DunfordBridge
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I was reading a post by FlamTap on a closed thread regarding train driver assessment containing a link, http://youtu.be/mPe_l2XrEEc, to a video describing the ATAVT Adaptive Tachistoscopic Traffic Perception Test that is likely to appear in the new train driver assessments.
The video contains a few demonstration questions whereby a photo depicting a traffic scene is shown momentarily followed by a question asking which features were present in the photgraphed scene, such as road signs, traffic lights, vehicles and cyclists.
I was wondering if anyone has actually seen the video in question. As someone who has passed the advanced driving course with the Institute of Advanced Motorists, I actually found one of the photos quite tricky, which showed all four of these features (road signs, etc) simultaneously.
We were shown photos along these lines as part of the classroom training. Additionally, we would drive around chanting out speed limits and instructions on road signs but no amount of chanting, I feel, would prepare you for this image, not that I do much chanting these days. Basically, you are interpreting three-dimensional information from a two-dimensional image. The other images are considerably easier however.
I believe you can buy software to emulate this test from the ever-helpful How2Become people. My enthusiasm may be waning but I am not sure I would want to pay £37 for the software, particularly when I could avail myself of practice material quite self-sufficiently.
How hard can it be to take a few photographs of traffic scenes, all I need to do is to go around taking photos in the middle of Scarborough although ideally I would have to do this in territory that is not quite so familiar?
The video contains a few demonstration questions whereby a photo depicting a traffic scene is shown momentarily followed by a question asking which features were present in the photgraphed scene, such as road signs, traffic lights, vehicles and cyclists.
I was wondering if anyone has actually seen the video in question. As someone who has passed the advanced driving course with the Institute of Advanced Motorists, I actually found one of the photos quite tricky, which showed all four of these features (road signs, etc) simultaneously.
We were shown photos along these lines as part of the classroom training. Additionally, we would drive around chanting out speed limits and instructions on road signs but no amount of chanting, I feel, would prepare you for this image, not that I do much chanting these days. Basically, you are interpreting three-dimensional information from a two-dimensional image. The other images are considerably easier however.
I believe you can buy software to emulate this test from the ever-helpful How2Become people. My enthusiasm may be waning but I am not sure I would want to pay £37 for the software, particularly when I could avail myself of practice material quite self-sufficiently.
How hard can it be to take a few photographs of traffic scenes, all I need to do is to go around taking photos in the middle of Scarborough although ideally I would have to do this in territory that is not quite so familiar?
