Do you keep up to date with the highway code?
Discussion
After having a thread on here last week about being brake tested, and a member of our community commenting about the highway code, as he regularly does, it got me thinking that I haven't read the highway code since I passed my test in the mid 90s.
I really don't feel that I need to, although this could just be arrogance on my part, I doubt however that I am alone in this.
Do people actually keep up to date with it regularly?
I really don't feel that I need to, although this could just be arrogance on my part, I doubt however that I am alone in this.
Do people actually keep up to date with it regularly?
Urban Sports said:
cptsideways said:
I think the figures are 95% of drivers have'nt read it since passing their test. Which is fairly obvious by the driving standards.
It doesn't make you a bad driver for not reading it though? Does it?
But no, it doesn't make you a bad driver not to regularly read it (FWIW I don't bother to read it cover-to-cover, I just skim it for new things occasionally), but I think it makes it significantly harder to be a good one. The road rules do change and it's good to at least know when you're breaking them, rather than do it through ignorance.
cptsideways said:
Urban Sports said:
cptsideways said:
I think the figures are 95% of drivers have'nt read it since passing their test. Which is fairly obvious by the driving standards.
It doesn't make you a bad driver for not reading it though? Does it?Urban Sports said:
cptsideways said:
Urban Sports said:
cptsideways said:
I think the figures are 95% of drivers have'nt read it since passing their test. Which is fairly obvious by the driving standards.
It doesn't make you a bad driver for not reading it though? Does it?cptsideways said:
Urban Sports said:
cptsideways said:
Urban Sports said:
cptsideways said:
I think the figures are 95% of drivers have'nt read it since passing their test. Which is fairly obvious by the driving standards.
It doesn't make you a bad driver for not reading it though? Does it?Bungleaio said:
I haven't looked at one for a couple of years but I know what all the signs mean, what yellow boxes mean at junctions etc but I couldn't tell you the official braking figures are.
You see this is the issue, if I was to brake in my Focus it would take me twice as long to stop than in my Z4.What is the use of that?
I bought a (then) up-to-date copy when I took my Class 2 lessons/test just over five years ago.
The only "new" thing I discovered was that the practice of switching on your hazard lights when on a motorway to indicate to those behind you that there is stationary traffic ahead (a practice invented by lorry drivers) had been officially adopted into the Highway Code.
The only "new" thing I discovered was that the practice of switching on your hazard lights when on a motorway to indicate to those behind you that there is stationary traffic ahead (a practice invented by lorry drivers) had been officially adopted into the Highway Code.
Cock Womble 7 said:
I bought a (then) up-to-date copy when I took my Class 2 lessons/test just over five years ago.
The only "new" thing I discovered was that the practice of switching on your hazard lights when on a motorway to indicate to those behind you that there is stationary traffic ahead (a practice invented by lorry drivers) had been officially adopted into the Highway Code.
Should always have been there IMOThe only "new" thing I discovered was that the practice of switching on your hazard lights when on a motorway to indicate to those behind you that there is stationary traffic ahead (a practice invented by lorry drivers) had been officially adopted into the Highway Code.
I took my bike test a few months ago so I'm relatively up to date with it. After passing my car test in the late 90's and not reading the highway code since, there were very few surprises in it.
Ones that come to mind are the the stopping distances (that I had forgotten) and transit van can only do 50mph on national speed limit single carriage way. That was a surprise because I had never seen one doing less than about 80mph
Otherwise it was all pretty much as to be expected
Ones that come to mind are the the stopping distances (that I had forgotten) and transit van can only do 50mph on national speed limit single carriage way. That was a surprise because I had never seen one doing less than about 80mph
Otherwise it was all pretty much as to be expected
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