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Q: The written drivers exam
What is with the written drivers test in this country? I have been taking some practice exams online prior to going for the real thing. I have managed to deal rather well with the Chinglish translation, but some of the things advocated in the exam are just plain stupid and dangerous. Example: When two cars are heading towards each other on a narrow downhill road which car should go first? The answer is the car going uphill....try this on a wet or icy downhill road and hope the laws of physics are suspended for the day I guess. 
How many folks on here passed this exam and how many times did you take it before passing is the question.
7 years 7 weeks ago in Transport & Travel - Hangzhou
'Hill' rule is written for driving in normal (dry) occasions. Which car would easier start to drive again, if both cars come to a complete stop? Down-hill car, so it must stop (first), and let up-hill car continue with the ride without the stop.
If 'hill road' is frozen, only birds can 'drive'…...I don't drive (anything) in China.
I think the theory is pretty much like the rest of the world. Giving way to the vehicle going uphill is the norm. The question didn't say it was raining, and if it was raining and you are going downhill faster than you can stop to safeguard the other traffic... well then you're just driving like a Chinese aren't you?
GOOG on 'hill driving':
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/129895
Posters (I think) on the tread are 'snow-dens'
(yanks). One of the A is:
"Whether a car is going uphill or downhill does not matter in deciding right of way, accoring to the rules of the road -- at least in the U.S.
If you obey all road signs and signals, plus the rule that the vehicle on the right has right of way at a 4-way stop when more than one arrives at the intersection together, then right of way is already determined. Which way the road slopes is irrelevant.
Comments
Your right, you answers do apply to the US, but not in the UK."
Read more: Who has the right of way, a car going uphill or a car going downhill? | Answerbag http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/129895#ixzz2n3baqHEo
If you need to back up while going uphill no problem and you can see the traffic coming behind you. Want to back up going downhill requires more power hence more traction and you can not observe the traffic behind you approaching the crest of the hill so your vision is limited. You certainly have more control going uphill than down especially in a loaded down vehicle or pulling a trailer where the rear of the car will try to pass the front when you hit the brakes.
I passed it 4 years ago. It's sooo easy. 97 score. Don't worry.. But I would use an agent, hasle free.
the test is pretty easy if you drive at home, really just a formally. but the practical side become do as i say and not as i do
wuweizea:
Does not make sense in dry conditions either. The car coming downhill will always have more difficulty stopping. Who cares if it takes more inertia to move a car uphill, that is the point of waiting for the car coming down the hill. Failure of the brakes (think large loaded truck) is far more likely on the downhill run and will cause a more serious issue than letting him pass before you start the climb.