The Official DVSA Guide to Better Driving
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Description
Does driving make you angry, anxious or stressed? Do you take risks when you’re at the wheel?
The bestselling The Official DVSA Guide to Better Driving by Doctor Lisa Dorn, Associate Professor of Driver Behaviour at Cranfield University, will help you to reduce your anxiety, boost your confidence and drive safely.
The Official DVSA Guide to Better Driving explores the effects of mood and attitude on driver behaviour. Discussions of key topics are supplemented by practical strategies designed to help drivers manage stress in common scenarios such as driving on motorways, driving with children in the car and approaching roundabouts.
The Official DVSA Guide to Better Driving will help you
- Stay safe: understand how your thoughts and feelings can affect your behaviour behind the wheel
- Boost your confidence: advice on coping with everyday situations such as roundabouts, motorways, junctions and bad weather
- Enjoy your driving: learn how to evaluate your performance and become a better driver
- Keep legal: up-to-date information on speed limits, drink and drug driving, mobile phones and more
Everyone will benefit from the advice in this book. It is suitable for drivers of all abilities, from learner car drivers and their driving instructors to professional drivers of vans, large goods vehicles, buses and coaches.
Significant updates to the text include an in-depth look at advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and driver safety, the hierarchy of road users, and anxiety management for learner drivers.
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Reviews
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Informative and interesting
Very interesting content addressing the mental and phycological aspects involved in becoming a better driver.
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Well worth a read
A very interesting book, that focussing on drivers attitudes rather than pure driving skills. Well worth a read if only to make more sense of how others may be behaving on the roads, and why.
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Excellent driving book!
A very good book for those learning and for driver's wishing to advance their knowledge about being a safe driver. Well written and easy to follow.
Highly recommended!
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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