Hand brake - Learner driver

Norman_Castle

IanMSpencer wrote: »

The main thing with either of these systems is that they do not need to be released, you drive off doing nothing.

I'm surprised using this on a test is allowed. It makes the hill start pointless and is unfair on candidates who don't have this technology.

sevenhills

loskie wrote: »

Electric handbrakes Pah!

All the yoofs will be missing out the fun of doing handbrake turns. Generations missing the fun I had in the late 80's

I took her out again today, all ok but still need to get better. We got close to where she lives and she says that "I will just park it on the pavement".
One of my pet hates, but not in the Highway Code. A very big NO in my book, although most do it.
That is what she does with her 'instructor'.

Car_54

sevenhills wrote: »

I took her out again today, all ok but still need to get better. We got close to where she lives and she says that "I will just park it on the pavement".
One of my pet hates, but not in the Highway Code. A very big NO in my book, although most do it.
That is what she does with her 'instructor'.

Oh yes it is! Rule 244:

"You MUST NOT park partially or wholly on the pavement in London, and should not do so elsewhere unless signs permit it. Parking on the pavement can obstruct and seriously inconvenience pedestrians, people in wheelchairs or with visual impairments and people with prams or pushchairs."

Cash-Strapped.T32

Norman_Castle wrote: »

I'm surprised using this on a test is allowed. It makes the hill start pointless and is unfair on candidates who don't have this technology.

Having relatively recently gone through the driving test myself (passed 1st time, but after a decade or so riding motorbikes so I'd have been rather mortified had I not) my instructor advised me that you're allowed to use any technology or driving aids the car has.

So that would include electric mirrors dropping the wing mirrors down, to aid your parallel parking , reversing sensors, etc...
Although presumably someone who sits in the road for ages faffing with their mirrors to aid a reverse-turn would pick up the appropriate fault for causing a hold-up, etc...

He told me that a friend of one of his other students was currently taking lessons, from an ADI in a car that doesn't have a "real" handbrake, just like the OP's example.
Perfectly allowable, though in my opinion, unwise.

I decided early on not to use any of it (although I do use the electric mirrors in my own car now & again), because I never wanted to be in a position where I was reliant on something that my own (cheap) car didn't have.

Car_54

Cash-Strapped.T32 wrote: »

Having relatively recently gone through the driving test myself (passed 1st time, but after a decade or so riding motorbikes so I'd have been rather mortified had I not) my instructor advised me that you're allowed to use any technology or driving aids the car has.

Not quite. If the car has self-parking, it has to be disabled.

Cash-Strapped.T32

Car_54 wrote: »

Not quite. If the car has self-parking, it has to be disabled.

Good point :beer: - I never even thought to ask about that one while discussing this subject with my instructor last year (who incidentally had himself only become an ADI within the year before he began teaching me).

reeac

My 1950s MGA has a fly off handbrake .... you press the button in to set it and just lift the handbrake a bit to release it. It's confused a few people in its time.