Requirements / human factor

Physical capabilities

  • Eyesight, eyesight test
  • Hearing
  • Feeling
  • Tricks of the senses
  • The importance of health and fitness

Impaired physical capabilities

  • Illnesses and disabilities
  • Attention, concentration and fatigue
  • Distraction
  • Alcohol
  • Illegal drugs
  • Medication

The driver’s personality

  • The influence that emotions have on behaviour
  • Stress
  • Controlling our emotions
  • Driver roles, self-images
  • Driver ideals

The legal framework

The legal framework

Keeping motor vehicles

  • The driving licence and the driving permit
  • Classes of driving permits

Registering motor vehicles, driving documents

  • Motor vehicles with compulsory registration and vehicles that do not require registration
  • The registration authority
  • Licensing Certificate Part II
  • Licensing Certificate Part I
  • The permit for use
  • Insurance certificate
  • The certificate of the official inspection

(incl. exhaust-test certificate)

  • Number plates

Vehicles inspections

  • Changes to the vehicle

Insurance, loss of insurance coverage

  • Legal liability insurance
  • Partial coverage insurance
  • Comprehensive insurance
  • Passengers‘ accident insurance
  • Insurance for legal expenses
  • Damages, recourse

International motor traffic

  • Insurance abroad

Basic rules and signs

Basic rule section 1 of the German Highway Code

  • Caution
  • Consideration
  • Causing harm
  • Causing danger
  • Causing obstructions
  • Causing a nuisance
  • The principle of trust

Road signs and traffic facilities

  • Basics of traffic signs
  • Limits of traffic signs
  • Special features
  • Danger signs
  • Mandatory signs
  • Advisory signs
  • Traffic facilities
  • Symbols

Road traffic system

 

The road traffic system and its use, level crossings

Traffic routes: meaning, use and dangers

  • The road
  • The carriageway
  • Lanes
  • Lane markings
  • Driving on the right
  • Using lanes
  • Special routes

Autobahns and clearways

  • Joining the autobahn
  • Behaviour on the autobahn
  • Leaving the autobahn

level crossings

  • Approaching a level crossing
  • The duty to wait
  • Continuing your journey after the level crossing

Priority

Priority

  • Meaning and definition
  • Right of way / turning left
  • Right before left
  • Waiting rules
  • Road signs regulating priority
  • Priority for traffic bearing right or left
  • Roundabouts

Traffic regulation

Traffic regulation

Traffic regulation by traffic lights

  • Red
  • Red and amber
  • Green
  • Amber
  • Stop or proceed?
  • Flashing amber lights
  • 2-colour traffic lights
  • Green arrow

The regulation of traffic by police officers

Driving with consideration for the environment at crossroads  and junctions

Special traffic situations

Permanent lights

Importance of speed

  • Speed adapted to the situation
  • Relationships between speed, distance and stopping distance

  • Estimation of stopping distance at different speeds

  • Getting used to sufficient safety distances

  • Awareness of the dangers of excessive speed

  • Constant control of speed by adapting to traffic conditions, road conditions
  • weather and visibility conditions

  • Knowledge and acceptance of speed regulations

  • Knowledge of the relationship between speed and pollutant emissions

  • Choice of environmentally friendly speeds

  • realistic self-assessment of own speed behaviour

  • Knowledge of the risk of speeding and speeding habits

Other road users

Other road users

Public transport

  • Buses, school buses and trams
  • Bus stops and tram stops
  • Taxis

Other motor vehicles

  • Motorcycles
  • Cars
  • Large and heavy vehicles

Further road users

  • Cyclists
  • Personal transporter
  • Inline skaters/roller skaters
  • Pedestrians
  • Zebra crossings
  • Pelican crossings
  • Children
  • Elderly people and people in need of assistance

Measures to subdue traffic

  • 30 km/h zone
  • 20 km/h zone
  • Areas in which traffic is limited to walking

pace and pedestrians have priority

  • Pedestrian zones precincts
  • Constructions

Manoeuvres-observation

Driving manoeuvres, observing the traffic

Entering traffic and moving off

Travelling side by side

  • Changing lane
  • The zipper feed-in method

Passing by

  • Narrow places in the road

Overtaking

  • Prohibitions against overtaking
  • Special dangers Reversing

Avoiding an obstacle 

Turning off

  • Recognising the crossroads
  • Inside mirror/outside mirrors
  • Indicators
  • Looking over your shoulder/checking that it is safe
  • Getting into the right lane
  • Distance from the crossroads
  • Recognising priority
  • Observing priority
  • Turning off, accelerating
  • Risks when turning off

Turning and U-turns

Reversing

 

Stationary traffic

Stationary traffic

 Stopping and parking

  • Basic principles
  • Parking manoeuvres
  • Parking in a multi-storey car park
  • Prohibitions against stopping
  • Prohibitions against parking
  • Parking zone
  • Devices for monitoring parking time

Getting in and out

  • Securing the vehicle
  • Dangers and how to behave

Securing vehicles that have broken down

Towing away, towing and towing along

  • Towing away
  • Towing
  • Towing along

Special situations-traffic rules

The use of lighting devices

  • Side-marker lights
  • Dipped headlights
  • Full beam
  • Rear fog lamp
  • Fog lamp
  • Using the lighting devices when

stopping and parking

Behaviour towards special vehicles

  • Blue and amber flashing light

Traffic stops by the police

Behaviour after a road accident

  • The 10-point check list
  • Securing the scene of the accident
  • First-aid, seeking help
  • Other duties
  • Accidents involving game

Tunnel

  • Driving in
  • Behaviour
  • Congestion
  • Breakdown/accident
  • Fire

The consequences of breaking the

traffic rules

  • Cautions
  • Notice of a fine
  • Criminal offence
  • The system of penalty points
  • Ban on driving
  • Confiscation of driving permit
  • Medical and psychological test (MPU)

Lifelong learning

Lifelong learning

  1. Older Drivers
  2. Middle age drivers
  3. Beginners and young drivers
  • Facts
  • Driving experience
  • Accompanied driving from age 17
  • Willingness to take risk
  • Disco accident – not likely!

Supplementary training seminars 

  • The probationary licence
  • Supplementary training seminar for beginners (ASF)
  • Voluntary seminar for beginners (FSF)
  • Supplementary training seminar for offenders (ASP)
  • Psychological help in traffic matters

Further training

  • Risks due to lack of information
  • Safety training
  • Courses on driving with consideration for the environment

Technology-transport

Technical conditions, the transport of passengers and goods

Vehicle engineering

  • Operational safety
  • Roadworthiness
  • Electronic aids
  • Vehicles without a clutch pedal – automatic transmission

Driving physics

  • The effect of forces

The transport of persons and

goods

  • The transport of persons
  • Loading areas, loading spaces and loading

Vehicle dimensions

Vehicles and combinations

Driving single vehicles and combinations, ecological use of motor vehicles

Vehicle combinations

  • Putting together combination vehicles
  • Connecting and disconnecting vehicles with a ball-shaped coupling
  • Special legal requirements
  • Driving with vehicle combinations

Using the brakes

Ecological use of motor vehicles

  • Driving and saving – the most important tips on „economical“ driving
  • Traffic prohibitions

Social rules 

Identification