What’s on the Bad Weather Driving poster
A 6-row table: Condition · Distance · Do.
Stopping distance multipliers relative to a dry road.
- Dry — ×1 — Two-second gap
- Wet — ×2 — Four-second gap
- Snow — ×3–4 — Gentle inputs, high gear
- Ice — ×10 — Avoid driving if possible
- Fog — — — Fog lights below 100 m visibility
- Strong wind — — — Both hands, expect gusts at gaps
Aquaplaning: ease off, do not brake, hold the wheel straight until the tyres regain contact.
Questions about the Bad Weather Driving poster
- What’s on the Bad Weather Driving poster?
- A 6-row table: Condition · Distance · Do. Stopping distance multipliers relative to a dry road. Dry — ×1 — Two-second gap; Wet — ×2 — Four-second gap; Snow — ×3–4 — Gentle inputs, high gear; Ice — ×10 — Avoid driving if possible; Fog — — — Fog lights below 100 m visibility; Strong wind — — — Both hands, expect gusts at gaps. Aquaplaning: ease off, do not brake, hold the wheel straight until the tyres regain contact.
- Who is the Bad Weather Driving poster for?
- Bad Weather Driving belongs to the Practical skills section rather than to a school year, because life skills is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning the car can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Bad Weather Driving poster?
- Double the gap in rain. Multiply by ten on ice. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Bad Weather Driving belongs on the wall where that life skills work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Bad Weather Driving?
- After an Accident, Breaking Down and Buying a Used Car sit alongside Bad Weather Driving in the Practical skills section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.After an AccidentBreaking DownBuying a Used Car
- Is the Bad Weather Driving poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Bad Weather Driving downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Practical skills section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Bad Weather Driving poster print at?
- Bad Weather Driving is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Bad Weather Driving loses nothing.Printing guide
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