ever happened, it just makes me uncomfortable.
I don't know about the
dx resulting in revocation, but pretty sure I recall a question about if one had a mental illness (though it might have said "condition") that could potentially effect driving. I answered "no", because I don't think it's any of their damn business and my record speaks for itself. I don't think it's an unusual question of apps. Unusual, no, but wrong, yes. Imo. Strongly. There are
plenty of terrible drivers out there w/o dxs, you know?!
The
vast majority! I think it's sheer predjudice and ignorance. How about some common sense, people?! Let's assess one's license on one's actual record!