The answer options
- Prior to employing the 'Mirrors - Signal - Manoeuvre' technique
- When checking your gap from the vehicle in frontCorrect
- Prior to starting the engine again after a stall,
- When a traffic light goes green
Why that is the answer
The two-second rule helps you maintain a safe separation distance from the vehicle in front in dry conditions. Choose a fixed landmark ahead. When the vehicle in front passes it, count two seconds. If you reach the landmark before you finish counting, you are following too closely and need to drop back. The Highway Code advises doubling this gap to four seconds on wet roads.
How this comes up in the real test
Questions from attitude appear throughout the 50-question multiple-choice section, and the wording changes between versions. Learn the rule rather than the sentence: the DVSA can ask the same point from the opposite direction, and a memorised answer falls over the moment the phrasing moves.
The pass mark is 43 out of 50, so seven wrong answers is your entire margin. If a whole category is shaky, run the topic practice below until you are getting every question right for the right reason, then go back to full mocks under the clock.
More attitude questions
- A blue flashing beacon is used by which vehicle?
- A green flashing beacon is fitted on what type of emergency vehicle?
- A long, heavily laden lorry is taking a long time to overtake you. What should you do?
- A person herding sheep has asked you to stop. What should you do?
- At a puffin crossing, which colour follows the green signal?
- At which type of crossing are cyclists permitted to ride across while pedestrians are crossing?