SA motorcycle test being seen practice questions

Question 1

Why do riders use their headlight in daylight?

• To see the road better in bright sun
• To give drivers a bright point that makes a narrow motorcycle easier to notice and judgeCorrect answer
• Because the battery needs the load
• It has no effect during the day

Drivers scanning a gap are looking for the bulk of a car. A headlight gives them something bright and fixed to spot and to judge closing speed against.

Rule cited: The Rider's Handbook (South Australia), topic: being seen

Question 2

What is a simple check that a truck or bus driver can see you?

• If you can see the driver's mirror clearly, you are probably visible in itCorrect answer
• If you can hear the truck's engine, you are visible
• If your headlight is on, you are always visible
• If you are within two metres of the vehicle

Mirrors work both ways. Large vehicles have long blind areas behind and beside them, so if the mirror is out of your sight, you are out of the driver's.

Rule cited: The Rider's Handbook (South Australia), topic: being seen

Question 3

You realise you have been riding alongside a car's rear doors for some time. What should you do?

• Stay there so the driver gets used to you
• Change your speed so you move clearly ahead of or behind the car, out of the blind spotCorrect answer
• Move closer to the car
• Sound the horn and stay in position

That is the one place a mirror check will not show you. If the driver decides to change lanes you have nowhere to go, so pass through the area rather than sit in it.

Rule cited: The Rider's Handbook (South Australia), topic: being seen

Question 4

You are riding into a low sun in the late afternoon. What should you expect from other drivers?

• They can see you clearly because the sun is behind you from their view
• Drivers facing the sun may be dazzled and not see you at all, so allow much more spaceCorrect answer
• They will slow down automatically
• Sun glare has no effect on drivers

Low sun washes out a narrow motorcycle completely. Take extra care at intersections, keep your speed down and assume any driver looking towards the sun has not seen you.

Rule cited: The Rider's Handbook (South Australia), topic: being seen

Question 5

Which crash type most often involves a car and a motorcycle at an intersection?

• A car reversing into a rider
• A vehicle turning right across the path of an oncoming motorcycleCorrect answer
• A rider running into the back of a car
• Two motorcycles colliding

Drivers look for a car sized gap and misjudge how quickly a motorcycle is arriving. Approach intersections ready to slow, cover the brakes and watch the front wheels of any waiting vehicle.

Rule cited: The Rider's Handbook (South Australia), topic: intersections