Driving Test

Arrival Checklist:

• A driving test will start with the following checklist:

• Turn on engine
• Adjust your rear view mirrors
• Adjust your side mirrors
• Turn on the emergency lights
• Turn on low-beam headlights
• Turn on high-beam headlights
• Use left and right signal lights
• Show the arm signals to turn left, right, and stop
• Turn on brake lights
• Pull the parking brake
• Roll down the driver window
• Turn on your windshield wipers.
• Turn on the defroster
• Blow the horn
• Open the passenger door
• Open the glove box
• Put on the seat belt

Information:

• There are few items the examiner will look out for during the driving test. 
• Current regulations say that you may not miss more than the following:
• 3 items in the Arrival Checklist
• 15 items in the Driving Test
• 0 items in the Automatic Failing Errors

• There are few errors that will result in an Automatic Fail:
• Speeding
• Right-of-way violation
• Not following safety personnel or safety vehicles
• Striking or Hitting of objects or the curb
• Lane violations
• Not following the traffic sign or signal
• Driving dangerously
• Use of auxiliary equipment (e.g. cellphone)
• Not following examiner's instruction

Driving Test:

• Driving out of the parking lot:
  • Are you speeding?
  • Are you watching out for other pedestrians?
• Driving out of the DMV onto a residential area:
  • Are you watching out for traffic?
  • Are you following the traffic signals?
  • Are you speeding?
  • Do you leave enough space to other cars?
  • Are you in the correct lane?
• Changing lanes:
  • Are you watching out for traffic?
  • Are you following the traffic signals?
  • Are you speeding?
  • Do you leave enough space to other cars?
  • Are you in the correct lane?
  • How is your steering control?
  • Are you looking over the appropriate shoulder?
• Intersections going straight with right-of-way:
  • Are you checking out the traffic?
  • Are you doing an unneccessary stop?
  • Are you yielding?
  • Are you speeding?
• Stop Sign:
  • Are you checking out the traffic?
  • Are you yielding?
  • Are you braking correctly?
  • Are you doing a full stop?
  • Are you close by the stop line?
• Freeway or Highway driving (entering, merging, passing, exiting):
  • Are you checking out the traffic?
  • Are you signaling correctly?
  • Are you speeding?
  • Are you leaving enough space in front of you?
  • Are you in the correct lane?
  • How is your steering control?
• Driving backwars:
  • Are you checking out the traffic?
  • Are you signaling correctly?
  • Are you speeding?
  • How is your parallel steering control?
  • Are you looking through the rear-view window?
• Three point turn:
  • Are you checking out the traffic?
  • Are you signaling correctly?
  • How is your steering control?
• Turns:
  • Are you checking out the traffic?
  • Are you signaling correctly?
  • How is your steering control?
  • Are you decelerating/braking?
  • Are your turns too wide or too narrow?
  • Are you doing unnecessary stops?
  • Are you stopping at the limit line?