Driving Test

[icowden]

But having not used the junction, I do not see any pressing problems negotiating it, but I do have over 50 yrs road experience.

There aren't really, it's more about the sense of confusion you feel - particularly as a learner, because it isn't easy to work out what you should indicate, particularly if going from London Street to abbey road. You aren't going straight on so you need to indicate to let the cars behind / approaching know you want to turn, but you also aren't going right. I'm not sure the instructors can even agree on the protocol.

I think it was previously a roundabout and that didn't work either.

 

[Dogtrousers]

There aren't really, it's more about the sense of confusion you feel - particularly as a learner, because it isn't easy to work out what you should indicate, particularly if going from London Street to abbey road. You aren't going straight on so you need to indicate to let the cars behind / approaching know you want to turn, but you also aren't going right. I'm not sure the instructors can even agree on the protocol.

I think it was previously a roundabout and that didn't work either.

"Straight on", "left" and "right" don't always mean what you might think when learning to drive.

My wife has a tale of being told by her instructor to go straight on at a point where the South Circular makes a 90 degree turn to the left. Accordingly she put her right indicator on, waited for a gap in the traffic made a right turn, which was indeed physically "straight on" but not what he intended. He patiently let her finish the manouevre before saying "no, that wasn't what I meant".

Heading West. She turned right into Stanstead road.

 

[Beebo]

"Straight on", "left" and "right" don't always mean what you might think when learning to drive.

My wife has a tale of being told by her instructor to go straight on at a point where the South Circular makes a 90 degree turn to the left. Accordingly she put her right indicator on, waited for a gap in the traffic made a right turn, which was indeed physically "straight on" but not what he intended. He patiently let her finish the manouevre before saying "no, that wasn't what I meant".

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Heading West. She turned right into Stanstead road.

You wouldn’t fail for that.
I took the wrong exit on a roundabout on my test. But still passed because I did it safely.
It was a big round about with 5 exits so I miss counted.

 

[Dogtrousers]

You wouldn’t fail for that.
I took the wrong exit on a roundabout on my test. But still passed because I did it safely.
It was a big round about with 5 exits so I miss counted.

This was just in a lesson, not on a test. Her instructor was really good, and I took a few lessons with him. I got him to take me round some bits of London that I didn't like, and try to teach teach me how to deal with them. He was partially successful.

 

[icowden]

You wouldn’t fail for that.
I took the wrong exit on a roundabout on my test. But still passed because I did it safely.
It was a big round about with 5 exits so I miss counted.

I did something very similar because the instructions weren't clear. Again - I was driving safely and correctly, so passed.

 

[Profpointy]

A rather older friend had a licence to drive more amor less everything. The story was he applied for a licence during the war and because organising driving tests was hardly a priority as every able bodied man would have been in the military or otherwise doing war work, the authorities just required submitting a form. He was going to tick the boxes for tractor and light trucks or whatever then realised there was nothing stopping him ticking every box on the form so his licence duly arrived covering everything.

Even in the early 80s my own test also covered minibuses, heavy trailers and 7.5tonne trucks. And my 2 part bike test on a 125 covered me for any two wheeler

 

[icowden]

Even in the early 80s my own test also covered minibuses, heavy trailers and 7.5tonne trucks. And my 2 part bike test on a 125 covered me for any two wheeler

And into the early 1990s. I passed in 91 and have those codes.

 

[Profpointy]

And into the early 1990s. I passed in 91 and have those codes.

I was about to comment that it was a fairly recent change, then realised, "oh, hang on"

 

[CXRAndy]

1997 I believe certain entitlements were removed from general driving license

 

[lazybloke]

1997 I believe certain entitlements were removed from general driving license

Yep, it's becoming an additional cost for schools because a lot of teaching staff are too young to have the D1(101) code. Meaning they cannot drive school minibuses until they do the training & test.

 

[CXRAndy]

My In-law was in demand at the local scouting club. He was the only one with a licence older than '97 so had the minibus category