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Wed 17 May 2006 14:47
Driving Test Question - artful dodger {P}
According to an email I have been sent, this question has just been added to the driving theory test.

There is only one answer, do you know it?


Driving Test Question

You are driving along a two lane road with a NO OVERTAKING sign, and come upon a bicycle rider. Do you follow this slow-moving bicycle rider for the next 2 miles, or do you break the law and pass?


What would you do.
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Wed 17 May 2006 14:50
Driving Test Question - 1066
i would just overtake as its not really a road vechicle is it..
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Wed 17 May 2006 14:56
Driving Test Question - commerdriver
Reading the HC (I know, cheating a bit) it looks as though the strict answer is that you stay behind until the end of the no overtaking zone.
99.9% of the time however, like most people I would overtake as soon as it is safe to do so
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Wed 17 May 2006 14:53
Driving Test Question - local yokel
I'd stop where safe, and shout to the bike rider and ask them to pull over while I passed.

Not the answer you are looking for, but quite legal.
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Wed 17 May 2006 14:55
Driving Test Question - BazzaBear {P}
Is this the situation where you can only overtake if the bicycle is doing less than 20 mph?

Regardless I would choose my response based on what was safe, not what the driving test told me to do.
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Wed 17 May 2006 14:59
Driving Test Question - MoodyGit
It's a joke!

Attached to the email there should be a phot of a young lass with a shapely backside cycling along standing on the pedals!
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Wed 17 May 2006 14:57
Driving Test Question - Group B
What would you do.

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Overtake as soon as it was safe to do so.
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Wed 17 May 2006 15:10
Driving Test Question - Stuartli
Seems similar to some of the drivers in my area apparently unable to overtake milk floats...:-)
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What\'s for you won\'t pass you by
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Wed 17 May 2006 15:37
Driving Test Question - L'escargot
If the cyclist is typical they won't even be remotely aware that you are behind them, so drive up quietly until you are close behind and then give a long blast on your horn. With any luck they will fall off their bike onto the verge, leaving you with an unrestricted road ahead.
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Wed 17 May 2006 15:43
Driving Test Question - Altea Ego
Overtake. If there is insufficient room to overtake without crossing the white lines you obviously flatten the cyclist in the process.

The world does not need another vegetarian Green Party member anyway.
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Wed 17 May 2006 15:51
Driving Test Question - commerdriver
Overtake. If there is insufficient room to overtake without crossing the
white lines you obviously flatten the cyclist in the process.
The world does not need another vegetarian Green Party member anyway.
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It's not double white lines - you can cross these to overtake a cyclist it's a no overtaking sign. Seems to me like a very bad question where the correct answer is not what normal drivers do.
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Wed 17 May 2006 17:57
Driving Test Question - Bill Payer
Oh come on, would a question in the driving theory test really be framed 'or do you break the law and pass'!!
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Wed 17 May 2006 18:07
Driving Test Question - Dalglish
According to an email I have been sent,

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new question:
q. is this a hoax email?

a1. no it is not a hoax, it is a legal bona-fide theory test question.
a2. yes it is a hoax, designed for fishing expeditions known as trawling, alternatively spelt as "trolling".

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Wed 17 May 2006 18:44
Driving Test Question - ziggy
It's not double white lines - you can cross these to
overtake a cyclist it's a no overtaking sign. Seems to me
like a very bad question where the correct answer is not
what normal drivers do.


Last time I saw a no overtaking sign it featured picture of one car overtaking another car with the overtaking car in read.

Never saw picture of one car over-taking a cyclist.

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Wed 17 May 2006 18:51
Driving Test Question - ziggy
According to an email I have been sent, this question has
just been added to the driving theory test.
There is only one answer, do you know it?



I cannot imagine the test saying that.

But it reminds me of the case when traffic lights are stuck on red. You are supposed to turn around and go the other way.

This assumes were are all morons totally dependent on traffic lights to tell us what to do. The problem with these Driving Standards folk is their rules is rules approach risks undermining our own ability to think. The more reliant on signs and signals, the less scope for common sense the dumber (and more dangerous) we all become.

What about those orange matrix signs - if they are flashing (with no speed limit indicated) you are supposed to slow down to 30mph until no more flashing signs. Even if you have 10 miles of clear motorway ahead of you. Teaching learners to behave like this is little short of criminal.






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Wed 17 May 2006 20:12
Driving Test Question - PoloGirl
Artful dodger... look again at your email. Someone earlier on is right that it should have come with a photo.

www.forwardedfunnies.com/driving_test_000772.html#...e

Sorry!



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Thu 18 May 2006 10:01
Driving Test Question - MoodyGit
Artful dodger... look again at your email. Someone earlier on is
right that it should have come with a photo.
www.forwardedfunnies.com/driving_test_000772.html#...e
Sorry!



THANK YOU!

I first saw that joke about a year or so ago and I tried in vain yesterday to find it.

:-)
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Thu 18 May 2006 13:04
Driving Test Question - artful dodger {P}
I knew the answer to the question and I did see the photo, but I thought it was a good question to ask to test your responses.


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Roger
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Thu 18 May 2006 13:46
Driving Test Question - John R @ Work {P}
I'd only stay behind if SWMBO was not in the car. If she was, I'd pretend not to notice... ;¬)

Regards,
John R @ Work :¬)
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