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The_Undercover_ADI

The hazard perception is terrible, as it has little to do with hazard "perception" and more to do with reaction.

Perceiving a hazard is usually too early, for example:

You see a pedestrian walking on the pavement, they look over their shoulder. This suggests they will cross the road, so you click. They then cross in front of you so you assume you have scored well.

Nope - you're too early!

You score the highest when a POSSIBLE hazard becomes an ACTUAL hazard.

When the pedestrian looks over their shoulder they become a POSSIBLE hazard, they only become an ACTUAL hazard when they actually cross.

Another example - you spot a car parked on a bend ahead - you click on it because it creates a hazardous situation, but again you don't score, because until another car comes in the other direction (having to move into your path to pass the parked car) there is no ACTUAL problem, just the potential for one.

Don't click too early is the simple way of putting it, so instead of clicking when you would check your mirrors just in case, click when you would ACTUALLY brake or change direction.

I hope this helps.

Inactive

Good post, good advice..

Bugatti_Boi

briona wrote: »

Hi Mark

The hazard perception is tricky but if I remember rightly almost all of the clips take place in residential or shopping areas so you would never be driving more than 30mph.

Now imagine that you are ACTUALLY driving down that road, think about what your instructor would be telling you to watch out for... "Mark, there's a junction on your left, can you see clearly into it?" If your answer would be "no", then on the clip, you would need to mark that as a potential hazard – a car could come flying out of there, a child could kick a ball towards your road and run after it, that sort of thing.

On your next few lessons, get your instructor to talk you through hazard perception, as though you were doing the test. My instructor used to get me to talk through every move I made. He'd start off and then I'd carry on: "I'm driving along the road and I see a 'children crossing sign' and so I know that I'm approaching a school, so I slow down, drop to second gear and look left and right to ensure that no children are about to run across the road..." I felt like a bit of a !!!!!! at times (LOL) but in terms of understanding hazard perception, it did help!

Best of luck with the driving and the theory test! I'm sure you'll pass!

Briona

Hey Briona its Mark homealones son, I have just had a go at the theory test on the website you suggested and it is good but it won't let me save my scores which ain't that great to be honest but im going to do what you done in the first place and google search hazard perception and theory test online and see what it comes up with. thanks again for suggesting it.