Night Driving
Bristol has every type of road on it's doorstep, so you experience motorway, dual carriageway, country roads and city driving in both light and dark conditions within a one hour lesson.
Vehicle lighting & use
- Importance of headlights - clean, working correctly, adjusted and to suit the conditions
- Know when to use which lights and why
- Legal aspects of fog lights
- Avoidance of dazzling other road users - behind and ahead
- Awareness and half-light and the trasition effect at dusk and dawn
Speed & stopping distances
- Able to pull up within sight range
- Adjusted to suit road, weather and visibility
Visibility - Seeing & reacting safely
- Safety checks - windscreens and windows - clean lights and reflectors front and rear
- Awareness and correct reaction to pedestrians - without and with reflective clothing
- Cyclists - with and without lights
- Intelligent prediction - pubs and clubs
- Difference between lit and unlit roads
- Defensive driving due to dazzle effect
- Wet roads - surface glare
Parking
- Safe
- Legal
- Convenient
- Lighting rules
- On and off road
