Karen Bransgrove explores the importance of attitudes and behaviours in driver testing, and how Diamond Advanced Motorists is protecting passengers, staff, and the wider community by taking a zero-tolerance approach to abusive behaviour.
The DIA has teamed up with RoadSafe to launch a one-stop website that offers simple-to-follow resources highlighting the different types of driver-assistance technology on vehicles. ADAS – Advanced Driver Assistance Systems – are developed to automate, adapt, and enhance vehicle technology for safety and better driving. ADAS was introduced to vehicles back in the 1970s …
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The Highway Code was first introduced and published in 1931, and there have been significant changes to the roads, cars, and drivers since then. At the time of initial release, there were only 3.1 million cars on the road throughout the UK. Since then, we’ve only seen more cars join the road and at the …
Driving instructors and their pupils are leading the way with the switch to electric vehicles, but infrastructure challenges could hamper progress, warns the AA Driving School. In the first year since electric vehicles have been available to its franchised driving instructors, around 49,000 hours of lessons have been given in EVs to around 3,300 pupils …
DIA’s Head of Training and Development Kevin Martin asks when is a driving instructor a professional driving instructor in this training.
A driving instructor has described how simple it is to be misled by a typical road sign that most people “never know.” The creator of Spot On Driving School, Cheshire-native Annie Winterburn, has over 825,000 followers on her TikTok account Theory Test Practice. The social media celebrity gained fame when she focused on a specific …
Sir Lewis Hamilton could have a successful second career as a driving instructor after topping a poll as the drivers’ choice of teacher. Racing legend, Hamilton, has won a joint-record seven World Drivers’ Championship titles, the same as Michael Schumacher, and holds the record for the most F1 wins. The F1 racing driver led the …
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Updated to include recent changes The new printed version of The Highway Code is available in shops and online. You can also buy the new printed version from the DIA at – https://www.driving.org/product/the-official-highway-code/ The new print version includes the recent changes to the Highway Code including: self-driving vehicles hand-held mobile rules change changes to sentencing for driving …
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The DVSA is continuing their driving examiner recruitment campaign to recruit additional examiners in local test centres across the UK to help meet the current demand for driving tests. The need for more examiners To date, the DVSA has managed to recruit more than 300 additional examiners. However, they still have many roles to fill across …
