{"id":125,"date":"2013-02-16T19:39:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T19:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drivingschoolssunderland.wordpress.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2013-05-13T20:39:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T20:39:29","slug":"a-potential-revamp-of-the-dsa-driving-theory-test-hpt-clips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/a-potential-revamp-of-the-dsa-driving-theory-test-hpt-clips\/","title":{"rendered":"A potential revamp of the DSA driving theory test HPT clips?"},"content":{"rendered":"
After a number of years of using actual in-car video footage to present the Hazard Perception part of the driving theory test, the DSA (Driving Standards Agency) are now in consultation to revamp these clips by using state-of-the art CGI (Computer Generated Images) versions.<\/h5>\n
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I believe the reasoning behind this is that by using CGI, it will be both safer than trying to capture actual hazard situations developing in a real world environment, as well as providing the DSA with unlimited options in regards to the on-road situations they can create.<\/h5>\n
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Having viewed a couple of early examples which have been released into the public domain, I must say that even though they do look quite impressive, I\u2019m personally not in favour of these – even though I can appreciate they\u2019re currently very much in their infancy at this stage.<\/h5>\n
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In my opinion, I feel that no matter how good these image sequences are, they are ultimately not going to be representative of the real life situations that drivers\u2019 face every day – it would be very difficult to recreate realistically things such as shadows, reflections in windows and depth of gradient etc. – all of which form part of the information picture that drivers use to anticipate the actions of others.<\/h5>\n
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For me, aside from actually placing the student driver in the drivers\u2019 seat of an actual moving vehicle, an updated series of clips using real in-car footage would work best.<\/h5>\n
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These are simply my own opinions on the matter of course . . . maybe it\u2019s just me!<\/h5>\n
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You can check out the a sample clip and judge for yourself by following the link below –<\/h5>\n

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http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J1LxpWVEtik&list=PLFBDFFC77BEB33781&index=1&feature=plpp_video<\/a><\/h5>\n

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Just a thought – could the potentially clearer, less cluttered image sequences make the test easier?<\/h5>\n
It will certainly be\u00a0interesting to see if the proposed CGI clips have an influence on the current theory test success rate . . .<\/h5>\n

Chris<\/p>\n

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After a number of years of using actual in-car video footage to present the Hazard Perception part of the driving theory test, the DSA (Driving Standards Agency) are now in consultation to revamp these clips by using state-of-the art CGI (Computer Generated Images) versions. I believe the reasoning behind this is that by using CGI, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[16,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}