The Official DVSA Guide to Driving - the essential skills
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Learn essential driving skills
Whether you’re a learner, an experienced driver or a driving instructor, The Official DVSA Guide to Driving – the essential skills is packed full of advice that will help you stay safe on our roads.
This comprehensive guide is THE industry standard driving manual. Learn how to get the most enjoyment from your driving with the correct skills, attitude and behaviour.
Key benefits
- Pass your theory test - this book is a key source material for the car and driving instructor theory tests.
- Sharpen your driving skills - information on essential driving techniques, including overtaking safely, using limit points, defensive driving and manoeuvring
- For your driving life - hints and tips for a lifetime of safe driving, ideal for refreshing your knowledge before and after your test.
Key features
- Highway Code - fully updated to align with the updates to the Official Highway Code.
- In all conditions - expert advice on driving safely and confidently at night, in bad weather conditions, on motorways and through roadworks.
- Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) - These cover many technological features in motor vehicles and include cruise control, advanced emergency braking system/forward-collision warning, traffic sign recognition, driver-drowsiness detection, lane-departure warning/lane-keep assist amongst others.
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These reviews are from verified purchasers
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Has everything!!!
My driving instructor recommended this book to me and let me tell you it literally has everything a learner like me appreciated to read! Really helped me in my lessons and is amazing with diagrams and doesn't overload with useless info and sticks to the important bits!
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Everyone should have this book!
This is the bible driving instructors teach, always handy to have to brush up on techniques and safety
Personally I feel if everyone owned a copy of this, the roads wouldn’t be as dangerous as they are
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Perfect book
Was recommended for my driving licence theory test but it covers so much more.
Up to date and has many valuable features and information for any driver.
FAQs
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What’s Safe Driving for Life’s relationship with DVSA? | Safe Driving for Life is a collaboration between the Driver and Vehicles Standards Agency (DVSA) and The official publisher for the DVSA The Stationery Office (TSO). |
| Can I purchase large volumes of this book? | If you would like to buy a larger volume of books, please send an email with your contact information to our DVSA merchandising team, where they will be happy to pick up your request: dvsa.merchandising@williamslea.com |
| I would like to change or cancel my driving/theory test | Although we are the official publishers of the DVSA materials, we are unable to assist with queries regarding test amendments. Please contact the DVSA directly via phone: 0300 200 1122 or email: customerservices@dvsa.gov.uk / theorycustomerservices@dvsa.gov.uk and the DVSA team will be happy to assist you further. |
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