National Driver's Test

[tplyons]

Originally Posted by nationaldriverstest.com

More familiar with the rules of the road? Or are you one of the 41 million American drivers who would fail a written drivers test today?

Here's your chance to find out. The GMAC Insurance National Drivers Test features 20 questions from actual DMV tests across the nation. See if you're as good as you think – or if you need a little refresher course in Driver's Ed.

New York and New Jersey had the worst averages at 70.5% and 71.5% respectively.

Idaho and Wisconsin had the highest averages at 80.6%.

How would you score? Take it at www.nationaldriverstest.com

I scored a 90%... one question was somewhat unclear, and I misread another. And yes, I learned to drive in New Jersey.

[Gubna]

oooh that's good for me, as I'm studying to finally get my license!

I got an 80% and I haven't even finished reading the CA handbook. not bad, eh?

[DaveDeVille]

meh ...
scored an 80% .

a few of the questions were sorta' confusing .

[Nappa]

75%

[TheXym]

90%. One was ambiguous, misread another. Learned in PA.

[KeithBMI]

95%

I can't believe I missed the "driving in bad weather" question.

unce unce unce unce

[PSPookie]

100% -- that doesn't necessarily mean I'm a good driver though

[JNowiski]

i got to question 8 then got lazy and didn't want to answer the rest of the questions. i'm a fail.

[kanonfodr]

90%, but in my mind I made a perfect. I missed the steady yellow light (which in some places means SPEED UP!!!!) and apparently it is not allowable to go off the pavement to pass another vehicle. These people apparently do not drive trucks. Sometimes it aint a good day unless you've spent a few hours off of the pavement.

Peace,
Greg

[tplyons]

So far Talkbass has an 87.5%... we're now the best driving state in the nation.

[Araillac]

75% and I'm from Virginia. Sorry to bring down our % guys lol. I'm actually a pretty good driver though. These are just numbers. They don't mean anything.

[Grizzly700]

95% and I'm going to get my driving permit this week.

[baba]

95%

[Steve]

14. When you are merging onto the freeway, you should be driving:
A. At or near the same speed as the traffic on the freeway
B. 5 to 10 miles per hour slower than the traffic on the freeway
C. The posted speed limit for traffic on the freeway


The correct answer is A?
Most of the traffic I see is exceeding the posted legal speed limit by at least 10-15mph.

Is GMAC advocating the disregarding of posted speed limits?

I bet you get a speeding ticket going 15 over up the onramp and they jack your rates through the roof.

[Araillac]

I failed that question too. Although I do follow A, I figured I'd put the correct answer. Since I know what right and wrong is, I just choose wrong sometimes.

[Steve]

lol. so do I. better to be safe than legal.

I just know somewhere in the GMAC legal dept is a liability attorney having a conniption that they put that in print thus exposing them to some sort of idiotic lawsuit by some idiot that looses control and says: "GMAC told me to do it!"

[Pilgrim]

Score=100%.

Not that I always drive according to the test.

But the only safe way to merge is to be at LEAST as fast as the traffic on the highway.

[warwick.hoy]

85%

GMAC doesn't want you to keep your eyes on the road. Putting a car length between you and the other car is also defensive driving.

You can get a traffic citation for "following too closely" AKA tailgating.

The yellow light one I missed because I didn't read all the answers carefully enough. Even still I consider myself a good driver....Driving since I was 17 and only been in one accident...fender bender a few days after I 1st got my license. FWIW I use mass transit more often than not.

EDIT: +1...how do you expect to get on the highway going faster or slower than everyone around you. 90% of the time I find that one A and C are one and the same.

[TrooperFarva]

100%. Easy enough.

[jwbassman]

95%

I missed the one about normal following distance. I said 10 seconds.