PC Paul
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 how the training is different to the IAM. First...
An experienced driver will click on the approaching hazard early enough anyway... someone with little experience might wait for the actual hazard to occur and be too late. The windows are a little too early for the 'developing' moniker to make a lot of sense (not in all cases, but definately in many - again, I can only go by the windows in the training videos) .
Example: You see a car parked on the right with its bonnet open. Common sense says that there's probably someone there... However in the training video there's a scoring window as you approach the car, which hits zero *just before* the person runs out in front of you.. this person that had shown no inclination of doing so (indeed you couldn't actually see them, just buttume they were there)... the 'developing' hazard was only developing invisibly behind the bonnet (presumably the owner deciding to commit dissolution due to their car breaking down).
OTOH I didn't see anything that sneaky on the actual test... the stuff was all fairly obvious, so it may just be down to poor examples on the CD I used).
Remember the windows are very small, so repeated clicking is the correct way to score the maximum points, since you can't easily predict exactly *when* the scoring window starts and ends (without having seen the video before, anyway). The trick then is not to click too much.
Tony
