Chance of passing their driving test? No chance in hell.

I've no idea why channel ten canceled airing of The Contest in favour of some weird show where superstars spend thousands of dollars just to go to some fitness program in LA and get fit.

So, they lose a viewer, and channel 7 gets me as their latest viewer in the usual After-Dinner TV time slot.

As it happens, it is a premier of some people who can't drive. The preview was "Chance of passing their driving test? No chance in hell."

Basically, 10 people are given the chance to learn to drive. If they learn to drive, they win the car they are given (Hyundai. IT HAS AUTOMATIC WINDOWS AND AIR-CON! OMFG NO WAI! I love pointless ads).

And from the show, you can tell that some people are made to continuously pay the transport government, never to know the true joy of driving a car.

Like any typical reality show, you are shown the distress of these people, and how much fun they are having in the car. For some strange reason, they are given a manual car to drive (aussie way? Asked a friend. Don't think so). Of course, we all know that Automatic is FTW (it is!), and just watching them struggling with the clutch and god knows what else (YOU ARE IN THIRD! YOU ARE IN THIRD!), I feel sorry.

Not for them. I am a moron.

But for the car.

The way the car lurched and jumped and made all sorts of weird noise, I feel VERY sorry for the engine.

And of course, while that is all happening, you have some frantic driver (8 females and 2 males, I wonder why) trying to maintain control of their car, screaming and shouting away. In Aussie, you don't need a qualified instructor beside you as they do in Singapore, but you must have a Co-driver who has, presumably, driven for quite a period of time. So, usually, this Co-driver is a family member or a good friend.

Family members usually make the most fun stuff, especially when it is husband an wife. They get into arguments etc etc as they discuss, quite heatedly, on when to release the clutch (biting point etc etc etc).

And us the viewers get to laugh at their enjoyment, yelling "Play more Daytona!" or "Keep both hands on the wheel!"

Of course, I got my license. ;)

But for some, they are fated to take public transport for the rest of their lives. :D