This question asked on the Highway Code exam receives 87% wrong answers. Can you answer correctly?
There are easy questions and those that are much less so. Of the 40 questions asked to candidates for the Highway Code exam, a few are dreaded and formidable. As a reminder, to pass the exam, essential to pass the driving license, the candidate must obtain at least 35 correct answers. The margin of error is fine, especially when a question slips into the questionnaire that gets 87.2% wrong answers! This is the rate noted by En Voiture Simone, the first approved online driving school in France. This question is not directly to do with driving, which may be why it misleads so many candidates.
If you took your driving test ten or more years ago, there is no chance of you having come across this difficult question. And for good reason, it refers to a new regulation that came into force in France in 2017. Does the Crit’Air sticker mean anything to you? You may have it on your car windshield. It is used to identify vehicles based on their polluting emissions. It is this which allows you to travel in certain large cities in France, particularly in low emission zones (ZFE). But do you know the criteria taken into account to obtain it? In other words, which elements of your car are retained when assigning a sticker, which are numbered from 0 to 5 (all in different colors) depending on whether your vehicle that pollutes little or a lot.
The question asked is the following: The Crit’Air category of my car depends:
- A. its registration number
- B. of its date of entry into circulation
- C. of its engine
- D. its CO₂ emissions
Tick, tock, tick, tock… Do you have the (correct) answer? Or rather the (correct) answers? You understand, there is a trap to mislead so many people. We end the suspense, the correct answers are B and C. Obtaining the Crit’Air sticker is done exclusively according to the year the vehicle was put into circulation and its engine (petrol, diesel, electric). …). As surprising as it may seem, carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions are not taken into account.
The amount of CO₂ emitted by a vehicle directly depends on the amount of fuel it consumes. The more fuel a vehicle burns to drive, the more carbon dioxide it releases. A draft government decree to integrate a threshold for carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere for obtaining the Crit’Air sticker has already been mentioned. But there has been no follow-up until now. This question therefore remains relevant and is likely to cause the loss of many candidates for the Highway Code exam in the future.