The Official DSA Guide to Driving - the essential skills

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Driving Standards Agency (DSA)

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This must-have driving manual has long been recognised as an essential reference guide for every motorist and is packed full of driving advice for learners, experienced motorists and instructors.

Many of the deaths and injuries that occur on UK roads every day might be prevented if we improve standards of driving and our driving technique. This comprehensive guide will provide you with everything you need to know to help you learn and maintain safe driving skills and stay safe on the road.

This latest edition has been updated to take account of changes in legislation, roads, vehicles, driving techniques and procedures, and also contains new content to further expand on the latest edition of The Official Highway Code.

'The Official DSA Guide to Driving - the essential skills', together with 'The Official Highway Code' and 'Know Your Traffic Signs', are the books from which the learner car driver and driving instructor theory test questions are taken; the official source materials. It is strongly recommended that you study from these source materials, as well as products containing the theory test questions themselves, to prepare fully for your tests.

Key Features:

• Essential driving techniques, including manoeuvring and defensive driving.

• Driving on motorways, driving at night and in all-weather conditions including fog, snow and ice.

• What to do in an accident or emergency.

• Eco-driving and the environment.

• Vehicle maintenance and security.

• Towing a trailer.

• European driving.

• Also includes a chapter devoted to taxi drivers.

• Supersedes ISBN 9780115526411.

Written by the Driving Standards Agency, the people who set the driving tests. The best advice you can get.

Industry reviews:

''The layout of the book is effectively simple, the organisation logical, and the text as lucid as ever." (Driving Instructor Magazine, November 2007)

"It remains the most reliable source of reference for all drivers, learners, qualified or professional. Well illustrated and written in a clear and simple style, this is an ideal in-car reference book for ADIs and driver trainers. If you are an ADI and don't have a copy - shame on you." (ADI News Magazine, January 2008)

"An accepted bible of driving technique to its faithful apostles." (Driving Magazine, April 2008)

Related resources:

Download the Contents and Introduction pages of this book (PDF, 669 KB - opens new window)

Watch 'The Highway Code: for life, not just for learners' video on YouTube! (opens new window)