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Lesson 6

Anticipation and Reaction

Objective for Session 6:

During this session, your ADI should ensure that you:

  • Know how to scan the environment for potential hazards
  • Can identify and respond appropriately to potential hazards

Expected outcomes:

  • Show that you can use scanning techniques to identify and respond to hazards
  • Take into account potential hazards by choosing the correct speed and gear, keeping a safe distance, and braking correctly
  • Explain the potential effects of driving at night, in the rain, in fog, and in snow
  • Show that you can identify hazards and respond to them in good time

Minimum session coverage:

Your ADI should take you driving in a variety of road conditions, including:

  • Junctions
  • Streets with parked cars
  • Streets with substantial numbers of pedestrians
  • Roads with multiple warning signs
  • Roads with poor visibility such as bends with tree cover or hill brows

The session should cover potential hazards associated with:

  • Road junctions
  • Blind spots
  • Parked vehicles
  • Crossings
  • Roundabouts
  • Motorcyclists and cyclists
  • Road works
  • Pedestrians

If it's not possible to cover one or more of these areas while driving, your ADI should ask you questions about them, which you should be able to answer.

How to prepare for Session 7:

To achieve the expected outcomes from Session 7, you should have:

  • Completed Session 1 to Session 6

You should discuss your sessions with your ADI and based on their advice, you may also have completed some or all of Sessions 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8. This is because Sessions 2 to 8 can be taken in any order.

Practice is key. To feel confident about meeting the learning objectives, you should also have:

  • Read the expected outcomes of this session
  • Done enough practice with your ADI, Sponsor, or both
  • Done any relevant study
  • Practiced for at least three hours on how to scan the environment for potential hazards and respond appropriately

You should also have read the sections in the Rules of the Road that deal with correct reactions and anticipation, and sharing the road. You should have acted on any feedback your ADI gave you at the end of your last EDT session.