Driving is something an average adult can’t manage to do just by watching a video, I don’t care how many times you watch it. You have to practice it. A lot.
We’re not just talking about reaching the pedals when not driving it. It’s reaching the pedals, and managing to go from gas to brake, and vise versa at the right time, and managing the steering straight etc. It’s just not that easy. Was there a traffic light, was there a turn he needed to make?
How do they know that it wasn’t a prank? Maybe someone put the kid in the driver’s seat just before the McDonald’s.
You’d have to _know for sure or assume
-He is not shorter than average for his age.
-He didn’t need to back up out of a driveway.
-There was a car seat booster available to him , because one of the drivers of the car happens to be what they call a “liitle person”
-He knew how to push the car forward.
etc.
The reporter can’t know that he didn’t hit anything on the way, even if there was no dent on the car.
From http://www.answers.com/Q/How_tall_is_the_average_8_year_old_boy?#slide=2
“the average height is 3 ft and 9 inches…”
“An average 8 year boy should be about 4 feet tall…”
@zenvelo One can’t be sure that it’s not a fake story. Impossible.