Today's episode is taken from our new podcast, Driving Test Tips, which is based around the top 10 reasons that people fail their driving test. However, the content of the episodes, isn't just for learner drivers as we hope that it will help drivers who want to build their confidence, fill any gaps in their knowledge, or maybe have a light bulb moment while they're listening. So next on the list is poor positioning on the road. During normal driving. So this one is all about your position of your car when you are driving on a road. And what we really want to do is to stay in a normal driving position. So what is a normal driving position? So it could be in the middle of your lane. And, if you think of a normal road with a normal size it's normally. About a meter away from the curb or a doors width. And that's what probably what you instructors told you. And this is the position that you should always be driving in while you're driving. What you might fail your test for? Is that you are going too close to the curb or you're going too close to the center of the road. If you're too close to the curb, you obviously get close to the pedestrians, putting them at risk. If you're too close to the center of the road. Oncoming vehicles might be too close to you. So we always need to make sure that we stay in a normal driving position. If you are on a bigger road. That's got quite wide lanes. Still stay. A meter away from. The solid white line or from your left hand side, always use the left hand side as a guide for you. Okay. I didn't know that. There you go. so we have a road close to us. That's got quite wide lanes. It's a single carriage way, but there's quite wide lanes. And what people tend to do is drive in the middle of that lane. Yeah, that's what I do. I think. But what we need to do is to stay to the left hand side. To allow people to overtake us, although only a single carriage way. What we wanna be doing is driving. On the left hand side of the road, a meter from that solid white line. So that others can overtake if they need. Okay, that makes sense. I will bear that in mind. So that's one of the things that we need to do when we are driving. Another part of this is imagine that you have joined a dual carriageway and you've overtaken something. So you've now you're in the right hand lane of a dual carriageway. So what happens is. You just stay in that right-hand lane. You've passed that vehicle and instead of checking to make sure it's safe to move back over, you've now just stayed in right hand lane for some reason. Don't ask me why you've done that. I don't know, but there must be some reason why you've done it. And the inside lane is now safe, so there's not more cars ahead of you that you're potentially gonna overtake quite soon. There's no other cars in front. There's no other cars in the left hand lane. There's no cars on the right hand lane. There. Why are you staying in the right hand lane? Yeah. And it's that question all the time of who am I overtaking? And if I'm not overtaking anybody, then I should be in the left hand lane. The, in another question is what side of the road do I drive on? I always drive in the left hand lane. Unless I'm overtaking That's the only time you use the right hand lane is to overtake. And if you're not overtaking move back over. Cuz again, what, again, you might be able to do is. Hold people up on that right hand lane and you, again, you don't wanna do that. So always driving the left hand lane of a dual carriage way, unless you're overtaking So another one that normal driving position fault might occur is if you imagine that you approaching a roundabout. And there's two lanes on this roundabout, but there's no road markings, but there's enough space for two cars to get round the roundabout and on approach. On approach is enough space for two cars and also on the roundabout. There's enough space for two cars. So, what you do is. You're in the left hand lane and you want to go to the road ahead, which is the second exit. So instead of staying, following the curb, going round the roundabout. You take the shortest route possible. And you straight line around about. And again, what you've done. Is you have potentially caused danger to others. So if there was a car there. Potentially potentially you've just written him off. Yeah. So that is classed as a serious fault. You potentially cause danger to others. If you did the same actions. So you approached the roundabout in the left hand lane. And you wanna go to the road ahead? There's two lanes on the roundabout, not marked, but you don't. Stay to the left hand lane and you straight line the roundabout, but this time there is a car next to you and what happens is that car has to slam on his brakes because you've now cut him up on a roundabout, cuz you've straight lined the roundabout. That's class as a dangerous fault. So there's two different types of faults there. Serious and a dangerous, serious as you potentially cause danger. The dangerous one is you did. Yeah, others had to take action. So when you are approaching these roundabouts. Stay in your normal driving position, you know, stay in the outside lane, if you're in the left hand lane. Stay following that curb that we just spoke about, even if it's a straight road. Roundabouts, you still need to follow a curb. If it's a straight road, follow the white line. In a normal driving position, that's what you're looking for. Yep. Hold your lane, hold your lane. Hold your position. There we go. We hope you found that useful. If you did, don't forget to share it with others or leave us a review. You can find the other reasons that people fail their driving test in our spinoff podcast series Driving Test Tips, if you'd like to listen to them all in one place. 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