Manual Driving Lesson

By now you have got your provisional driving licence and ready to start your driving career. However, maybe you have not yet decided what type of licence you would like, i.e. manual/automatic.

In this section we try and help you decide what licence is best suited for you.

There are many factors that you should consider when choosing, firstly a manual licence will allow to you drive any car regardless of transmission; manual vehicles can be more fuel efficient and better for the environment as you control the timing of the gears to be changed.

How a manual gear lever works: the gearbox contains the gears which control the relationship between engine speed and road speed. There are typically 5/6 gear in a modern car, first gear provides the greatest force and is the gear which should be used to move the vehicle. As you speed up one should match the road speed with the gears.

Fun history:

• Did you know that the first driving test was introduced on March 13, 1935.
• Did you know that hand signals were removed in 1975 and a video hazard
  perception test introduced in 2002.
• Since 1996, drivers have to pass the written Theory Test before they are
  able to take the practical driving test.

Driving Schools in Tooting: Did you know that Tooting has been settled since pre-Saxon times, and its name means “the dwelling of the sons of Totas”

Driving Schools in Earlsfield: Did you know that Earlsfield rail station was built in April 1884 in the place of a large victorian residence called Earlsfield.

Driving Schools in Colliers Wood: Colliers Wood takes its name from a wood that stood to the east of Colliers Wood Road, approximately where Warren, Marlborough and Birdhurst Roads are now.