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posted by martyb on Monday October 22 2018, @08:23AM   Printer-friendly
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.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Sulla on Tuesday October 23 2018, @12:04AM

    by Sulla (5173) on Tuesday October 23 2018, @12:04AM (#752242) Journal

    I have taken the Alaska-Canada highway a number of times and have come to the conclusion that in northern Canada they farm out road sign production to jobless art students with the instruction to give them an abstract vision of what they think various warnings could be.

    Driving around a corner there is a cliff to your left and a rock wall to the right, the sign depicts this and has a big X through the vehicle driving in the right lane (I presume this is supposed to be you, the driver). Is this an abstract image telling me not to drive around this corner? Not to get too close to the rock wall? Possible rocks falling?

    MANY SUCH CASES

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