hazard perception test hints 1510PC Paul An experienced driver will click on the approaching hazard early enough anyway... someone with little experience might wait for...
SimonJ
My first drive with RoADAHad my first drive with RoADA on Sunday morning. I will keep you posted of my progress, and my thoughts on...
I wrote some software which showed me each sample clip, with the countdown on the screen 5,4,3,2,1 and started to work out what they were calling a 'developing hazard'.
The one thing that was essential that I should have realized earlier.. it's a setup. There's no point in using real-world evaluation. The clip starts.. it takes maybe a second to evaluate all the possible places they could hide a hazard - the trick is to spot it before they start so you have plenty of time to click at the right moment.
If there are schoolchildren on the road, you *know* they're going to be running across it in the next few seconds... if there's a van parked on the side of the road you *know* a kamikaze pedestrian is going to run out in front of it... if you're on a dual carriageway someone will overtake from the left or right - guaranteed. It's just a matter of knowing what to look for. Spent hours learning the patterns and found I could predict the setup with reasonable accuracy after a while.
Eventuallly got 57. It would have been 62 but I spotted one hazard so early it triggered the cheat thing (saw the sign for a junction on the left and it was obviously someone going to pull out without looking... unfortunately I started clicking too early and it was about 8 clicks before it actually happened, and it scored me a zero).
I was a bit shocked as it's not easy to do a test when you've got a bad cold, and a splitting headache..
Tony
