Robert said:
I did my DL in Texas. Got 4 out of 4 points taken off for not
being able to parallel park at all, and 2 out of 2 for not being
able to go backwards in a straight line. The four turns I had to
take were all at 4-way stop intersections, and the examiner told
me later that I should not only stop but also look left and
right. And when taking turns I shouldn't be swerving all over the
intersection.
Then he charged me $16 and gave me my license.
robert
PS: I also didn't have power steering, but the car was a Honda
Civic ;-)
When I took my drivers test after moving to Florida the instructor
was going to fail me for not looking both directions while making a
three point turnaround. I asked her to look in the other direction and
tell me if she didn't see that the road was a dead end with a high fence
across it, and a very large stand of trees. Then I told her that if
something was going to hit me through all of that, that I had more to
worry about than looking down 20 feet of dead end street. She told me
that she was still going to fail me. I just smiled and told her that I
would be happy to explain it to her supervisor, and to my boss at the TV
station. She signed my papers. ;-)