Freeway Exiting - A Tough Mission

Freeways are fantastic roads. However, their size and high speed limit require you, as a driver, to be more alert, especially when you enter and exit. Here is an article I wrote about the problems of exiting a freeway.

Freeway Exiting Mistakes That Destroy Driving Tests

Freeways are a great way of transportation, but like any transportation type, it must end somewhere. Freeway rides end on exits. Exiting a freeway should be relatively easy, but people still make terrible mistakes when they try to exit. During a driving test, any of the following mistakes can lead to a complete failure. Sadly, these mistakes happen very often.

The simplest and most harmless mistake is not signaling. When exiting a freeway, it's important to signal to the right (or rarely left) to indicate leaving the freeway. However, many drivers neglect that use of the turn signals and just assume that other drivers will know they are exiting. During a driving test, not signaling is a minor error, but many minor errors can accumulate to one big failure.

When the freeway exit is near, drivers should change lanes one by one until they are ready to exit. Some drivers don't read road signs, and as a result they discover that they are too far away from the exit lane, and the exit is very close. When that happens, some of them just sharply turn their wheel to the right and try to cross as many lanes as they can at once. This is a highly dangerous maneuver and also highly illegal. It is not likely to happen on a driving test, but if a student manages to do something similar, he will fail for sure.

Missing freeway exits is a common occurrence for many drivers. When that happens, some of them do what they should - continue to the next exit and turn around. Others have a more creative idea: backing up on the freeway. This is extremely dangerous and could lead to an accident in virtually no-time. If a driving student even thinks about doing that and stops on a freeway, he can forget about a driver's license at the moment it's done.

To make good freeway exits, driving students should get a good guide that will explain it to them. A guide like this will show the practicing drivers exactly how to exit a freeway, where to signal, and how to do everything in a safe manner that will also bring in the license.

You can get such a guide at the Pass your Driving Test area of my site, along with a course about driving test mistakes.

Hope you found this article useful. Be careful when exiting!

Yours,
Nadav

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