Ah driver's training. The one class where, no matter how academically useless you are, you can still pass by showing up. Here in America, we take great pride in putting people with absolutely zero meaningful training on the roads. Don't believe me? Watch an episode of the show Cops and tell me that we have a good driver's training system.
In most areas of the United States, you can start driving (in a limited manner) when you are 14 years and 9 months old. Most states will give you a full license at the age of 16. In the intervening months, you simply have to complete two classroom education segments, often "taught" by an obese elderly man that likes to play videos that explain in mind-numbing detail why crashing is bad, log 50 hours of driving, pass a written test, and get an instructor to sign off on a road test that includes impossibly difficult tasks such as parallel parking, a task which could most likely be completed by a hydrocephallic iguana, and not veering out of your lane whilst travelling down the highway.
If you explained this process to someone from Sweden, they would stare at you shocked, offer you some meatballs, assemble a table, and then be confused a bit more. You see, in Sweden, a license cannot be obtained until a driver is 18 years of age. The 18 year old in question must pass an absolutely brutal theory test, and complete multiple driving tests that simulate every type of road condition imaginable. Students are taken out onto a skidpad. Students do the slalom in the snow. Students are taught how to drive.
Between this skill and the corporate domination of Ikea, I fear that the Swedes may soon take their place at the head of a terrifying new world order. All will eat meatballs, complete transactions with the krona, and fill their homes with preassembled couch sets. Wait, is this a bad thing?
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