Driver Risk and Professional Practice

In this Part

1. 1 Say out loud who holds the risk before the car moves 4 min

   The dual controls are the easy part. Risk management is reading the road and the driver at once, and judging the exact moment to step in.

2. 2 A level-headed learner can still come apart when the passengers stop listening 5 min

   Callum is eighteen, sensible and level-headed. His risk sits far from the controls, where a driver decides which trips to make and who to be when nobody is watching.

3. 3 The day after the test, they start driving like themselves 5 min

   For as long as someone is learning, they drive to please the person in the passenger seat. The day that seat empties, they drive as themselves, and the question is who turns up.

4. 4 Pressure narrows attention, and the skills go with it 4 min

   Zac’s car control never failed. His nerve did. What pressure does to a learner’s skills, and the far horizon that decides whether they hold.

5. 5 Your lesson is your own driving examiner 5 min

   Your teaching needs a grade too, and the one you can count on is the one you give it. Three questions every lesson answers, and what Queensland does ask of a trainer.