The master key to road safety isn’t rules, it’s predictability

Driving test

If you understand that almost every road rule is a way of making traffic interaction predictable, you are more likely to remember the rule even if you read it only once.

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You have noted before that the driving test syllabus in countries with stringent standards runs to two text books of 500 pages…each. That sounds like a university degree course. Is there a technique to make it easier to understand and remember?

Slowly read this list of words to a friend, once: “Tree, heaven, gate, sticks, door, vine, hen, shoe, gun, hive”, and then immediately talk about something else for a couple of minutes.

After the chat, how many of the words can your friend remember? The chances of complete and exact recall are pretty slim, even if your mate is a bit of a boffin. 

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.