Ask a learner how they know they are ready for the driving test and you will usually get a version of the same answer: “I feel ready.” Ask their supervising parent and you will get “she drives fine, I don’t

The New South Wales graduated licensing system takes most people the better part of four years to work through. It is deliberately slow, because the evidence is unambiguous that inexperienced drivers crash more, and that supervised experience is the most

Every driving school teaches the same fundamentals. Mirrors, signals, observation, gap selection, lane discipline. The road rules are identical in Macquarie Fields and Manly, and a well-taught learner in either suburb ends up with the same set of skills. So

Some people put off learning to drive for years. Not because they cannot afford it, and not because they do not need a licence, but because the thought of being in charge of a car in traffic produces a genuine

There is a particular frustration reserved for experienced drivers who fail a NSW driving test. You have driven for fifteen years. You have driven in cities far more chaotic than Ingleburn. And a testing officer has just handed you a

Sydney rain does not arrive politely. It turns up as a wall of water on a February afternoon, dumps enough in twenty minutes to flood a gutter, and leaves the roads greasy for the rest of the day. For a