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Old 12-12-2008, 05:43 AM   #32 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by atomicradish View Post
I scored a 59%.

I didn't like some of the questions. Particularly, "do you feel like other drivers around you are going to slow". Just because I feel like other people are going too slow doesn't mean I'm actually going to drive aggressively to get around them. Even stranger is that question deducted more from my score than having driven intoxicated.
You forgot the word "often" in the question. I imagine their logic is that if you *often* feel that other people are too slow, then you *often* are too fast and so you *often* are too dangerous.

The question that hit my result most is about how many different vehicles I drove. I replied correctly that I almost never drove other vehicle than my own ones and I lost a lot of points. This is certainly unfair, but I understand that because I don't know what it's like to drive a truck or a motorcycle that I can't fully understand their risks and I may be a danger for them. In my recent experience, I remarked that motorcycles thank me more and more rarely when I let them overtake me. In fact it's because I move on the right side of the lane when there always is one or two cars between us and they don't see that I deliberately moved.

Anyway, this kind of test will never replace a good real life inspection of your driving habits, but they may make some people to think about their driving habits...

The only thing I find bad about that test is that it doesn't explain why some responses are bad in a safety point of view.

Denis.

PS : with the "penalty" my score is :
"You scored a 92% (A)! Your driving level is: very safe"
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