Examiners are moving away from rehearsed routines and towards real-world skill — rewarding smooth, eco-friendly driving and genuine hazard awareness over memorised habits. Here’s what the shift means for learners and instructors alike, and how to adapt lesson plans and mock tests accordingly.
A new MoneySuperMarket survey found 86% of UK drivers missed a pedestrian in a simple observation test — despite most feeling confident in their awareness on the road. Here’s what the findings mean for learner drivers, and exactly what to practise to build genuinely sharp observation skills from day one.
Being tailgated as a learner driver is stressful and intimidating — but it’s also illegal. Learn how to stay calm, drive safely, and handle tailgating with confidence.
A recent survey commissioned by Motorpoint revealed a startling reality about UK roads: up to half of motorists are not confident they could read a vehicle registration plate from 20 metres away. That distance isn’t just an arbitrary number; it is the legal minimum standard for driving. For a learner driver preparing to take to the road independently, your vision is your very first line of defence.
You have eight days to sort it out. After 9 June 2026, the rules change in ways that will leave thousands of learner drivers geographically marooned, unable to move their booking to the centre they actually want.
Earlier this year, the Department for Transport launched its 2026 Road Safety Strategy — a wide-ranging package of measures aimed at reducing casualties and making Britain’s roads safer. One of the centrepieces of that strategy is a massive, government-backed expansion of roadside drug testing.
New CPR and AED questions are now live in the DVSA theory test — here’s everything learner drivers in the Chilterns need to know Somewhere on a road near you, a driver will collapse at the wheel. A cyclist will be struck at a junction. A pedestrian will suffer a cardiac arrest on the pavement. And statistically, the person closest…
Road safety campaigns come and go, but every so often a pair of them lands that genuinely makes you stop and think. This month, Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins launched two new campaigns — Priority List and Control
Published on 17 March 2026, the annual ALARM report (Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance survey) has laid bare the catastrophic state of local roads in England and Wales, and the numbers make for grim reading.
Developed in the United States by Harold Smith and adopted widely across professional and advanced driving communities in the UK and beyond, the SMITH System isn’t a gimmick or a checklist. It’s a coherent philosophy of how to process the road around you