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In 1985, having just turned 18, I went for my driver’s licence test. I’d completed the mandatory lessons (six, from a professional instructor), spent countless hours behind the wheel of Mum’s Datsun 1200 (manual, and a fetching shade of duck egg blue), and was, according to my mother, ready to go.

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