In Part 2 of the Driver Qualification Test you will be presented with 10 traffic situations or questions (shown from driver's viewpoint) randomly selected from a large pool of questions.
At the beginning of each question you will be told about the traffic situation and will be shown a simple instruction (eg. Touch the screen on every occasion that you would slow down).
To respond to each scene or question, you may need to touch the screen whenever a response is required (eg. when you would slow down or turn right in traffic). Unlike the Hazard Perception Test, you may need to touch the screen more than once during the running of a traffic scene . However you only need to touch the screen once for each single hazard or safe gap in traffic that you identify. For example, if there are 3 hazards (or safe gaps) in a particular traffic scene, you should touch the screen 3 times, once for each. When you touch the screen the situation will continue (it will not stop/slow down or you will NOT actually turn right) and you will need to look out for more opportunities to touch the screen. Remember, in some traffic situations, the correct response is NOT to touch the screen at all, while in others the correct response is to touch the screen once or more than once - you need to assess the situation and decide.
Now let's see 2 interactive examples that will demonstrate how to respond to hazard perception questions. In the first example, you are standing at an intersection waiting to turn right and are asked to touch the screen each time you would go (turn right). In the second you are driving along a street and are asked to touch the screen each time you would slow down. Click below to see these demonstrations now. You can view them as often as you like.
Did you notice that in the first example there was one, rather long safe gap - so the best response would have been to touch the screen once. In the real test you may be shown similar situations, in some there may be no safe gaps at all while in others there could be more than one safe gap.
In the second example there were two clear hazards, did you spot them? The first one was a person opening the door of a car, the second a car approaching from the left. So the correct response was to touch the screen twice to indicate you would slow down for these hazards. Did you notice that 'your' car did not actually slow down when you touched the screen? This is ok, the computer has registered your 'slow down' response and you should look out for more or other hazards.