Requirements / human factor
- 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
- Older Drivers
- Middle age drivers
- 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