Would you pass the driving test?

**Gavo** · 23rd May 2012, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by bacicat2000

29 - apparently you have to give way to a vehicle you are already in front of when merging into that lane when yours ends - not sure how that works, and as I'm from Melbourne, it sure as **** aint ever going to happen where I come from...

Sorry to break the bad news

Called zip merging on the vc roads page
Zip merging
If you are on a road without lines marked and two rows of vehicles merge into one, you must give way to any vehicle which has any part of its vehicle ahead of yours. Note: If you cross any lines marked on the road, then you are not zip merging but changing lanes and you must give way accordingly.
Give way : VicRoads

**wrinklearthur** · 23rd May 2012, 06:01 PM

27/30
got the distances wrong ( too far ) when parking from corner , bus stop.

And this one,

If you are under 25 years of age and on a P1 provisional licence, how many people under 21 years of age (that are not immediate family members) may be a passenger in you car between 11:00pm and 5:00am.

answer is 1, not 0 ???? but then a girl friend isn't family unless !!!???

Where's Ron? "you" should be "your" surely ?

**tonic** · 23rd May 2012, 06:40 PM

I have a defender with a bull bar and a mack with a bigger bull bar, I make my own rules

**bussy1963** · 24th May 2012, 09:23 PM

Originally Posted by It'sNotWorthComplaining!

basically it means you are in front but your lane/road has ended, so you must cross the path of an upcoming vehicle in their lane which has not ended, you are in fact cutting them off.

This is true your impeding there driving line. However in saying that who has noticed the situation where a car in a left lane wanting to merge to the right. Taps the brakes in a YES/NO/MAYBE will I go situation (normally women drivers). Next thing you know everyone in the right lane is under brakes.

My answer is this. Firstly do you know the person in the car on the right lane. Next are you having a affair with them Thirdly are they a relo to them. Finally are you married to them. If you answer NO to these four questions stuff them plant the foot and merge in.

It is a lot safer to speed up and merge at same speed than brake wait to late situations

**Sue** · 24th May 2012, 10:13 PM

30/30.. which was a surprise as I thought it would be harder.. either that I just got lucky..

**p38arover** · 25th May 2012, 03:09 PM

I'm amazed at the simplicity of the questions I was asked. All answered correctly.

**Tombie** · 25th May 2012, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by bussy1963

This is true your impeding there driving line. However in saying that who has noticed the situation where a car in a left lane wanting to merge to the right. Taps the brakes in a YES/NO/MAYBE will I go situation (normally women drivers). Next thing you know everyone in the right lane is under brakes.

My answer is this. Firstly do you know the person in the car on the right lane. Next are you having a affair with them Thirdly are they a relo to them. Finally are you married to them. If you answer NO to these four questions stuff them plant the foot and merge in.

It is a lot safer to speed up and merge at same speed than brake wait to late situations

And if you can do that (the bit in green) without cutting off the driver in the other lane then you have no necessity to "give way" as you wont impede their progress.

If however your vehicle cannot get up to speed, and you cause them (or me) to slow down - then you deserve everything you get

**Tombie** · 25th May 2012, 04:07 PM

Those are some damn easy questions.... Clean sweep here.

**Homestar** · 25th May 2012, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by skuilnaam

And if you can do that (the bit in green) without cutting off the driver in the other lane then you have no necessity to "give way" as you wont impede their progress.

Thanks - That is exactly the point I was originally trying to make - the question showed the whole of my vehicle in front of the other car - it did not say anything about them being slowed down or impeeded by me, it just said I was wrong to move in front of it - The fact that I would have been going as fast or faster than that vehicle was not considered in that question - no one would have been cut off, but my answer was incorrect.

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