Moving off and stopping: Drive out & Lesson goals

Moving off and Stopping goals

Your goal:

• To enable your customer to move off and stop safely under full control and with appropriate observation checks.

Customer's goals:

To understand the need for and demonstrate appropriate actions required to move off and stop including the ability to:

Moving off:

• Start the engine safely
  

• Select first gear.
  

• Set the gas.
  

• Find the clutch biting point.

• Make effective observation before moving off (including blind spots)
  

• Signal where necessary and correctly before moving off
  

• Release the handbrake
  

• Co-ordinate the gas pedal and clutch when moving from a standstill
  

• Steer to a safety line

Stopping:

• Stop smoothly without pitching forward
  

• Co-ordinate use of footbrake and clutch when stopping
  

• Stop smoothly without pitching forward on a downhill gradient*

• Stop smoothly at a pre-determined spot without use of the footbrake on an uphill gradient*
  

• Secure the car after stopping when appropriate (handbrake/neutral)
  

• Recognise a safe and legal position to stop
  

• Stop the car parallel to the kerb
  

• When required, give an appropriate signal before stopping

*While these are basic requirements, it might not be appropriate to cover them on the first lesson.

Note that these are generic lesson goals. Individual learners will have specific personal goals and other goals related to different aspects of learning but still relevant to the lesson. The lesson goals shown here are to help you to break down the process and skill into it's component parts.

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