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from the youtube-dashcam-accidents-guaranteed-for-years-to-com dept.
Sunday Times Driving reports under 50% of surveyed UK drivers know what a roundabout sign looks like, and only 68% knew what the speed bump sign means.
The survey was conducted by the Institute of Advanced Motorists, with 1,000 participants.
Only 32% of drivers knew you should allow at least a two-second time gap to the vehicle ahead when driving on a dry open road. It appears many motorists are conflating this with two car lengths in distance, as 53% of those surveyed responded with that answer.
[...] Younger motorists were the most likely to answer incorrectly, with 17 to 39 year-olds having the lowest correct answer percentage rates in 14 of the 23 questions, but older drivers didn't do very well either.
The Sunday Times article has an embedded googleforms survey, so you can test your knowledge of UK road rules.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by darkfeline on Monday October 22 2018, @02:03PM (1 child)
In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice, they are different.
Crunching numbers like you're doing is a pointless exercise since you lack a model that was derived from actual observation of traffic flow.
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday October 23 2018, @05:24AM
As I was about to say, there speaks someone who has never driven in Los Angeles, where we think bumper-to-bumper at 70mph is normal, tho it scares the shit out of the uninitiated.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.