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Driving Test

A 3D driving examination simulator. An examiner sits beside you, gives you a route and marks how you drive it, including the mirror checks and the indicators.

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No sign-up, no download. Keyboard, gamepad or a phone.

What it is

Most driving games ask how fast you got round. This one asks whether you would have passed. You get a car, a city and an examiner who tells you where to turn. Everything you do between the instructions is being marked.

Steering comes quickly. The habits underneath it are the part that is hard to practise, and they are what this is for. Signal before you move. Look before you signal. Know what is beside you before you go there.

The examiner, and the points

You start on 100 points. Every fault the examiner sees costs you some of them, and it is named on screen as it happens, so you never finish a drive wondering what went wrong. Finish the route on 70 or more and you pass.

Three faults do not deduct. They end the drive where it stands, the way a real test does:

  • Hitting a pedestrian
  • Running a red light
  • Colliding with anything

The same fault will not be recorded twice in a row for a few seconds, so one long mistake costs you once rather than twenty times.

What is being marked

mirror checkssignallingred lightsspeed controlkeeping clearlane disciplinelane markingsgap choiceroundaboutspedestrian crossingscyclist clearancehill startsparking accuracy

Not all of them on every map. Each map is scored on what it actually contains, so a map with no roundabout has no roundabout faults.

Mirrors, shoulder checks and indicators

There are two ways of looking, and they are not interchangeable. This is the part people get wrong most often.

A turn accepts either. You are not moving sideways into a space someone might already be occupying, so the glance down the road that a mirror gives you counts as having looked.

A blind-spot manoeuvre needs the shoulder check specifically: changing lane, merging off a slip road, reversing. No mirror covers a blind spot, and turning your head costs you the road ahead for a moment. Judging when to accept that is part of driving, so the examiner insists on it.

A check counts if you made it within 11 seconds of the manoeuvre starting, so waiting at a red light does not undo the look you took on the approach. The indicator is marked separately, on every turn and every lane change.

Four ways to drive

10 maps, in 4 sections

Lessons that each teach one thing, roads that ask for lane discipline at speed, a quiet grid to practise the manoeuvres on, and a whole city to drive around with nobody marking you.

Lessonsone skill each

  • City driving●●○

    Signalised intersections, two lanes each way, lane changes and parallel traffic.

    50 km/h300 m acrossabout 4 min

  • Hills●●○

    Hill starts, controlled descents and stop-and-go on a steep grade.

    50 km/h200 m acrossabout 3 min

  • School zone●○○

    A 30 km/h zone with a crossing guard and children stepping onto the road.

    30–50 km/h200 m acrossabout 3 min

  • Playground zone●○○

    A 30 km/h zone, a stray ball, kids chasing it and cars pulling out.

    30–50 km/h200 m acrossabout 3 min

  • Residential●○○

    Cyclists, pedestrians and cars reversing out of driveways at 40 km/h.

    40 km/h200 m acrossabout 4 min

Advanced roadslane discipline at speed

  • Multi-lane arterial●●●

    Turn-only lanes, a bus lane, a car-pool lane and roadworks closing a lane ahead.

    40–60 km/h300 m acrossabout 3 min

  • Boulevard●●○

    A three-lane boulevard crossing two-lane residential streets, and the junctions where they meet.

    40–60 km/h300 m acrossabout 4 min

  • Motorway merging●●●

    A motorway with slip roads: match the speed, check the blind spot, take the gap.

    50–80 km/h300 m acrossabout 3 min

Manoeuvresthe manoeuvre, not the traffic

  • Practice area●○○

    A quiet grid with a car park and a kerbside gap: bay reversing and parallel parking.

    40 km/h200 m acrossabout 3 min

Free drivinga whole city, no examiner

  • Metro●●●

    A whole city — districts, roundabouts and 1.5 km of streets. No examiner.

    30–50 km/h1.5 km acrossno examiner

Keyboard, gamepad or a phone

Plug in a controller and it is picked up mid-drive, without a setting to find. A key is on or off, while a stick and a trigger are analogue, so on a gamepad you can hold a quarter of a turn or half the brake. That is the difference worth having here.

On a touchscreen the controls come to you: steering and the pedals dock along the bottom edge the moment you touch the glass, in portrait or landscape. The indicators are the door mirrors — tap the one you are turning towards to signal, hold it to look over that shoulder, or swipe across the road to glance that way without reaching for anything.

Gamepad

Right trigger
Throttle
Left trigger
Brake
Left stick
Steer left · Steer right
A
Handbrake
Left bumper
Look in the left mirror
Right bumper
Look in the right mirror
Right stick, left
Shoulder check, left
Right stick, right
Shoulder check, right
D-pad left, or right stick up
Indicate left
D-pad right, or right stick down
Indicate right
B
Drive / reverse
Y
Camera view
X
Horn
Start
Pause

Standard layout. Anything the browser cannot map is ignored rather than guessed at.

Keyboard

W
Throttle
S
Brake
A
Steer left
D
Steer right
Space
Handbrake
Q
Look in the left mirror
E
Look in the right mirror
←
Shoulder check, left
→
Shoulder check, right
↑
Indicate left
↓
Indicate right
R
Drive / reverse
C
Camera view
H
Horn
M
Mute
P
Pause
Esc
Abandon the test

The point of it

Confidence, rather than lap times.

Plenty of people find driving daunting, and the expensive, nerve-shredding way to find out whether you would remember your blind spot is to be sitting next to a real examiner. Here you can get it wrong a hundred times for nothing, which is roughly what it takes before the looking becomes automatic.

That is what practice mode is for. Keep driving after the mistake that would have ended a real test, and see how the rest of the route would have gone.

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