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August 2010 ADi and PDi DSA News:
- Driving Standards Agency
- V5 Registration & Motorway Instruction
- DSA Gets Digital
DSA News
In order to focus more on more road safety critical areas we have made changes on our approach to testing set exercises (manoeuvres). Whilst learning to manoeuvre is important, it is not a high risk area. Currently two out of three reversing manoeuvres are tested but from 4th October, to coincide with the introduction of Independent Driving, car test candidates (category B) will only have to complete one reversing manoeuvre. The reversing manoeuvre, as currently, will be selected at random by the examiner from: turning in the road, reversing around a corner, and reverse parking (either on the road, or into a bay).
EU regulations state that every driving test should contain a minimum of two manoeuvres, one of which must include reverse gear (as cited above). The other can be a controlled (but not necessarily an emergency) stop.
Therefore, for practical purposes we have elected a controlled stop as completed when a candidate pulls up behind a stationary car in readiness to complete the angle start (moving away at an angle). An emergency stop exercise will continue to be conducted on one in three tests.
Manoeuvres in all other categories of tests will not be changed.
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