Once considered a right of passage, the percentage of people getting a driving licence has dropped gradually over the years. The reasons are: Difficulty: It’s now much more difficult and time-consuming with our graduated driver licence system to get right through…
We all like a deal, right? Cheap driving lessons sound appealing but are they the best value? A qualified driving instructor undergoes training so that they not only know the road rules, how to drive defensively and how to anticipate…
Emergency vehicles – police, fire, ambulance, marine rescue and others – use a type of marking called a Sillitoe Tartan. This chequered pattern was introduced in 1961 and gradually adopted nationwide through the 1970s. It is applied in a stripe…
What is the swept path? Long vehicles have to move out wider to set the vehicle up for a turn because their rear wheels follow a path that forms a tighter circle than the front wheels. The area between the curve…
If you are in a school zone parking penalties are particularly onerous and result in steep fines and demerit points during school hours. The rules are there to improve the safety of child pedestrians and to reduce traffic congestion around…
Ramp metering is when traffic lights are used on motorway on-ramps to restrict the number and timing of vehicles allowed to enter the motorway. Traffic is held back in order to break up platoons of vehicles which make it difficult…
A police officer can stop you for a random roadside inspection if you are driving a car or motorbike. There are vehicle standards in Australia which all vehicles must comply with which define a set of rules which ensures that vehicles operating…
