60 years old so pretty sure Id be a fail

 

You answered 47 out of 50 questions correctly.

I found these ones interesting:

You're driving along a quiet motorway. Which advanced driver assistance system is most likely to help you?
I'd prefer to answer ACC and Autosteer

How can you use your vehicle's engine to control your speed?
My car only have 1 gear........ B mode or full re-gen for EV's.

I think it needs EV update and sprinkle some questions on operating level 2 autonomy vehicle.

 

I think it needs EV update and sprinkle some questions on operating level 2 autonomy vehicle.

I was surprised there were no questions on what vehicles emit the most CO2 and the link to the coral reef

 

My four wrong

Speed bump sign for some reason i picked humped bridge
If you get 6 points in your first year i thought you only had to retake the practical but it's theory as well
Lorry turning left at the same time as a cyclist i picked wide because of the cyclist not just the room
Turning left i picked Keep to the left instead of Well to the left.

40 minutes left.

 

46 out of 50 as well

 

I'll give it a hack, but does this have those 'spot the hazard' things that I can never do.

What I get is that I'm looking way off into the distance and it turns out what they wanted was something blindingly obvious that any experienced driver/rider would not even notice they've already totally worked that one out and are looking far ahead already.

I find I have to 'dumb down' to pass those, and try not to actually think about it.

There is a separate one for motorcycles, so I hear. I expect I'd fail that one.

Edit . heh. Yeah, first question.

'All of them'?

For motorcycling, 'mud on the road' is a bigger hazard than pedestrians, because you'd put yourself towards the centre line and miss them anyway, but then the hazard is sliding across into the oncoming.

Dunno ... 'fail' ....

 

46. Some of them are very strange in the wording. One off for keeping to the middle of the left not right over to the left when turning into a minor road. Well if you do that you can't see as well so I'd think you're better taking a wider position as it's safer!

I can see why folk fail as a few are just such dumb questions with stupid answers. The quiet motorway one I thought none of that crap is any use to me whatsoever. Some of them I thought 'all of the above' but you could only have one reason. Picked correct reason anyway.

Managed to get the shape of the signs giving directions wrong. Had the correct shape in my brain but picked the wrong one anyway. DOH!

I think I have done the same one before and made exactly the same mistakes so I'm consistent at least

 

Some of them are very strange in the wording. One off for keeping to the middle of the left not right over to the left when turning into a minor road. Well if you do that you can't see as well so I'd think you're better taking a wider position as it's safer!

That was why i got that one wrong too. Too close to the left on approach and you end up too far over to the right in the street you enter.

 

You know the 'men at work sign'? My auntie used to say it was a man trying to open his umbrella.

 

Being able to pass a driving test and being able to actually drive are two almost totally different things. Having said that, there is so much poor driving going on, it's shameful.

 

'DANGER. Karens about'

 

I thought that was a 'danger - muggers around' 🤦‍♂️

 

I got 49/50, just got the one about box junctions wrong. There was a lot of guessing, some questions aren't easy unless you actually see them for real, ie traffic light sequences.

Some quite odd questions.

 

47.

I don't know how to park in a 40.
I didn't know it was a roundabout sign.
Don't know where to find the Max noseweight for a trailer

Ah well.

 

44/50 in 12 minutes 💪(Only 22 years since I did it last mind...)

 

Give the fact that you always have a few subjective/odd questions and need a very high %, I suspect lots of drivers would fail by one or two marks. The trick to passing the test when you do it for real is to find out what some of the known odd and impossibly subjective questions are and try and anticipate the answers.

 

Never done a theory test before, i passed in 1977 but in those days you were taught how to drive not just how to pass the test

 

Be interesting to see the result!

 

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My four wrong

Speed bump sign for some reason i picked humped bridge
If you get 6 points in your first year i thought you only had to retake the practical but it's theory as well
Lorry turning left at the same time as a cyclist i picked wide because of the cyclist not just the room
Turning left i picked Keep to the left instead of Well to the left.

40 minutes left.

Be interesting to see the result!

 

In other news, most middle aged adults would fail a resit of their O levels or university entrance exams... (At least without some refresher studies...)

