Standard Driving Course

Question 1

How should you prevent red mist?

Answer 1

Concentrate on driving and the task in hand.
Don’t get into conflict on the roads.
Don’t use aggressive language to describe others.
Talk yourself through hazards to regain your focus on the driving.

Question 2

What is the legal tread depth for a car?

Answer 2

1.6mm Public and 3mm for Police

Question 3

The system of car control is a way of?

Answer 3

Approaching and negotiating a hazard that is safe and leaves nothing to chance

Question 4

What does peripheral vision give you?

Answer 4

Gives a sense of speed and position of the road.
Registers movement of other road users.
Acts as a cue for central vision, warning of areas to examine more closely.

Question 5

When in slippery conditions it is advisable to use?

Answer 5

Higher gears

Question 6

What is IPSGA

Answer 6

Information, Position, Speed, Gear, Acceleration

Question 7

The same patch of tyre contact with road surface is about the same surface as a?

Answer 7

Hand.

Question 8

To maintain steering control and stability on bends, you should?

Answer 8

Avoid Harsh Breaking and steering in bends.

Question 9

What should you do to avoid being dazzled by oncoming vehicles at night?

Answer 9

Look at the nearside of the road (The Kerb)

Question 10

What order for reading double road signs is correct?

Answer 10

Top to bottom

Question 11

At 70 mph you travel?

Answer 11

31 metres per second.

Question 12

The purpose of ‘the plan’ is to?

Answer 12

The correct position in the correct gear at all the correct time to negotiate hazards safely