“We’ve got another hazard perception myth here, this is from Vicky. Thanks Vicki, this is what Vicky says.
“I clicked too early.” Now, this implies that they’ve spotted the hazard early or too early, not quite sure. The situation is probably something like this. You’re driving along and ahead of you, you see a cyclist, doing nothing untoward, just riding along. That’s just a potential hazard. So, click nice and early for that, you won’t get any points.
There’s nothing happening apart from the cyclist is just riding along, or you might see a pedestrian at the side of the road, walking along the path. Again, just walking on the path but potentially they might do something. So, click on the pedestrian as a potential hazard.
A few moments later, the things change The situation changes. The cyclist now turns the head round or maybe signals. This is now a developing hazard. The cyclist is probably going to move. You’re going to have to take some action.
It’s now a developing hazard, so you now need an extra couple of clicks because it’s a developing hazard.
Fro the pedestrian, it could be that the pedestrian now moves towards the curb to cross the road. This is now a developing hazard. You’re going to have to take some more action because of the pedestrian moving towards the road. The pedestrian is now a developing hazard. So you need to get extra clicks in nice and quickly. So those are when you get the points for when you’re clicking as a developing hazard, even if you’ve already clicked a moment ago for that cyclist, so for that pedestrian as soon as you see the hazard becomign a developing hazard, always get the extra two clicks in.”
