Hi guys, I failed my automatic driving test today and my parents told me to just bribe?? Is this actually a thing here?? What do I even say?? Who do I talk to?? I signed up to safety driving school who seem legit so would they even take it?? Someone plz help.

131 points

Is this actually a thing here

You would increase your chances to get helpful insight significantly if you’d clarify where “here” is. It’s a big world with a ton of countries, and this is an international place.

permalink
report
reply
53 points

Here obviously means where OP lives. :^)

permalink
report
parent
reply
11 points

License to be able to drive on lemmy, needs bribe for sure

permalink
report
parent
reply
13 points

Malaysia, based on his other posts

permalink
report
parent
reply
32 points

Been to Malaysia. They have driving tests? What are they testing, honking and trying to run people over?

permalink
report
parent
reply
15 points

Maybe that’s the answer to OP’s “is [bribes] actually a thing here”

permalink
report
parent
reply
8 points

Then it is very sadly actually the case their. My class college where wondering here in France why I had to pass it so seriously and everything and they told me they simply paid and laughed about it

permalink
report
parent
reply
64 points

Idk where you live but seriously just retake your driving test. If you failed it clearly means you have no business operating a motor vehicle and will probably kill someone or yourself or both.

permalink
report
reply
40 points
*

Where’s “here”?

In some countries they’ll fail you if you don’t bribe, even if your driving was perfect, in others they’ll just overlook small errors that aren’t too dangerous.

There are places where if you bribe they’ll let you pass even if you can barely drive, in others they’ll call the police on you if you bring it up.

Ask around locally, you should definitely not bribe if you’d be a danger to yourself and others.

permalink
report
reply
8 points

They also posted the same question to askmalaysians, maybe they’re from Malaysia?!

permalink
report
parent
reply
7 points

If they are Malaysian, this is definitely an option/might have been expected.

permalink
report
parent
reply
39 points

As a fellow road-user - please don’t.

permalink
report
reply
32 points

So you’ve learned:

  • driving tests are harder than you thought
  • your parents have ethics problems

Don’t leave your kids with your parents, is the real take-away here.

permalink
report
reply

Asklemmy

!asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Create post

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it’s welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Icon by @Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de

Community stats

  • 8.1K

    Monthly active users

  • 5.5K

    Posts

  • 303K

    Comments