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Before you start stage three
Check you’re ready to start stage three.
In this topic
Building on your stage two skills
Recap on your stage two goals
Building on your stage two skills
In stage two, you gained experience driving on quiet, low-speed roads with other road users in a range of new situations and environments.
In stage three, you’re going to apply the skills you’ve been developing in stages one and two to more complex situations, such as main roads, busy traffic and difficult conditions.
You’ll spend a lot of time in this stage and it will feel more challenging than stages one and two.
The key thing is to always go on drives that match your experience level, so you drive in low-risk through to more challenging situations over time.
As you progress, new driving situations will gradually become harder to help you develop safe driving behaviours.
Always talk with your supervising driver about how you’re going, so you only move on to new tasks when you’re ready.
Recap on your stage two goals
Before you start stage three, you and your supervising driver should agree you're able to do these tasks well:
- Move from and stop at the kerb.
- Use mirrors and do head checks.
- Check for hazards when moving off.
- Drive on straight, quiet and low-speed roads.
- Drive around curves on quiet, low-speed roads.
- Turn left at intersections.
- Use roundabouts on quiet, low-speed roads.
- Slow down coming up to intersections.
- Travel through quiet intersections.
- Turn right at quiet intersections.
- Keep to the speed limit or at safe speeds for the conditions.
- Leave a safe space at the kerb and between your car and other cars.
- Start and stop on hills.
- Do a three-point turn and parallel park.
- Reverse out of a driveway or out of a parking spot.
- Use hazard perception of see, think and do on quiet streets.
- Obey traffic lights and give way and stop signs.
Review stage two goals before you start stage three.