National Drivers test by GMAC

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What did you score?

  • 100%

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • 95%

    Votes: 2 10.5%

  • 90%

    Votes: 6 31.6%

  • 85%

    Votes: 5 26.3%

  • 80%

    Votes: 3 15.8%

  • 75%

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • 70% and lower

    Votes: 1 5.3%
  • Total voters
    19
I had to see how a Norwegian would do.. I got 65%, thing is US laws are really different from ours. If you want to take the test without cheating, don't read on.. :) Flashing red lights? We don't have such a thing, only flashing yellow. Stateside it's okay passing on the right hand side if it's you're on a multi-lane highway with 2 lanes or more in each direction, apparently.. Are you ******** with me?? This makes is more common to drive slow in the left lane.
 
Erik, unlike Europe, no one here understands that they should be in the right lane unless over taking. No one. At all. I have to pass people doing 5 under on the freeway that are just sitting in the far left lane, all the time.

I got a 90% when I took it the other day, was fairly content with it and had enough understanding that I knew exactly why I marked what wrong.
 
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same with me, common sense is just better then some of the "rules".
 
Missed only ONE!!!
Apparently you can pass on the right in either of the conditions presented...Which was the original answer I had, but I had second thoughts...

I hate my second thoughts.

@Eriksmil: The flashing red is typically used under two conditions:

1: To reinforce a stop sign at a dangerous intersection, but when full-time traffic control is not necessary.
2: In the event of a system failure at a stoplight.
 
90% I missed #14 (Put that you should be 5-10mph slower, not at the same speed) and #18 (Put be prepared to stop, not stop if safe to...Either seems like a correct answer to me). In practice I don't think #14 works at all...You have to adjust your speed so that you can merge into the traffic and not expect people to get out of your way when you are going the same speed.
 
100%, all of those were common sense to be honest.
 
When you approach a traffic signal displaying a steady yellow light, you must:
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We in Texas do not have such lights so I guessed.

And I accidently clicked the wrong option on one of the questions so I got that wrong when I shouldn't of.

When you approach a stopped school bus with flashing red lights, you should:
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The Texas law is a bit more specific...
  • If you are on a divided roadway and the bus is on the opposite side you do not have to stop.
  • If you are on a divided roadway and the bus in on your side you stop behind it.
  • If you are on a roadway that has no median (non-divided) you have to stop regardless of which side has the school bus.

So that question they asked is a bit misleading as the laws vary from state to state.

This test = fail
 
JCE
We in Texas do not have such lights so I guessed.


This test = fail
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That was meaning a standard traffic light that has green, yellow, and red. In that scenario the yellow light would have been lit and be changing to red soon.

Edit: Tree'd.
 
You don't have yellow lights in Texas? Cause I've been there and defiantly seen yellow lights on your traffic signals and they work exactly they same as they do in every other state.
 
95%

Spoilers: Apparantly you're not supposed to pass people using the shoulder. In the situation I was imagining, people are going a very slow speed... right around 5 mph. The reason is that on my way to work in the morning, there is a two lane highway that regularly gets backed up with a large amount of people waiting to turn left. I and many other people just jump onto the shoulder and pass everyone at around 5 mph instead of sitting there waiting for 20+ cars to turn. No, I'm not passing people using the shoulder at 55 mph, that's ridiculous.
 
Some of the rules are very different to Australia, but I got 80% regardless, not bad for a foreigner I hope.

Also, I don't know why, but when they said diamond shaped sign I pictured a triangle in my head, which is give way in Australia.:lol:
 
Rotary Junkie
So your traffic lights have no "yellow" phase?

Eh? That's what they meant though, no traffic light just stays on yellow at all times.
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Eric.
That was meaning a standard traffic light that has green, yellow, and red. In that scenario the yellow light would have been lit and be changing to red soon.

Edit: Tree'd.
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Joey D
You don't have yellow lights in Texas? Cause I've been there and defiantly seen yellow lights on your traffic signals and they work exactly they same as they do in every other state.
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I misread that, I thought they meant it ONLY had a steady yellow light with nothing else. We have intersections with only flashing yellow lights, I assumed they meant the same thing only steady yellow. My mistake. :D
 
My girlfriend got 80% but she "actually" got 90% because of trick questions 18, and 19.
 
I got 90%, I think 15 is a bad question as it would vary depending on the thickness of the fog. Last year the fog was so thick you couldn't see anything no matter what you were using. 16 is also subjective as it would depend on how fast you were going(I was tought 1 second for every 10mph). So I guess I could argue for 100%.
 
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Northstar3914
I got 90%, I think 15 is a bad question as it would vary depending on the thickness of the fog. Last year the fog was so thick you couldn't see anything no matter what you were using.
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Well using the high-beams would be a pretty bad idea. And why would you use fog lights only? Not to mention some cars don't have fog lights.

Northstar3914
16 is also subjective as it would depend on how fast you were going(I was taught 1 second for every 10mph). So I guess I could argue for 100%.
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Why would you assume you are going 100 or 200mph? Either way I think the 3 second rule adjusted for conditions seems the best, since as you go faster the distance increases. Increasing the time as speed increases doesn't make much sense to me.
 
Its been a while since a driving test, but I managed an 85% with some simple mistakes. Depends on your driving style, I guess?
 
75%. Got confused with some of the lights - either lights I'm not familiar with (flashing red), or have a different meaning here (some of the yellows) - and I didn't know undertaking was (officially) allowed in the States. Not bad for someone who's never left Europe, methinks.
 

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