Drivers View of the Road

i'd pass it too

As far as I'm aware the drivers view of the road has always been assessed from the drivers seat. Seems one of the more sensible things around. Where else would you be assessing it from? The clue is in the question.

Yep, that was a few years back. And it was silly so we (the original VTS council members) got them to change it because as testers we are assessing the drivers view of the road.

I'd still P & A it. Did you fail it @daveg?

At the moment I have not found VOSAs information about opague edging wih regards to the drivers view of the road, so what I am about to write is my own ideas on what I think VOSA during either a previous discussion in Matters of Testing, or a DVD might have said, i.e. something along the lines of;

Whilst sat in the drivers seat, examine the swept area of the windscreen including zone A, where opague edging meets the swept area, zone A examine the area where the wiper blades sweep. If the wiper blades appear to sweep over the opague edging and cannot be readily seen, pass and advise, but if the wiper blades can be seen through the opague edging and they are more than 10 and 40mm respectively, then a sticker or other obstruction is within zone A and the swept area and meets the fail criteria.

However my own personal view is that I am examining the swept area and zone A for my field of view of the road ahead, and to the left, i.e. swept area, so to me personnally anything above my line of view, (provided I am not a midget in comparison to the area of the screen and zone A),i.e. the opague edging would be an unjustified fail, also any damage or opague edging at the lower screen in line with the bonnet, irrespective of size would also be a unjustified fail, but VOSA do say additional opague edging is subject to reason for rejection 1.

I think they are operating both sides of the coin here VOSA, because opague edging black in colour will not allow the NT to assess the length of the wiper blades through the swept area or zone A, so would be a pass and advise, yet clear opague would allow the NT to see the length of the blades, but again has no bearing on the field of view, so although some in VOSA might advise it meets the fail criteria, I believe VOSA are wrong in this respect, if that is what they choose to believe.

Daveg

If only everything was clear cut then there would be no confusion

Opaque also means;

not transparent but allowing light to pass through

The example I was given was "No Saz & Dave stickers" across the screen.

That may be classed as a sun strip?

The way I see it is if the sunstrip was a solid colour and "unseeable" through it in the sept area it's a fail otherwise if you can see through it you can in this pic it's a pass or at worst P&A