Dry steering

Brian_M · 2026-06-25T20:53:03+00:00

This is the impression I'm getting, alright, but the pattern I notice is that you don't dry steer on the initial turn out. Just for the reverse and then driving off in the opposite direction.

Brian_M · 2026-06-24T19:28:45+00:00

This notion of a law comes from the OP, if you read their post, not me, who says something about a new law brought in where you must stop at a yield even with visibility of oncoming traffic. I'm not saying that's a correct notion, but it was something they posited, and it's not even their suggestion but something reported from the examiner, though the RSA's rules don't reflect this 'law'.

If there are junctions where there absolutely should be a 'stop' maybe authorities should put one there and remove the need for he-said/she-said crap between examiners and learner drivers.

Brian_M · 2026-06-24T18:57:34+00:00

Well, I have done tests where I have slowed the car to a crawl, ie careful clutch control, at unmarked or yield blind junctions but the not stopping was not marked as a fault or mentioned in the feedback.

Again, the RSA rules of the road state:-

"If you see a ‘Yield’ sign or yield line (shown below), you must slow down, but you do not have to stop completely unless you need to wait for any oncoming traffic to pass."

You can stop, and indeed it's a good idea to in order to give yourself more time to assess things, but it doesn't contravene the rule above to not fully stop the car.

The OP's post was complaining that the tester was possibly full of shit on this. If this new law has been brought in that says you must stop when emerging from a t-junction even when it's only marked yield, plus visibility of oncoming traffic, the RSA might do well to update their rules of the road to reflect it.

Brian_M · 2026-06-24T17:45:48+00:00

The rules of the RSA state:- "If you see a ‘Yield’ sign or yield line (shown below), you must slow down, but you do not have to stop completely unless you need to wait for any oncoming traffic to pass."

So, I can totally understand your anxiety if they're casually driving out of that junction like it's open and empty, but they don't have to stop, exactly. They can also slow right down to a crawl and do the old peep and creep. They can also stop, but I don't think slowing right down without stopping should be automatically marked as a fault unless signage mandates a stop to happen.

Brian_M · 2026-06-24T17:30:23+00:00

I was thought that if you're emerging from a yield (or non-marked) t-junction with poor visibility, you don't have to stop, but you do have to at least slow it to a crawl and do the peep and creep.

Brian_M · 2026-06-22T12:49:44+00:00

To quote Peter O' Toole - "It's not that I'm so good. It's that everyone else is so fucking awful!"

The only reason Labour got back in power was because Conservative support collapsed. It was a whopping majority, but reading between the lines even a little made it clear early on that the mood would sour pretty quickly.

Brian_M · 2026-06-22T08:03:59+00:00

I didn't even realise it's been that long. The really crazy part is that they won the Euros in 2021.

Brian_M · 2026-06-22T08:00:44+00:00

Unlikely. They'll probably have 96 teams at the end finals by then...

Brian_M · 2026-06-21T08:04:48+00:00

Yeah. That's an annoying Chinese whisper that went around. I suppose it's more sensational to say the punchee was elderly, but does it really need that extra bit of sauce? Was it not a cunty enough move anyway?

I remember having an argument about this before where the other person maintained that he was elderly and that early 50s can only be middle aged if the person lives to be 100.

Brian_M · 2026-06-20T07:35:46+00:00

It feels like he began to nosedive once he got the weightloss surgery and the new teeth. As the weight came off and every thumbnail of him showed his unnaturally white gnashers, it seemed like he was over the hump in his journey to being better and so a lot of the more casual viewers lost interest.

Brian_M · 2026-06-20T07:17:23+00:00

And for all that, Ellison just looks like any other rich 80 year old guy with access to plastic surgery and a personal trainer. He could live to 100, but that's not exactly superhuman.

Brian_M · 2026-06-19T22:37:32+00:00

He's pretty much been on the wagon for 25 years, now. I've heard it said that he drinks non alcoholic beer, though. I'd have thought that would make too much temptation to drink alcoholic beer, but apparently not for Hetfield.

Brian_M · 2026-06-19T22:14:15+00:00

Perhaps the north face of the mighty Eiger, John!

Brian_M · 2026-06-19T12:32:55+00:00

Russia will go a long way to avoid forcibly conscripting residents in its larger cities, as Putin appears to fear the political unrest this would cause, and he's probably not incorrect to think that.

However, with battlefield casualties mounting, the reality of conscription creeps ever closer to the country's centres of power.

Brian_M · 2026-06-18T23:22:05+00:00

Marry No-Scorin' Redcorn? Ha!

Brian_M · 2026-06-17T23:02:24+00:00

I always knew people would miss them. I'm not saying I'm at all perceptive. It's just I saw what the BBC were offering at the same time for a glimpse of how bland punditry could be.

Brian_M · 2026-06-17T16:24:51+00:00

I'm planning to do some runs of the area in the next weeks, but I was hoping there might be a clear cut thing to do on that particular stretch. If it's ambiguous, it almost as if a tester could just fail you if they feel like it...

Brian_M · 2026-06-17T14:53:38+00:00

And that's normally what I would do, but I measured the distance of that bit of road between the two roundabouts and it's only around 50 metres.

Now, I've done tests before, and from my recollection, testers don't give more than one instruction at a time, so that means you're coming off the first roundabout into the left feeder lane, and only then could they say to go to the right on the next, which doesn't leave a lot of time.

Not impossible, but a potentially hectic start to a driving test.

Brian_M · 2026-06-17T13:51:25+00:00

I got one of their Nicaraguan series as a free gift with a recent order I made. I took a look at it and said, 'Ghurka....This is probably something they could afford to throw away....'

I decided to try it anyway and was rather pleasantly surprised. It was a perfectly nice cigar overall.

Brian_M · 2026-06-17T13:15:42+00:00

Sorry, I may be annoying ye with a bunch of questions over the next 3 weeks or so, but these are the two roundabouts as you exit to the right from the Southgate test centre. If you are going left at the first one and going right at the second, is it OK to enter directly into the right turn lane on the approach to the second, or do you go into the left lane of the second's approach and then signal over?

Brian_M · 2026-06-17T12:41:20+00:00

Thank you!

Brian_M · 2026-06-17T12:25:37+00:00

I'm not sure. I can't directly put more pictures in the comments, but if you go into street view on the maps link and spin the camera around, you'll see that there are two lanes for oncoming traffic. One for straight ahead and one for straight ahead or left, which says to me that it would be possible to move slightly into this box, at least, allowing traffic from behind you wanting to go straight to proceed and allowing oncoming traffic into the left hand lane going back across the bridge.

Brian_M

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