Most of us remember fondly the time when we first learned to drive a car. Sure, there were some less remarkable moments for all of us, but all those seem to disappear into the thick mist of that portion of our memories we try to get rid of.
Instead, we only remember the good stuff like that time we made our first impeccable parallel parking or mastered driving in reverse. But what stands out above all is that feeling of freedom having access the keys to a car and the license to operate it gives you. We were no longer tied to our parents or forced to take the train or bus. We could drive now.
Well, luckily for us, the not so fortunate incidents we automatically push toward the back of our minds were minor enough to stay there once their journey was complete. We might pull them out now and then to spice up a conversation at a dinner table when some self-irony seems appropriate, but other than that, they are confined to the oblivion.
Let's stop a moment and hold a moment for those who weren't as fortunate. People like this student in the video below who mistook the accelerator for the brake not once, but twice, with his confusion lasting for at least 12 seconds. Hell, if that stand weren't there, who's to say he wouldn't still be mixing them up as we speak?
Luckily for him, the people inside what is described as a shopping mall had quick reflexes and jumped out of the way. It almost makes us wonder whether they might have had previous similar experiences because they reacted like a group of well-trained specialists.
It all starts with a confused "uh-oh" from the learner driver, a sound which is never a good omen. The instructor then begins screaming what we can only assume means "brake," but it could as well be "idiot" or any other profanity you can think of.
The car bumps into a concrete plant pot and ricochets into an entrance column, but the student was not satisfied. Convinced that pushing the same pedal that made the car go faster will actually stop it this time, he continues to apply pressure with predictable - for anyone else - results.
It's not clear here whether this driver had passed his exam and was only a beginner, or if he was still a student hoping to get his license. If it's the former, then how on earth could he have passed? What's that? Bribe? Yeah, you could be on to something. If it's the latter, then 1) don't ever give this man a license (to kill), 2) why didn't the instructor have a second set of commands?
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