Red Herring wrote:I drove a Discovery recently that just had a button for the handbrake. I made the comment that it must be quite hard to do hillstarts as the button doesn't have a "biting" point, it's either on or off, only to be told it releases automatically. Apparently when you stop on a hill you push the button to set the brake. When you want to move off you engage first gear clutch down, then push the botton to release the brake, and then as you bring the clutch up the "system" automatically releases the brake as the drive takes the vehicle forward. I didn't actually get a chance to try this out......can anyone confirm this is how they work? If so does it work the other way round if you are trying to reverse up a hill?
ScoobyChris wrote:I think it would be interesting for the test centre to have their own pool of cars without electronic trickery and also without strategically placed stickers for parking manouevres to actually test a candidates ability. I'm sure it would be ruled out on cost and practicality grounds, but I think it would certainly benefit new drivers (I would have certainly benefitted from it!).
Chris
jbsportstech wrote:
Think you have struck on something there,,,, They provide the car for the test that would make sense.. They could charge about £40 more and provide a car since you have to pay for two lessons with an instructor to use his/her car which is about 40-50quid.
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