Driving Examination: Positioning
As part of this examination tips blog, our next topic will be road positioning, which will be broken up into a few sections.
Section 1; Road positioning refers to how you maintain a safe position on the road. This includes when you do manoeuvers, drive in-betweens the lanes and also how you position yourself when you park.
At Autogear Driving School Epping and Autogear Driving School Macquarie Park – we teach you the essential road positioning rules including buffering; which simply means how much space you keep in-between your vehicle and obstacles on the road. These could be oncoming vehicles, cars parked on the side of the road, and how you tackle edge lines and lane markings on the road. Some other areas you need to be mindful of include avoiding high-risk driving. To exemplify one such situation, we have leveraged the below image (courtesy of nsw.gov.au – A guide to the Driving Test, page 15). In the below image, you should avoid driving in the designated ‘high-risk area’ unless absolutely necessary as you are in the blind-spot of the driver in the truck.
At Autogear Driving School – our aim is to prepare you for the real world.
Our approach to helping you become a better driver is by not only teaching you the necessary driving skills, but also encouraging you to become a defensive-minded driver. By conducting most of our lessons along the busy Epping road, and the surrounding streets of Epping, North Ryde, Marsfield, Macquarie Park and Macquarie university, not only are our expert Driving instructors in Macquarie Park familiarising you on streets close to Services NSW in North Ryde and Chatswood, but also helping you become a skilled, defensive minded driver.
Thanks for reading this blog, if you have any questions about road positioning or would like to experience why Autogear is recognised and has been reviewed as one of the best Driving Schools in Sydney and consistently recognised as the premier Driving School in Macquarie Park, get in touch today!