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My lass needed a test just after lockdown, the only place I could find a slot was Barrow-in-Furness, about 60 miles away. Cue three happy weekends spent over there driving all the published test routes on repeat. Not sure I want to go back any time soon.
(Passed, two minors).
2 mentions of "making progress" in this thread - careful boys, you'll trigger someone.
I passed in 1990. I'm fairly sure that part of the test was that you had to go on a "fast" road.
There were known routes. You didn't know which you'd get, but you wouldn't just go anywhere on a whim.
It seems weird to me that an instructor would decide that roundabouts were difficult and to be avoided, rather than go round them again and again and again until it became second nature.
Of course, some all or none of that may have changed since.
and failed for “not making progress”
I was about to say, did you not tell him "it's a limit not a target"😁
I failed my motorbike test for not making progress.
Pulled onto a DC behind a ditherer doing ~30, turning left at the next roundabout, by the time I realized this was going to be painfully slow and with cars flying up behind us making pulling out to overtake difficult/impossible it was a fail.
In my defense the school was crap, we'd had about 6 hours of actual time on the road on big bikes upto that point.
I just feel uncomfortable that someone could pass a test, but not be ready or safe for a few key components of being a moderately erasonable driver..
Just for your amusement, or not, my daughter is learning and has to do 1000km before she can sit the test but this can be on her own!!!!!. Admittedly the instructor has to sign her as being up to it but even so
I lived in mid Herts and the most likely place to learn and be tested was St Albans, a city characterised by a heavily trafficked dense network of narrow roads and odd shaped junctions dating back to medieval times. I took myself off to the modern and more spacious network road network that is Stevenage. Not because I didn't think I could drive well enough but because I decided I wasn't going to fail due to a random snarl up caused by the road layout. It worked, and to prove my point a few years later my sister was failed in St Albans because she had to stamp on the brakes due to a bit of random idiocy by another driver.
a few years later my sister was failed in St Albans because she had to stamp on the brakes due to a bit of random idiocy by another driver.
Why did that not count as her emergency stop test?