"Scion" wrote in message
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On the test you are meant to click on a "developing hazard" (I think that
was the wording) and in theory the sooner you click the better the score.

I bought a DVD that had dozens of clips and rated your score. I clicked
waaaay to early on a lot of them; I got the correct hazard but I wasn't
supposed to have realised by then.

Example: a cyclist some way in front on the left. Parked cars. Relative
speeds made it obvious that the cyclist was going to be moving out to get
past the parked cars at the same time the video car got there. Click. Zero
points. Apparently the I was supposed to click as the cyclist started
moving out.

Other examples - a car approaching a junction a little too fast;
pedestrians approaching a zebra crossing; brake lights coming off a car
parked on the left.

In addition, all but one clip had just one hazard you were supposed to
click on. If you got the wrong one - a child walking on the pavement next
to the road, for example - you couldn't then click on the intended hazard
later on in that clip.

The CG version was much clearer, both in graphics quality and intention.


Yes, that's the problem with automated, non-human tests: they can't allow
for the "I hadn't though of that hazard, but well done for spotting it". And
they need to have a way of distinguishing "this *could* develop into a
problem, but might not do - watch and wait" versus "this *is* a problem -
take avoiding action now". I think the video driving test that I saw (as a
small window inside a 14" PC screen - it was 1990s technology!) wanted only
the latter, when they should be looking for the former so you are prepared
for it developing (or not developing!) into the latter.