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Tuning up for drivers

Tuning Up for Drivers is a hands-on manual for new drivers and their supervisors. It guides you through your driving practice sessions, with helpful colour illustrations of key driving tips and manoeuvers.

Study Tuning Up for Drivers—along with RoadSense for Drivers—to prepare for your road test or to practice driving as a new driver.

Who should study Tuning up for Drivers?

When should Tuning up for Drivers be used?

As you work through Tuning Up for Drivers, also refer to B.C.'s safe driving guide, RoadSense for Drivers. Together, they will help you become a skilful, safe driver.

What’s in Tuning up for Drivers?

Tuning up for Drivers contains essential driving skills in 20 separate units. Progress through a unit each time you go out for a drive. Start by practicing basic driving skills and work your way up to more complex ones.

Practice session Topic
Session 1 Drivers Pre-Trip Check, Knowing Your Controls (PDF)
Session 2 Road Vision; Getting Going (PDF)
Session 3 See-Think-Do; Backing Up (PDF)
Session 4 Driving Straight Through; Turning Right (PDF)
Session 5 Smart Brake and Horn Use; Turning Left (PDF)
Session 6 Self-Check; Practising What you Have Learned (PDF)
Session 7 Alcohol, Drugs and Driving; Driving on Hills and Curves (PDF)
Session 8 Saying No; Stall Parking (PDF)
Session 9 Resisting Media Messages; Two- and Three-Point Turns (PDF)
Session 10 New Driver Overconfidence; Parallel Parking (PDF)
Session 11 Your Personal Driver Profile; Mini-Test (PDF)
Session 12 Sharing the Road; Lanes and Intersections (PDF)
Session 13 Communicating; Changing Lanes Turning Right in Traffic (PDF)
Session 14 Hazard Perception; Turning Left in Traffic (PDF)
Session 15 Road Rage; Entering and Leaving Traffic (PDF)
Session 16 Choosing a Safe Speed; Practising in Moderate Traffic (PDF)
Session 17 Times and Space; Entering and Leaving the Highway/Freeway (PDF)
Session 18 Keeping Alert; Passing (PDF)
Session 19 Driver Personality; Becoming a Skilled Highway/Freeway Driver (PDF)
Session 20 Driving Guidelines; Preparing for the Road Test (PDF)

Copyright and statement of limitation (PDF)