Does anybody know for definite if one would ever be asked to reverse around a corner to one's RIGHT these days on a driving TEST ?
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there has never been a requirement for this manouvere in the test as it would involve crossing over to the wrong side of the road.
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as it would involve crossing over to the wrong side of the road.
One-way street?
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My friend took his test in a Vauxhall HA van. He was allowed to carry out his reversing round a right hand corner as there were no side windows at the rear. That was in the 1970's though, doubt whether it would happen these days.
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Still in by law for practical test motor cars:
5. Either -
(a) perform any two of the following manoeuvres -
(i) reverse in a straight line and reverse right or left round a corner while keeping within the correct traffic lane;
(ii) turn the vehicle to face the opposite way, using forward and reverse gears;
(iii) park the vehicle and leave a parking space (parallel, oblique or right-angle) both forwards and in reverse, on the flat, uphill and downhill; or
(b) (in the case of a test for a licence authorising the driving of vehicles in category B+E only) reverse in an S-shaped curve.
(MV (Driving Licence) Regs 1999
dvd
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Still in by law for practical test motor cars: 5. Either - (a) perform any two of the following manoeuvres -
Does that mean you can now opt out of (i), (ii) or (iii)?
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L\'escargot.
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>> (a) perform any two of the following manoeuvres - Does that mean you can now opt out of (i) (ii) or (iii)?
Not opt out, its at the examiners discretion isnt it? AFAIR I only did 2 of the 3 options on my test in 1989, I had to practice all 3 in driving lessons though. I can only remember being instructed how to reverse round a LH corner, not RH.
On a related issue, I dont know whats come over some driving instructors in Nottingham lately. There is a bit of a back road which is used as a commuters short cut in the morning rush hour, and recently I have seen quite a few instances of learners trying to reverse round a left hand corner junction from a fairly busy road (and bus route) into a side road.
I'm all for making the driving test harder, but these are traffic conditions where I would not be keen to reverse round a corner myself. (Its not a manouvre I would use anyway). Its not just taxing for pupils but obstructing other road users.
I've seen them cause obstructions several times, swinging wide into the road as they attempt it, or blocking cars in the side road. There are much quieter estate roads 200 yards away that they could use instead. When I learnt to drive my instructor used to take me on deserted roads to do these moves..
Has there been some directive to work pupils a bit harder, or is it instructors not using their loaf? Then again it could be examiners taking them there, which would explain different driving school cars using the same junction?
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A candidate would be unlikely to be asked to do a right reverse on a practical test, although it's not impossible AFAIK.
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"AFAIR I only did 2 of the 3 options on my test in 1989, I had to practice all 3 in driving lessons though."
That's right - they practise all the manouvres but only have to do two on the test.
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em, can I have some humble pie please HJ?
the official DSA guide says:
you need to be able to consistently do the following without any help:
'safely reverse your car under full control;
to do this you need to be confident reversing...
...around a left and a right corner - including square and gently curved corners as well as on the straight.
...on a level road and on a gradient.
...on a narrow or wide road.
...on a flat road or one with camber.
...on all appropriate types of road.'
so you can have any (or all) of the above on your test.
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Thanks for the replies;
so the concensus seems to be, on here and from other people I've spoken to, that technically you could still be asked to do it, but, apart from yon chap in the Bedford Beagle, no-one ever does seem to get asked... (?)
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the only time you'll possibly be asked to perform a reverse turn to the right is if you are sitting the test in a vehicle with restricted rearwards vision such as a van with no rear side windows. - that's from the DSA manual, the people that write the driving test.
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Has there been some directive to work pupils a bit harder or is it instructors not using their loaf? Then again it could be examiners taking them there which would explain different driving school cars using the same junction?
Instructors do have a tendency to take their pupils round known test routes, despite notices in test centres asking them not to. There are roads near me where you sometimes see convoys of driving school cars, and there's a residential road where you'll always see manoevres being taught or examined.
If these manoeuvres are being practised at inconvenient times of day, it's just because that's when those particular pupils happen to be having their lessons.
Returning to the original question, I don't recall being taught to reverse to the right and I took my test in 2003. Bits have been added to the test since then of course.
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As already stated, you will be asked to reverse a right hand corner if you take your test in a van without side windows.
The reason instructors congregate in certain areas is because there are very few places in any given location where you can carry out reversing and turning excercises in relative safety. I once had a rather eccentric elderly woman come out of her house and start beating the back of my car with a broom, complaining that driving instructors were terrorising her by constantly reversing outside her house.
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Turning right off Camden Road once in a hired Transit, briskly because of a thundering phalanx of rush-hour stuff hurtling down on me at 50, I had to stand on the brakes because a woman walking down the pavement just stepped across the turning I was going into without looking. Startled, she turned round and complained about my driving. I was younger then and replied furiously: 'I've just saved your life, you silly old woman!' Her face contorted with rage as I quickly wound up my window, and she started belabouring the Transit with an umbrella, crying: 'Don't you call me an old woman!'
At least she knew she was silly, I thought to myself as I drove away.
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If she was walking straight on along the main road, and you were turning off, then she had right of way. You should have slowed and waited before crossing her traffic stream.
She was still a silly old woman of course, to take the risk. The umbrella of course redeems the story - you don't see so many of those around now. (Suggested reading - "Encomium to an umbrella" by George Borrow, from "Wild Wales")
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The umbrella of course redeems the story - you don't see so many of those around now. (Suggested reading - "Encomium to an umbrella" by George Borrow from "Wild Wales")
I never go out without one CP, the weather being unpredictable at the moment.
How annoying of you to assert that the silly old woman had right of way. Surely no pedestrian has 'right of way' across a road unless there is a marked crossing or traffic light? Even with these damn silly ramps they build at the entrances to side streets now, as a pedestrian I don't regard myself as having 'right of way' across them. And I always pause for cars turning off a main road, simply because it interferes with traffic flow to make them wait.
Of course quite a lot of pedestrians are either stupid or actively malevolent and try to get in the way as much as possible. Mow'em all down. That's the only language they understand. :o}
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turning right reverse couldnt be easier as you are sitting in the right seat of the car i assume? just look over your right shouldr and watch the rear off side wheel but check periodically with your nearside wing for swing out
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