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I compiled 40,000+ driving test questions for 11 countries. What do you think?

38 pointsby mrbrianhollandabout 12 years ago

14 comments

swatkatabout 12 years ago
Clicking on menus (about us, car insurance etc.) throws this error:<p><pre><code> Fatal error: Call to a member function FetchRow() on a non-object in /hermes/bosweb26a/b2005/ipg.monologixcom/drivingtests101/page_content.php on line 8 Fatal error: Call to a member function FetchRow() on a non-object in /hermes/bosweb26a/b2005/ipg.monologixcom/drivingtests101/car_insurance.php on line 12 </code></pre> Also, drop-down list is empty! Chromium on Windows 7.
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wmclaffertyabout 12 years ago
In addition to the errors other people are experiencing:<p>- You're not minifying your CSS or JS.<p>- You're loading your JS at the top of the document, which is slow (<a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/high-performance-sites-rule-6-move-scripts-bottom-7200.html" rel="nofollow">http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/high-performance-sites-...</a>)<p>- Response times for just loading the main page are over a second for me.<p>- The second panel of your carousel has items that don't fit on one line and break your design.<p>- 'Select your country' doesn't work.<p>- Even without interacting with anything on the site, I'm see this error appended to the DOM: "&#60;b&#62;Fatal error&#60;/b&#62;: Call to a member function FetchRow() on a non-object in &#60;b&#62;/hermes/bosweb26a/b2005/ipg.monologixcom/drivingtests101/includes/banner_slider.php&#60;/b&#62; on line &#60;b&#62;77&#60;/b&#62;&#60;br /&#62;"<p>- Actually, as I click around more, pretty much the whole site is broken...<p>Good idea, but the site needs a lot more testing (and some design work) before it's useable.
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beefsackabout 12 years ago
Looks fantastic, good work!<p>One state is missing from Australia: Australian Capital Territory, which has it's own test and rules. Having that would be of particular use to a lot of people I know :)
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joe5150about 12 years ago
Assuming the declaration is true, great job! There's a "but", though:<p>I get a (rather ugly) 404 error if I click on my state without selecting a country first. It wasn't obvious to me that I had to select United States in the first dropdown since the second dropdown already had the fifty states loaded it. You should disable the second dropdown until a country is selected, or better yet don't even show it until the user selects from the first one.
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riobardabout 12 years ago
My biggest worry is that people may rely too much on this instead of, you know, RTFM, by which they'll learn a lot of useful stuff, especially those concerning safety.
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christiangencoabout 12 years ago
Protip for young drivers in the US: on the electronic driving test, you can skip questions you don't know. The system will keep asking you questions until you've <i>answered</i> a certain number of questions (I think it's around 20). If you don't know the answer, skip the question and it won't count against you.<p>This is how I got 100% correct after studying for an hour.
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vxNsrabout 12 years ago
While it seems like a great idea, you are gonna need to get more servers if you want to play with the big boys, I can't seem to get anywhere, clicking any link throws an error and the drop down menu is empty. Also I can see elements appear on the page as I download them... I haven't experienced that since 2004.<p>Still +1 for idea/effort
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ewbuoiabout 12 years ago
I got this error instead of question #3 for the Hawaii Motorcycle test:<p>Fatal error: Call to a member function numRows() on a non-object in /hermes/bosweb26a/b2005/ipg.monologixcom/drivingtests101/state.php on line 479
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rmp2150about 12 years ago
How did you go about compiling 40,000 driving test questions?
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captbaritoneabout 12 years ago
Selected my state without selecting a country and I got a 404. The states dropdown was populated for US, so I assumed I could skip selecting my country.
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scrapcodeabout 12 years ago
"Select you Country" doesn't work at all. Gives me nothing. Design looks like the 'era after geocities' when the ability to create gradients was first invented...<p>I'm really not trying to bash you. Initiative is always good, but who decides this is first page material? It has 10 pts and 17 comments... I've been noticing lately that there is a huge amount of trash coming into HN rather than what I am used to being over-the-top, higher-quality-than-usual news and/or products.
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thefarmabout 12 years ago
Apps are very useful for on the go studying. Great resource, im glad you posted it! Will pass this on to my friends kid.
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mrbrianhollandabout 12 years ago
If you have any questions you would like added, please email info@drivingtests101.com.<p>Thanks!
rorrr2about 12 years ago
When doing a practice test, your app does a crazy number of requests to the server for each question.<p>Why not load all questions/answers at the same time? That would improve the speed tremendously and would reduce the load on your servers.
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