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UNIT 1: Driving Skills and Risk
Demonstrate safe car controls:
• Vehicle safety checks, car controls and equipment
• Vehicle controls and instruments and the dangers of ignoring them
• Safety routines, road signs and markings whilst integrating with other road users safely
Explain the key factors in risk management and crash causation:
• Discuss novice driver crash involvement
• Eye scanning methodology
UNIT 2: Safe Interaction with Other Road Users
Manage risk in driving:
• Impairments and driver overload
• Identify impairments which affect risk management
• Helping those involved in an accident or crash
Understand the relationship between effective journey planning and carrying out safe manoeuvres:
• Manoeuvres and journey planning
UNIT 3: Environmental Driving
Understand the effect driving has on the environment:
• The importance of vehicle maintenance in reducing environmental impact
• Sustainable forms of transport
Demonstrate an ability to drive in a fuel efficient manner:
• Drive proactively and economically whilst searching for and dealing with potential hazards
UNIT 4: Driving Responsibilities
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding that human factors will impact on the driving task on every single journey:
• Impairments that have an adverse effect on driver behaviour
• Drive to an unprompted level
• Managing peer pressure
• Dealing with emergency vehicles safely
Know the responsibilities of full licence acquisition and vehicle ownership:
• List the responsibilities of owning a car
UNIT 5: Safe Driving Behaviour (post-test module)
Drive independently in a variety of road, weather and traffic conditions:
• Impacts of weather conditions on driving style and safety margins
• Drive safely at night, on rural roads and on motorways
• Plan and carry out an economical route
Self-evaluate, identifying how behaviour might increase the risk of being involved in a crash:
• Continued self-assessment and evaluation
• Journey planning and alternatives to driving at busy times
• Issues that make you a statistical risk
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