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I compiled 40,000+ driving test questions for 11 countries. What do you think?

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Re: I compiled 40,000+ driving test questions for 11 countries. What do you think?

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Assuming the declaration is true, great job! There's a "but", though:

I get a (rather ugly) 404 error if I click on my state without selecting a country first. It wasn't obvious to me that I had to select United States in the first dropdown since the second dropdown already had the fifty states loaded it. You should disable the second dropdown until a country is selected, or better yet don't even show it until the user selects from the first one.

Re: I compiled 40,000+ driving test questions for 11 countries. What do you think?

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post #3

Assuming the declaration is true, great job! There's a "but", though: I get a (rather ugly) 404 error if I click on my state without selecting a country first. It wasn't obvious to me that I had to select United States in the first dropdown since the second dropdown already had the fifty states loaded it. You should disable the second dropdown until a country is selected, or better yet don't even show it until the us…

Thank you very much for mentioning your issue, I greatly appreciate it. I will fix this.

Yes, the declaration is true. Took a lot of time! There is roughly 200 questions per US state per vehicle type. Plus questions for other countries.

Re: I compiled 40,000+ driving test questions for 11 countries. What do you think?

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How did you go about compiling 40,000 driving test questions?

Reading (many) driver manuals, inputting questions from YouTube videos of people who videotaped their printed test, receiving questions from users, receiving questions from other third parties. While some of the questions are common, I can assure you majority of questions are unique (eg - different state rules, differnt questions for car vs. truck vs. bus, etc), so the work required has been significant to do this.

Re: I compiled 40,000+ driving test questions for 11 countries. What do you think?

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My biggest worry is that people may rely too much on this instead of, you know, RTFM, by which they'll learn a lot of useful stuff, especially those concerning safety.

Agreed. Some people view as this as a replacement to a manual and others as a complement to a manual. Bottom line, I wish I had this resource 10 years ago when I wrote my driving test, the content is free, and the website (and especially the apps) do a much better job of engaging 16 years old than a manual will ever do.

Re: I compiled 40,000+ driving test questions for 11 countries. What do you think?

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When doing a practice test, your app does a crazy number of requests to the server for each question. Why not load all questions/answers at the same time? That would improve the speed tremendously and would reduce the load on your servers.

For the app or website?
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