What is actually changing in the way the driving test is carried out in December this year is this;-
1 - The independent driving time during the test will increase to 20 minutes from 10 minutes - now using a sat nav supplied and set up by the examiner.
2 - Most tests will involve following directions from a sat nav - but one in five tests won't - use traffic signs instead.
3 - Two of the current manoeuvres are being binned:-
The reverse around a corner to the left and the turn in the road.( In most urban surroundings it is increasingly difficult to find a location suitable to carry these manoeuvres out safely - It was bad enough 8 years ago when I was instructing - must be darn near impossible now)
The candidate will be asked to carry out one manoeuvre from the following list of three;-
A - Parallel park on the left behind an existing car
B - Park in a bay, either drive in and reverse out or reverse in and drive out ( only carried out at the test centre if it has a car park - some haven't)
C - Pull up on the right hand side of the road - reverse for two car lengths and then rejoin the traffic stream on the left.
4 - Answer a "show me"question while driving -such as "how would you wash the windscreen using the washers and wipers" or "how to demist the rear screen" etc.
My comment on manoeuvre C - "Examiner's guaranteed fail if carried out on a busy road"
Edited by focussed on 15/04/2017 at 21:37
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