Learning to Drive..Are Instructors a Waste of Space?

Driving Lessons in Ireland

What to expect from a Driving School?

We will examine what the reasons are for taking Driving Lessons and to get it straight right from the off…

Driving Lessons are necessary because quite simply you cannot teach yourself the necessary skills. It is something you learn under controlled conditions with a Professional Instructor in a suitably prepared and meticulously maintained vehicle.

The Driving Test is not the main reason for taking Driving Lessons! So if not what are the reasons then??

1. Safety and freedom from Accidents.
2. Confidence in the face of Difficulty.
3. Reaching a Suitable standard which you will use as a foundation for your Driving Test Preparation.
4. Ability to identify faults in your car through a thorough knowledge of your Instruments.
5. To know exactly what to do in the event of a fault developing.
6. Learn what is required from the Examiner on a Driving Test.
7. Learn advanced techniques that will put you far ahead of the average Learner Driver and most other Drivers on the road.
8. Give you the confidence to prepare methodically for your first attempt at the Driving Test.
9. To learn the skills needed to analyse what is going on around you and draw up an immediate plan of action.
10. Learn the correct technique for each of the many Manoeuvres and understand why there is a correct way and an incorrect way to do things when behind the wheel.

Driving Skills are not that difficult to learn or to perfect but they can be challenging for the Learner Driver,and do take time. In the traffic situations we have today with more and more vehicles on the road the basic skills are an essential first step and without Driving Lessons these skills will be absent. The absence of basic skills which are evident in Driver behaviour covering all age groups will create many dangerous and financially crippling incidents.

With a skilled Instructor at your side you will confidently learn all the techniques needed to stay safe on the road and will not be put into situations that you cannot yet handle. This is why we need to learn the Basic skills in a controlled environment with the least amount of stress. You will progress much more quickly to a suitable safe Driving Standard with Professional Driving Lessons than by taking any other route.

Driving Instructors are required to reach and maintain a high standard in their activities and in the case of Ireland currently the Examination and accreditation process is underway.

On the 31st December 2008 all Instructors wishing to commence or remain in business will have to comply with what is basically European Standards of Driving Instruction.Most European countries have had in place an examination process and ongoing monitoring fo rmany years.The benefits to a Professionally administered sytem mean that Learner Drivers are being taught to a high skills level and not just paraded around Driving Test Routes which is very common.

Many lives will be saved over the next decade as a result of the new Driving Instructor and Learner Driver Legislation in Ireland.