Driver Knowledge Tests

What are the ways you can navigate?

Once you start driving you’ll find yourself in places you don’t recognise and you will need to navigate your way safely. If you grew up in the country, like I did, you’ll know there’s a lack of street signs and

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How can a new driver drive more safely?

Congratulations. You’ve spent a lot of your own personal time learning how to drive so that you can achieve your goal of a full licence. Now you’ve got it, you still need to get more experience, but hopefully without having

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Avoiding accidents by reading other drivers’ intentions

We can’t be looking in multiple directions at the same time so we spend the majority of our driving making assumptions about where other vehicles are going to be and what they are going to do. Sometimes, though, these assumptions

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Safe driving on motorways

In Australia you will encounter speed limits of 100kph or 110kph on motorways. Motorways are designed to allow a large volume of traffic to move at speed. In general they are safer than two-way roads because there’s less likelihood of

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Driving safely in rough conditions

Australia has some of the most diverse and punishing landscapes in the world, particularly in the outback. Searing heat, high humidity, corrugated roads, potholes, cattle grids, large road kill and torrential rain can occur within 100km on the same road!

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Tips for Keeping Under the Speed Limit

It wasn’t that long ago that a human’s maximum speed was how fast he could run. Then he tamed horses, then the wind in sailboats and then horsepower in engines. Now, we can travel at speeds well in excess of

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How to choose a driving instructor

When you first start driving you can choose to be supervised by a relative or friend, as long as they have an Australian unrestricted Class C driver’s licence or higher. However, everyone develops bad driving habits over time and not

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