Kimosabe wrote:Do you
a) Drive at 60Mph until you become the last car in the queue of slower moving traffic ahead and treat the others as an obstacle to eventually overtake?
b) Choose to hang back and enjoy the rolling countryside instead of spoiling your view with the back of a van?
Kimosabe wrote:Also, I don't get the notion that if I pass a speed sign at anything below the indicated limit, i'm somehow not in control of my car and would be negatively marked during an IAM test (is the same true for RoSPA?)
MrToad wrote:When on test, if you enter a higher limit then you'll be expected to accelerate positively up to that new limit if it's safe and appropriate. It's important to demonstrate that you can both recognise a safe speed, and competently control the vehicle at that speed.
Kimosabe wrote:Do you
a) Drive at 60Mph until you become the last car in the queue of slower moving traffic ahead and treat the others as an obstacle to eventually overtake?
b) Choose to hang back and enjoy the rolling countryside instead of spoiling your view with the back of a van?
MrToad wrote:a. If you catch up with a single vehicle and don't take a safe opportunity to overtake, then you become the queue that's now holding people up....
Gareth wrote:postulated options
MGF wrote:That depends on your following distance
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Those people apparently holding you up in a queue may just be waiting for 'their' safe opportunity to overtake.
Ralge wrote:"Silver" because I did not put myself into an overtaking position.
It still rankles and, although i have since gone on to get the T-shirt and more, I know that i would do the same again on my next test.
Ralge wrote:So we are probably agreeing, then, that being on a test puts us under pressure to look for the overtake that we might not look for on another day.
Ralge wrote:This takes me back to my first advanced test (Silver) since I had decided and made it clear in my commentary that a single decker bus followed by a car on a windy country road with dense, high vegetation was not worth consideration of an overtake since, together, they made a very long vehicle.
"Silver" because I did not put myself into an overtaking position.
Ralge wrote:So we are probably agreeing, then, that being on a test puts us under pressure to look for the overtake that we might not look for on another day.
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