Most poor driving is caused by lack of common sense or consideration for other road users rather than not remembering every road rule I'd wager.

(A lot of road rules simply codify common sense and road curtsey)

 

Exactly this, most accidents are simply down to self entitlement. The biggest being the “I have right of way” assumption.

 

48 out of 50, in 9 minutes. I got the roundabout sign wrong, thought it was a mini roundabout not a large one. But what difference would that make in reality? I’d react to what was actually there, the sign would just warn me there’s some sort of junction ahead so I’d need to be alert and ready to slow down.

I also got the road positioning one wrong, but like others I think the question is wrong, not me! Of course it depends on what’s really there. Turning left from a major road to a minor road, it says you need to keep far left. That’s fine if it’s a slip road with good visibility, but turning 90° into a narrow road you need more space - just like the lorry in the yellow grid.

 

Yes, some odd questions and answers. And the particularly stupid cyclist on the inside of a large lorry until it slowed and backed off.
Men at work - trying to lift heavy umbrella.

 

Yeah, I was like 'huh, leading question or what!!'. It didn't slow up, it looked like it did the manoeuvre 'properly' at a safe speed!

The roundabout was a bit of a gotcha too ... who gives a crap what sort of roundabout it is?

There is a motorcycle and truck test on the site too, if anyone is game.

 

48/50 here. I got the sequence for a puffin crossing wrong (not sure which pedestrian crossing is a puffin) and hit mini roundabout rather than roundabout for the sign.

 

Ditto with the puffin light sequence. Got 46/50. Not bad for a foreigner that exchanged his Aussie license about 25 years ago 😂

 

I got 44 out of 50 and passed, main failures where some of the road signs. I genuinely despair that 95% of UK drivers would fail this. Most of it is genuinely common sense and that has nothing to do with the shape of a road sign.

 

44/50, I also passed my test in the 70's for both cars and motorcycles, being aware of your surroundings makes more sense than some of the questions

 

I past my driving test the first year the theory test was introduced. I couldn't believe how many people were failing the test.

The vast majority of the questions still seem like common sense to me.

 

I think the very poor standard of driving now is purely due to the fact people are no longer taught how to drive a car correctly, have no idea of the width/length of their vehicle and proper manoeuvring.

I passed my test back in 1972, first time, and it was all about driving with just 3 random Highway Code questions. Cost me the princely sum of £1.50. Two years later took my Advanced Test as I was training to become a driving instructor. The old Ministry of Transport Practical and Theory tests back then were very good.
These days I’ve seen some shocking driving by so called qualified instructors and driving schools.

There should always be more emphasis on actual driving and handling your vehicle than asking stupid questions in a test that don’t apply.

I’ve never had an accident in all my years of driving which proves my point.

 

The driving standards years ago were even worse.

It used to be normal and socially acceptable to drive cars when blind drunk.

After a serious accident or fatality it was just deemed a RTA. The road debris swept up and the road reopened. Now a crash is a RTC and every serious accident is investigated and drivers held accountable.

Like most things in life things have improved considerably, but nostalgia plays with people's memories.

 

I got the one about a car reversing off a driveway wrong... 'you should sound your horn to warn a driver reversing out of a driveway'.

Really? I've never felt the need to beep my horn at someone reversing off a driveway.

A couple were just weirdly worded, like if you have to try to figure out the question, or it's a little ambiguous, then that's just a badly written question. This isn't an English exam.

Like 'haha you got it wrong because you read the question wrong, the question we purposely wrote like that, lol'.

 

I think the questions are worded to establish you know the rules.

Reversing off a drive scenario you need to be aware the driver may not be able to see you so slow down being prepared to stop, the horn inclusion is to see if you know that that is it's purpose, to warn of your presence.

 

48/50 despite putting on my sleeveless Fair Isle pullover, corduroy trousers and hisvis tabard, I too mistook the humps sign for a humpback bridge, and hadn't a clue about the puffin crossing light sequence. In my defence I think if I saw a speed bump I'd recognise it, they're epidemic here as I live on the border of Oxfordshire. No excuse for the puffin though.

 

Puffin crossings from the driver's view are the same as traffic light The difference is the green/red man are on the post you press to cross not over the road.