Introduction
At this stage of your training your:-
should be improving and getting more independent
Agreed lesson is covering :-
You will continue to develop with last lesson brief:-
Agree level of instruction
Intervention
Agree if any of the lesson is going to be a instructor-lead-lesson or a client-centred-lesson and if it is client-lead agree if the instructor has to intervein verbally, take control of the training vehicle by ether using the dual control or take the wheel the lesson plan may need to be changed until the fault is fixed.
F.I.S.H
Lesson aims and strategies
The aim of today’s lesson is to incorporate the Look, Asses, Decide and Act and Mirror, Signal, Position, Speed, Gear routine's when reversing in a straight line. Reversing in a straight line will help to develop your clutch control as you move the clutch from the biting point £1 thickness up and down from the biting point.
Risk responsibility objective's
On the way to the training location you and your instructor will agree the level off support from your instructor:-
This is important to ensure that the instructor and student understands who has the main responsibility on the control of the training vehicle on the set lesson plan.
Your level of instruction will be given by your instructor to a level to suit you from full talk through then reducing your support to either prompt or independent.
Please note from November 2017 your driving test changed the reversing around corners and the turn in the road exercises has been replace with parking up on the right hand side of the road and reverse back 2 too 3 car length and driving into a parking bay then reverse back out of it.
However you will still be taught learnt the reversing around corners and the turn in the road exercises manoeuvres at a lower structured level from your driving instructor.
Why just think if you are on your driving test and you go the wrong way (like a dead end road) and you was unable to turn your training vehicle around safely.....
Lesson brief
The straight line reversing exercise will be taught to you at a certain point in your training as all driving instructors alter lesson briefing to suit all students needs, however all lesson briefs are agreed
at the end of each lesson lesson, so this will give you the opportunity to read the relevant brief (gestalt).
Location.
Once you have got to the training location you will be advised to park up slightly wider (and parallel) from the curb.
Make sure you are parked somewhere safe, legal and convenient.
get a (puncher) flat tyre.
As and when a vehicle drives towards your back end of your training vehicle just press your footbrake to activate your brake lights telling them you have seen them and stopped. Ensure you do this when they are 1 too 2 lamp posts from you.
Use of seat belt
By law you are allowed to remove your seatbelt, however it’s not practical (unless you are exempt from wearing a seatbelt or you have a restriction from looking around and releasing the seat belt helps observations) as you could easily forget to put it back once you have finished your manoeuvrer and drive on without putting your seatbelt back on, or if you need to abandon your reverse manoeuvre and you had to go back to the starting position because a vehicle has come behind you and you are in the way.
Releasing your seatbelt can help, however if you shuffle around in your seat you can look through the rear window by looking over your left shoulder a lot easier.
Camber of the road
Most roads do have cambers however they should not be a problem with straight line reverse manoeuvre.
The camber is for drainage when it rains. The main manoeuvrer you will have a problem with is the turn in the road. Please visit the turn in the road brief for more information
The amount to steering
Hand position
Holding your steering wheel and correcting your road position by steering the correct way is crucial for development and success when your are reversing. One main reason hand position is important is once you are using all around observations if you are not holding the steering wheel correctly you move your steering wheel without even knowing about it and this will move the course of your training vehicle. The right hand holds 1 to 2 o' clock position and the left hand holds the 7 to 8 o' clock position.
Clock face
Before you start moving your steering wheel and your front drive wheels are facing forward. We call the the top of the steering wheel 12 o' Clock position and 6 o' Clock is at the bottom of the wheel.
Reference points (so accurate)
To help you we will help you with simple reference point on straight line reverse:-
1.When you are sat in the drivers seat by glancing in your rear view mirror you will find the
curb roughly in the middle of the two head restraints on the nearside off the vehicle (diagram below).
2. Glancing in the nearside door mirror you will see how far away the nearside of your vehicle
is from the curb.
3.You may have a small blind spot mirror that’s will also be very helpful when reversing.
When you start reversing backwards and your reference point in the rear window starts to move out onto the road your vehicle is moving out into the road and the same with your nearside door mirror, and if the reference points go towards the curb or pavement you are getting to close to the curb.
More information is given later on how to correct the fault.
Clutch control
All the set manoeuvres you will be advised to reverse at a very slow speed (some instructors may say a snails pace) this will allow you to ensure you have effective observations.
For best clutch control use slow clutch from the biting point and move your clutch a £1 thickness up and down from your biting point.
All round observations
While reversing you should be taking observations all around your training vehicle and give way to any vehicles approaching from the rear of your vehicle. Also any pedestrians walking behind your training vehicle
Below is the Dl25 marking sheet that you will be assed on on your driving test. This will give you some idea on what you will be assed on by your driving examiner.
You were marked on:
You needed to pull up on the right hand side of the road, and reverse for 2 car lengths. You should have remained reasonably close to the pavement, without touching it.
Some of the most common faults for this area include:
Your examiner may have explained the specific details of any faults you made.
How you can improve in this area
If you made faults in this area during your test, or if you want to improve in this area, you should:
If you need to rebook the test, spend time practising and improving this skill with your driving instructor or supervising driver. You could work on:
As you can see the main two reason you could fail when reversing is lack off control and lack off observations.
The main information you will get from your instructor is:-
Use of wheel
The biggest problem with reversing backwards is over steering or snaking this happens when you steer too much unnecessary. In the diagram below vehicle A is too far from the curb.
By turning the steering wheel the way you want the vehicle to go, we need to move closer towards the curb, you would turn the steering wheel to the left (an hour).
Amount to turn
Lets break the above diagram down.
The strategy on this lesson is to guidance you on how much movement you will need to steer if you need to steer closer or further from the curb. You only need to move the steering wheel only 1 hour the way you need to go.
Below is a step by step description on what will be taught.
A.
Your vehicle is to wide from the curb.
Move the steering wheel the way you want your training to go.
B.
Turn the steering wheel from 12 o'clock position to the 11 o'clock position (top of the steering wheel) and the 6 o’clock position rotates to the 5 o’clock position (Bottom of the steering wheel).
C.
Hold that steering at the 11 o'clock position until your vehicle gets a small (10 degree) angle. Once you have an the 10 degree angle strighten your steering wheel back to 12 o' clock reverse back wards ang get closer to the curb
Now then steering wheel is at 12 o'clock (top) and 6 o’clock (bottom) position, now reverse back wards untill your nearside back wheel get a drain width distanse from the curb.
D.
Once you are close enough to the curb turn the steering wheel to 1 o'clock, once you are parallel to the curb straighten your your steering wheel back till 12 o' clock position
E.
Once you are parallel to the curb straighten your steering wheel and reverse back until you are asked to stop.
Teaching & Learning Strategies
Like mentioned earlier every student is induvial and each and everyone of you will progress at different rates so driving will adapt their lesson plan to help you achieve your driving goals.
Rote learning (WikipediA)
Rote learning is a memorization technique based on repetition. The method rests on the premise that the recall of repeated material becomes faster the more one repeats it. Some of the alternatives to rote learning include meaningful learning, associative learning, spaced repetition and active learning.
At the end of your lesson
At the end of your lesson you will have a debrief with your instructor giving you the opportunity to reflect on your performance on your lesson then you can set up new goals for your next driving lesson.
This will also give you the opportunity to research any new topics that will be brought into on your next agreed lesson. So remember your instructor is there to HELP you, so on your driving lesson if you have any uncertainties or need anything rewording or recapping to make things any clearer, just ask.
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