Welcome to The Better Driving Guide
The Better Driving Guide is designed to enhance your life. it offers an easy to follow programme that can:
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Improve your driving skills
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Reduce your stress levels -
Save fuel
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Reduce fatigue
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Reduce car sickness amongst passengers
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Prepare you for your advanced driving tests
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Prepare student instructors for ADI part-Two
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And perhaps most importantly of all – enhance the safety of yourself, your family and all of those with whom you share the roads.
The Better Driving Guide
This master contents page links to each section of the SmartDriving Better Driving Guide. 
Each section also has it's own detailed contents listing.
The programme links to extensive resources in the SmartDriving Drivers area to help you gain a full depth of knowledge and expertise.
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If you are doing this course as a 'standalone' project we suggest that you work throughthe course sequentially, taking about one week to work through each section.
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If you are doing the course as part of your UK ADI training, ask your trainer to advise you about what to study and practice. There is additional material to supplement the course in the SmartDriving Members' area.
First thoughts...
A quick overview of the course aims and methods. More...
Section One
Section One considers the basics - a revision of the basic stuff that many people tale for granted. The starting point for becoming and expert driver is ensuring that you are building on a firm foundation but before you even start to drive, you need a little background understanding and information. More...
Section Two
Section Two introduces the skills of ensuring your car is safe, entering the car and driving away. It also introduces commentary driving. More...
Section Three
Section Three concentrates on 'smooth driving' with expert use of the controls. It also looks at emergency braking and develops your commentary skills with a simple exercise.More...
Section Four
Section Four considers the importance of using a driving routine and moves on to information to stay safe on hills and more commentary driving development. More...
Section Five
Section Five considers slow speed manoeuvres such as parking. It also adds a new twist to your commentary driving skills. More...
Section Six
Section Six concentrates on the importance of keeping a safe speed, space and the skills of reading the road. More...
Section Seven
Overtaking, motorway driving and the finishing touches to your commentary driving. More...
Click the forward arrow to move on to the First Thoughts brief introduction to the course...
