BikeStormer

The Department for Transport has proposed a raft of changes to the driving and riding tests including requiring that car learners acquire a "test readiness certificate" before taking the test and a much more complicated practical test that will asses candidate's ability to navigate. One area that won't be sorted out, however, is the theory test, some areas of which are downright peculiar.

Questions for the theory test can currently be set not only by expert staff at the Driving Standards Agency, but proposed by any MPs or councilors, whatever their agenda. One current question in the bike and car theory test is as follows:

The test required to get a full motorcycle license is going to get a massive overhall at the end of the summer and become a lot more complicated. One of the minor changes will be that finally the examiners will get a bike specific form to fill in when assessing the candidates riding.

This is long overdue, but one of the changes is rather troubling, the inclusion of the section on filtering.

Currently the highway code doesn't detail what filtering is, or how it should be done. The closest thing to it is a rather vague comment about overtaking.

Rule 143 states "Do not overtake where you might come into conflict with other road users. For example approaching or at a road junction on either side of the road"