{"id":672,"date":"2017-04-15T17:28:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/?p=672"},"modified":"2017-04-15T17:29:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T16:29:20","slug":"driving-new-driving-test-changes-from-december-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"New Driving Test Changes from December 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The driving test for cars is changing from the 4th December 2017. The changes are designed to make the test more representative of real world driving.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here at Drive Fareham Driving School we already teach all of the skills that you would need to handle the new changes, so whether you&#8217;ll be preparing for the current or new style test, we&#8217;ll get our pupils ready. It&#8217;s just a matter of applying the skills to the situations that are on the new test.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 4 main changes to the test are:<\/p>\n<p>1) The independent driving part of the test will increase to 20 minutes<\/p>\n<p>2) most candidates will be asked to follow directions from a sat nav<\/p>\n<p>3) the reversing manoeuvres will be changed<\/p>\n<p>4) answering a vehicle safety question while you\u2019re driving<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Drive Fareham can field any questions that any pupils have on the changes, so feel free to ask, but more information dorectly from the DVSA can be found here: \u00a0https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/driving-test-changes-4-december-2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The driving test for cars is changing from the 4th December 2017. The changes are designed to make the test more representative of real world driving. &nbsp; Here at Drive Fareham Driving School we already teach all of the skills that you would need to handle the new changes, so whether you&#8217;ll be preparing for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-driving-test-changes","9":"tag-new-driving-test","11":"post-with-thumbnail","12":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drivefareham.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}