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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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Post by hnha »

mrbrianholland wrote: post #8
rmp2150 wrote: post #5

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.

how did you go about getting licenses to do this from the copyright holders?

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

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Post by wmclafferty »

In addition to the errors other people are experiencing:

- You're not minifying your CSS or JS.

- You're loading your JS at the top of the document, which is slow (http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/high-performance-sites-...)

- Response times for just loading the main page are over a second for me.

- The second panel of your carousel has items that don't fit on one line and break your design.

- 'Select your country' doesn't work.

- Even without interacting with anything on the site, I'm see this error appended to the DOM: "Fatal error: Call to a member function FetchRow() on a non-object in /hermes/bosweb26a/b2005/ipg.monologixcom/drivingtests101/includes/banner_slider.php on line 77"

- Actually, as I click around more, pretty much the whole site is broken...

Good idea, but the site needs a lot more testing (and some design work) before it's useable.

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

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Post by mrbrianholland »

wmclafferty wrote: post #42

In addition to the errors other people are experiencing: - You're not minifying your CSS or JS. - You're loading your JS at the top of the document, which is slow ( http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/high-performance-sites-... ) - Response times for just loading the main page are over a second for me. - The second panel of your carousel has items that don't fit on one line and break your design. - 'Select your coun…

Thanks for your input. Judging by your comments, our server had crashed while you were visiting it, limiting the functionality of the site. I will work on the first few points you mentioned - much appreciated for your input

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

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Post by mrbrianholland »

vxNsr wrote: post #40

While it seems like a great idea, you are gonna need to get more servers if you want to play with the big boys, I can't seem to get anywhere, clicking any link throws an error and the drop down menu is empty. Also I can see elements appear on the page as I download them... I haven't experienced that since 2004. Still +1 for idea/effort

Thank you very much for your feedback. Our server crashed, but now we are back-up. I received a SIGNIFICANT amount of traffic yesterday from the post. I will look into the server issue. Thanks

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

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Post by riobard »

mrbrianholland wrote: post #9
riobard wrote: post #6

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.

Totally. I read the whole manual when I did my driving test, but I still got some a copy of the questions they'll ask to review just before the test. This is definitely a much better choice than some source-unknown papers :D

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

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Post by mrbrianholland »

hnha wrote: post #41
mrbrianholland wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

how did you go about getting licenses to do this from the copyright holders?

The copyright is our own. No copyright issues as we are not copying and instead coming up with a question from a paragraph of text from a manual explaining a particular concept. This is how we derived the vast majority of the questions.

We have copyright of all of our questions.

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

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Post by mrbrianholland »

riobard wrote: post #45
mrbrianholland wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Totally. I read the whole manual when I did my driving test, but I still got some a copy of the questions they'll ask to review just before the test. This is definitely a much better choice than some source-unknown papers :D

Thanks for your feedback. Cheers!

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

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Post by christiangenco »

Protip for young drivers in the US: on the electronic driving test, you can skip questions you don't know. The system will keep asking you questions until you've answered a certain number of questions (I think it's around 20). If you don't know the answer, skip the question and it won't count against you.

This is how I got 100% correct after studying for an hour.

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

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Post by opinali »

christiangenco wrote: post #48

Protip for young drivers in the US: on the electronic driving test, you can skip questions you don't know. The system will keep asking you questions until you've answered a certain number of questions (I think it's around 20). If you don't know the answer, skip the question and it won't count against you. This is how I got 100% correct after studying for an hour.

If you reach the end of your list of questions (50, where you need to score 40 -- NJ anyway), ad you still don't have enough points to pass, the system will simply loop and start asking again the questions that you skipped before. You don't get fresh new questions until passing :)
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