Responding to the article "Exhaustion during the car driving license test", I, as a woman, remember facing difficulties while learning and testing for my license, but that feeling quickly passed. The experiences during lessons and tests are only a small fraction of actual road participation. Therefore, if at 30 years old, after a few months of driving lessons, a few practice sessions on the test course, and a few instances of stopping on a hill, you already feel exhausted, mentally pressured, and overwhelmed by stress, it is best to avoid driving. This is not about your driving skill, but about ensuring public safety.

The driving test, after all, is just the beginning. During the test, you have instructors and specialized training vehicles; mistakes result in point deductions, and at worst, a retest. There are no impatient honkers, no one cutting you off, no trucks speeding at 80 km/h close by, and certainly no motorcyclists simultaneously driving, talking on the phone, and narrowly cutting in front of you. If these limited challenges already exhaust a 30-year-old, then real-world driving will undoubtedly feel like a continuous horror film without commercials.

In real life, you will face advanced challenges not covered in any textbook. These include staying calm when unfairly honked at by a car behind you, anticipating the intentions of a driver ahead who does not signal, avoiding sudden swerves from motorcycles in the innermost lane, or freezing for a few seconds when someone makes a U-turn in the middle of the highway after missing an exit. These are just a few examples among thousands, even tens of thousands, of unpredictable situations.

Furthermore, driving is not just a 30-minute test followed by a rest at home; it involves thousands of hours behind the wheel. You will drive in rain, in sun, in traffic jams, when your mood is low, or your health is not perfect. If you already feel like giving up after just a bit of learning and testing, how will you react in an emergency on the road? Will you handle it, or will you panic?

Safe driving is not for those who cannot handle pressure. It is for individuals who understand that while exhaustion is normal, alertness must be maintained, and while stress is unavoidable, control must not be lost. A driving license is not a certificate of having overcome all pressures; it is merely a ticket to a far more complex world of traffic.

Therefore, if you feel too exhausted right from the learning and testing phase, be brave enough to rest, use public transportation, call a taxi, or simply choose not to drive. Because sometimes, not driving at all is often the safest way to drive for everyone.

Reader Vu Vu