My company has a driver "permit" thing in place, where an outsourced company checks every year that you are still OK to drive company vehicles. So you have to fill in forms about when you last had an eyetest, accidents, convictions, training undertaken etc.
They also have a section where you do a multiple choice theory test like thing, a section on driving attitudes, and a video game where you are shown 10 video clips then asked a question.
Every time the question pools have annoying, or downright wrong, questions. You are put straight into the questions, so you aren't answering based upon information they've given you in a training session. - this is pre-existing knowledge.
My favourite this year was
"How many deaths on the road involve a driver who is over the legal limit for alcohol?" . - that's a reasonable question. Answers are:-
- 1 in 6
- 2 in 10
- 5 in 10
- 3 in 20
OK, so apart from the confusing change in ranges making this a bit of a maths test, the answers are roughly 17%, 20%, 50% or 15%. The correct one, according to them, was 17%. First irritation - to a company car driver, who cares to within a couple of %? And who, other than a road traffic statistics geek, would know that? Plus, according to the latest government stats (published early this year for 2018) the figure was 26% in 1979, fallen to 16% in 1988, and since 2010 has been around 13%. So none were correct.
Way to go to get people bought into this being valuable and worthwhile when it is impossible to get right other than guessing.
On the driving attitudes, you are asked to answer on a five point range questions like "Do you ever change your driving style because you are running late" from Never to Always.
One question this time was "I do not like the feeling of being lost" ranged from Disagree to Agree. How on earth do you answer that? It's a "have you stopped beating your wife?" question. If I agree, then it says that I should be planning more and chilling out. But for disagreeing, who genuinely enjoys being lost unless you are doing a follow-your-nose leisure trip?
Aaargh. At least it's only once a year.