Online, many have responded to the news that new drivers won't be forced to pull off one of driving's trickiest moves - in front of a state examiner, no less - by calling it another example of how younger generations get an easier path.Ī commenter at The Baltimore Sun writes, 'I moved to Virginia and I can attest to the woeful state of young drivers and their parallel parking skills. He adds that those figures include people who took the test multiple times. Of that number, 53 percent passed, and 47 percent failed statewide.' That could happen, he says, if people who might previously have been turned away after botching tasks such as the parallel maneuver on a closed course now reach the second portion of Maryland's testing process, which takes place on open roads.Ĭiting the most recent figures in Maryland, Young says, '154,526 tests were administered from July 2014 to April 2015. Young says that wasn't the intention - and he says there's a chance the change could increase wait times. Still, some critics have seen the change as a bid to speed the process of getting a license and cut down on the number of drivers who retake the driving test. Comparing the reverse two-point turnaround maneuver to parallel parking, Young says, 'the set of skills were the exact same.'