You may be a good driver, or more precisely, a lucky driver, but obviously you know nothing about statistics
Well, I received my license in first attempt, got 60 marks in my theory test and that too in first attempt. I am an Asian, by my looks I am no way closer to white race.
Well, when I say 60 marks that doesn’t mean that I might have got them by sheer luck, of course I studied hard, grasped all rules, and applyied the rules while driving, payed attention to all of the signs while driving on the road.
During my driving test, I came across all of the scenarios. First my examiner asked me to check whether the car is having right amount of engine oil, for which I opened the bonnet and found the dipstick, which is fitted in a tube located on the side of the engine block. Then, while exiting the traffikverket office, there was a STOPP sign, for which I clearly stopped behind the hard line and closely looked for any oncoming vehicles. My examiner instructed me for parallel parking (which I did in single attempt) quite close to the traffikverket office itself, reverse parking between 2 cars for which he especially asked me to drive towards a shopping centre. While travelling towards shopping centre, he payed attention to how did I cross the railway line. Then how I drove at the round about, i.e. whether I stopped and gave way to the vehicles coming from left on the round about. While returning, he payed attention whether I applied the right hand rule for non-priority road and gave way to the vehicle coming from the road on the right of the intersection. He also took me to the motorway where the upper speed was 100 and I precisely drove between 99-101 kmph. Then on exiting, I didn’t apply the breaks till I exited and applied the breaks as soon as I reached towards 70kmph limit and gradually reached to 70kmph (not sudden breaks).
While congratulating me for passing the exam, my examiner didn’t give a single comment to me and in fact quoted that ”he felt safe while I was driving”, which is a sort of a compliment, isn’t it.
I knew the statistics even before appearing for the exam, i.e. 28% pass rate in first attempt. And because of these statistics, I’d put more hard work in giving the exam. I practiced for around 6 months, enrolled in a driving school, gave a lot of mock theory tests, read the whole theory book 4 times (literally). I even asked my driving school teacher to take a mock driving exam.
It is super convenient to infer the hard work done by a person as ”luck”. So, after reading above explanation/scenarios given to me in the exam, do you consider me a ”lucky driver” as well?