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~10 years ago they said they "may" do one, but every one of my friends was required to. I guess it might have changed since then? Or location dependent - I know
by kimixa 3y ago
~10 years ago they said they "may" do one, but every one of my friends was required to. I guess it might have changed since then? Or location dependent - I know different areas have different roads, in a reasonably-sized UK city (top 20 by population) the local instructors generally knew the 4-5 routes the local DVLA normally tested around, and intentionally practiced in those areas with the specifics they entailed. And speaking to people who tool their test in different cities the things that tended to be difficult and likely to catch them out were often different.
And having done the California driving test a few years back as well, comparatively the US one was pretty trivial in comparison. And I've heard the CA test is one of the harder ones in the states.
- lmm 3y ago> ~10 years ago they said they "may" do one, but every one of my friends was required to. I guess it might have changed since then? Or location dependent - I know different areas have different roads, in a reasonably-sized UK city (top 20 by population) the local instructors generally knew the 4-5 routes the local DVLA normally tested around, and intentionally practiced in those areas with the specifics they entailed. Test instructors are told they should carry out the emergency stop on one third of tests at random, and that was the guidance at least as far back as 13 years ago ( https://www.adicpd.co.uk/dsa-dt1-standard-operating-procedure.pdf https://www.adicpd.co.uk/dsa-dt1-standard-operating-procedur... has a copy from 10 years ago, see page 40). A FOIA response I saw showed numbers that align with that, so unless some instructors are doing the emergency stop and then falsely reporting they didn't...