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Wow those sound like such badly designed questions. What country is this?
by nvilcins 5y ago
Wow those sound like such badly designed questions. What country is this?
- AlexanderTheGr8 5y agoI don't know about that person, but a friend of mine from India was telling me about a driving test question there - [translated] "How far should you stay behind another car - A) 2 meters B) 2 seconds". Apparently the correct answer is 2 seconds. In my opinion, the question is weirdly ambiguous.
- macintux 5y agoI’m curious, why do you think that’s ambiguous?
- samatman 5y agoWhat's ambiguous about it? Two meters behind a car at highway speeds can get you killed. If it were a question only about cars at rest it would be phrased something like "how far behind a car should you stop when queued" or something of that nature.
- denton-scratch 5y agoThere are few places in India where you can drive at "highway speeds".
- bombela 5y agoThis makes sense to me. What matters is the reaction time and braking distance.
- hibbelig 5y agoI guess two meters is sufficient when you drive a walking pace, but any faster than that two meters will be too little. You say that this was in India, and I'm guessing two meters is way too much in a traffic jam :-)
- stavros 5y ago"Two seconds" is what I learned too. The book here says that you should be at the spot where the previous car was two seconds ago, which is good advice, as it's independent of speed. You can think of it as "it'll take you one second to react and one to brake to a stop, so you should be two seconds away".