Driving Examination: Speed Management
As part of this examination tips blog, our first topic will be speed management.
As a driver, you must drive at a safe and legal speed. You will need to then adjust your speed depending on obstacles in your path, this could be people, road conditions including potholes, speed bumps and the weather.
At Autogear Driving School, and with our expert driving instructors in Epping, we extensively prepare you in speed management. As a truly local driving school servicing Sydney’s Lower North Shore for over 10 years, our knowledge of the roads is unparalleled. As part of your lesson structure and our proactive approach to speed management, we teach and then test you on a variety of speed management techniques, integral to passing your driving examination. We also observe your practical skills such as whether you have maintained sufficient space when stopping behind the car in-front of you, or if no car is present, how close you have stopped to the front of the marked-line at any set of lights. For those that are attempting their driving test at the Macquarie Centre RMS, our local knowledge of the North Ryde/Marsfield and surrounding areas, including Herring Road and Epping Road prove why Autogear Driving School in Epping is the premier driving school in Epping and Macquarie Park.
Another essential skill which we teach you, and is sometimes deceptively hard to master for novice drivers is the gradual reduction of your speed. As part of our on-road driver coaching, we teach our students how to manoeuvre and adjust their speeds according to obstacles on the road. These defensive-minded skills we teach, are assessable items during your driving exams and will be examined thoroughly by our instructors. Some areas where it is essential you consider reducing your speed includes when merging lanes, driving over speed bumps and navigating across the different speed-limits such as in school zones.
For any questions regarding speed management, the driving examination or if you would like to try a class with Autogear Driving School in Epping, get in touch with us today!