Roadcraft chapter notes Exam 2025
Questions and Answers
1. Becoming a better driver - ANSWER✔✔-1. Becoming a better driver
1.1. A safe and competent driver - ANSWER✔✔-Have a critical and honest self-
awareness and understanding of your personal characteristics, attitudes and behaviour,
which are necessary for safe driving.
1.2. Take action - ANSWER✔✔-Take action to keep identified risks to a minimum.
1.3. Know your limitations - ANSWER✔✔-Have awareness of your own limitations and
those of the vehicle and the road.
1.4. Risk awareness - ANSWER✔✔-Be aware of the risks inherent in particular road and
traffic situations.
1.5. Paying attention - ANSWER✔✔-Make full use of your powers of observation and
concentration.
1.6. Direction, speed, conditions - ANSWER✔✔-Continuously match the vehicle's
direction and speed to the changing conditions.
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,1.7. Vehicle controls - ANSWER✔✔-Know the capabilities of your vehicle and its
controls.
1.8. Competence - ANSWER✔✔-Have the knowledge, skills and understanding to
assess your driving ability.
1.9. Situational awareness - ANSWER✔✔-Gather, interpret and use information to
make sense of what is going on around you and what is likely to happen next.
1.10. Common collision causes - ANSWER✔✔-Know what makes you vulnerable.
2. The system of car control - ANSWER✔✔-2. The system of car control
2.1. The need for a system of car control - ANSWER✔✔-Use a system of car control. This
aims to prevent collisions by providing a systematic approach to hazards. It uses a
decision-making process that enables you to efficiently assess and act on information
that is continuously changing as you drive.
2.2. What is the system of car control? - ANSWER✔✔-Approach and negotiate hazards
in a way that is methodical, safe and leaves nothing to chance, using careful
observation, early anticipation and planning, and a systematic use of the controls to
maintain your vehicle's stability in all situations. It increases your safety in a constantly
changing driving environment by giving you time to react to hazards.
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, 2.3. How the system works - ANSWER✔✔-The system of car control consists of
processing information and four phases - position, speed, gear and acceleration. Each
phase develops out of the one before.
2.4. Importance of information - ANSWER✔✔-Take, use and give information to plan
your driving - remember TUG.
2.5. The system of car control - ANSWER✔✔-Use information to plan how to deal with
the hazards you identify and use the system to decide on your next action.
2.6. Use the system flexibly - ANSWER✔✔-Adapt the system to circumstances as they
arise.
2.7. Applying the system - ANSWER✔✔-Do you take, use and give information
throughout all phases? If not, what can you do to improve?
2.8. Car control when turning - ANSWER✔✔-Know how to apply the system of car
control when making right and left-hand turns.
2.9. Car control at roundabouts - ANSWER✔✔-Know how to apply the system of car
control when negotiating roundabouts.
2.10. Braking and gear changing - ANSWER✔✔-Remember that individual phases of
the system of car control are almost always applied separately. The principle is that
brakes are to slow, gears are to go.
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Questions and Answers
1. Becoming a better driver - ANSWER✔✔-1. Becoming a better driver
1.1. A safe and competent driver - ANSWER✔✔-Have a critical and honest self-
awareness and understanding of your personal characteristics, attitudes and behaviour,
which are necessary for safe driving.
1.2. Take action - ANSWER✔✔-Take action to keep identified risks to a minimum.
1.3. Know your limitations - ANSWER✔✔-Have awareness of your own limitations and
those of the vehicle and the road.
1.4. Risk awareness - ANSWER✔✔-Be aware of the risks inherent in particular road and
traffic situations.
1.5. Paying attention - ANSWER✔✔-Make full use of your powers of observation and
concentration.
1.6. Direction, speed, conditions - ANSWER✔✔-Continuously match the vehicle's
direction and speed to the changing conditions.
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,1.7. Vehicle controls - ANSWER✔✔-Know the capabilities of your vehicle and its
controls.
1.8. Competence - ANSWER✔✔-Have the knowledge, skills and understanding to
assess your driving ability.
1.9. Situational awareness - ANSWER✔✔-Gather, interpret and use information to
make sense of what is going on around you and what is likely to happen next.
1.10. Common collision causes - ANSWER✔✔-Know what makes you vulnerable.
2. The system of car control - ANSWER✔✔-2. The system of car control
2.1. The need for a system of car control - ANSWER✔✔-Use a system of car control. This
aims to prevent collisions by providing a systematic approach to hazards. It uses a
decision-making process that enables you to efficiently assess and act on information
that is continuously changing as you drive.
2.2. What is the system of car control? - ANSWER✔✔-Approach and negotiate hazards
in a way that is methodical, safe and leaves nothing to chance, using careful
observation, early anticipation and planning, and a systematic use of the controls to
maintain your vehicle's stability in all situations. It increases your safety in a constantly
changing driving environment by giving you time to react to hazards.
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, 2.3. How the system works - ANSWER✔✔-The system of car control consists of
processing information and four phases - position, speed, gear and acceleration. Each
phase develops out of the one before.
2.4. Importance of information - ANSWER✔✔-Take, use and give information to plan
your driving - remember TUG.
2.5. The system of car control - ANSWER✔✔-Use information to plan how to deal with
the hazards you identify and use the system to decide on your next action.
2.6. Use the system flexibly - ANSWER✔✔-Adapt the system to circumstances as they
arise.
2.7. Applying the system - ANSWER✔✔-Do you take, use and give information
throughout all phases? If not, what can you do to improve?
2.8. Car control when turning - ANSWER✔✔-Know how to apply the system of car
control when making right and left-hand turns.
2.9. Car control at roundabouts - ANSWER✔✔-Know how to apply the system of car
control when negotiating roundabouts.
2.10. Braking and gear changing - ANSWER✔✔-Remember that individual phases of
the system of car control are almost always applied separately. The principle is that
brakes are to slow, gears are to go.
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