Hazard Perception

[Scuzi]

WTF is this test all about? I did my car theory test before this was brought in. I have a couple of practice discs for it where it simulates the test by playing examples requiring you to click at the appropriate moment.

None of them actually tell you when you should click though. It seems that I'm clicking much too early and as a result am scoring pretty low. I corrected by clicking a bit later which sometimes works but often loses me points. Some hazards are not covered by the "click" either, spo when you click you lose points because the software does not consider something a hazard.

What are they looking for? I can spot the hazard without issue, it's the rubbish way in which it is tested that I cannot seem to grasp.

AARRGGHH!

 

[Guv]

When you spot a hazard, click once. When a new hazard appears or the previous hazard changes, click again.

There are some hazards in the video clip that aren't point scoring hazards from my experience, so you need to spot them all.

 

[Guv]

When you spot a hazard, click once. When a new hazard appears or the previous hazard changes, click again.

There are some hazards in the video clip that aren't point scoring hazards from my experience, so you need to spot them all.

 

[fonzee]

excactly. the timed scoring system is abysmal. i failed the theory first time by one point in the HP due to this excact reason, could easily spot the hazard, just annoying if you spot it 'too early' then you don't get noubt!! hugely flawed. spoke to many people about it and they all seemed to say the same thing. click for anything that moves. seriously.

second time i got a very high score doing this.

 

[Nebzor]

It's not exactly difficult.

Click whenever you see a 'developing hazard' i.e. something that could well cause you to have to change speed or direction.

This includes if the hazard you clicked for 5s ago changes for the worse.

 

[Zefan]

I clicked tonnes in mine.

Example...

a person is about to walk into the road - click
the person is walking in the road - click
the person reaches the other side - click

 

[Tom|Nbk]

I clicked too many and lost like 5 points or something, I passed by like 1 point or something IIRC

 

[aproctor]

I passed twice first time, the first time it was just after it was brought in and there was even less information on it than there is now.

It does serve a purpose but the way it is laid out is abysmal.

 

[Thomas. PLease.]

If you've already done your driving test, why are you trying to do the hazard perception.

 

[Nebzor]

If you've already done your driving test, why are you trying to do the hazard perception.

He's doing his bike licence.

 

[SinaiSound]

I did one of these tests at my naughty boy speeding course

At one point you were driving down a road with parked cars going down each side

Surely each one of these is a hazard? What if someone flung a door open?

Like Scuzi I wondered what they think is the correct hazard!

 

[Scuzi]

He's doing his bike licence.

Yup.

Again.

 

[Thomas. PLease.]

your doing it again?

 

[SKILL]

For the bike test I guess,

when I first did this for my car licence I did what you're doing, just clicking once, then when I did it again in 2007 for the bike test I clicked everytime I saw something that could become a hazard, then again a few seconds later, again if it actually became a hazard and then a final time once it's gone. Using roughly that 'technique' (which is one step below randomly clicking tbh ) I didn't lose any points for clicking too often and passed by a country mile...

 

[Scuzi]

your doing it again?

I did it 6 years ago. It's a long story.

For the bike test I guess,

when I first did this for my car licence I did what you're doing, just clicking once, then when I did it again in 2007 for the bike test I clicked everytime I saw something that could become a hazard, then again a few seconds later, again if it actually became a hazard and then a final time once it's gone. Using roughly that 'technique' (which is one step below randomly clicking tbh ) I didn't lose any points for clicking too often and passed by a country mile...

I'm going to give this technique a go now. I'll report back with the results.

 

[Trifid]

Click 3 times for every hazard.

The real thing is slightly better for not displaying a million potential hazards in one scene. I don't agree with it because you are told not to click for potential hazards, but when you clock something as a potential hazard you need to click then to get the full points and by the time it is a real hazard it is at 2 points.

 

[paddy]

I used one of those practice disks when I was learning how to do the hazard test and I had the same problem, utterly infuriating!

I went for a slow double click on any serious hazard.

The only thing to "learn" with these tests was to identify what things they considered the major hazards and just look out for them:
in town clip: pedestrian crossing
country lane: car coming other way
single carriageway: slow vehicle/cyclist
dual/motorway: car on slip road

 

[BigglesPiP]

I don't pretend to understand it, I didn't do any practice, but I passed.

 

[Scuzi]

That wasn't so bad. I did the test this morning and after multiple failures on the practice software, I thought I had nothing to lose by clicking like a madman at the slightest movement of any car or pedestrian.

It worked! 50 out of 50 on the theory and 64 out of 75 on the hazard perception.

Lesson learned. Don't try to apply any logic to the hazard perception. Just click like a man possessed.

 

[bobert50]

Lesson learned. Don't try to apply any logic to the hazard perception. Just click like a man possessed.

this is exactly what i did worked a treat