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Learn To Drive: Emergency Stop app for iPhone and iPad


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Education
Developer: Neil Beaver
Free
Current version: 2.0.4, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 23 Jan 2013
App size: 0 Bytes

Designed specifically for UK driving instructors, this app is the essential teaching aid for the Emergency Stop exercise.

The app is divided into four sections.

Distance section:
• Stopping distances
• How to apply the 2 second rule
• Why it is important to maintain a safe following distance

Planning section:
• Dealing with an obstructed view and looking for feet beneath parked vehicles
• Planning to pass a cyclist while thinking ahead and anticipating
• Planning to pass a parked vehicle while observing oncoming traffic and anticipating

Skidding section:
• Interactive demonstration of basic skid control by steering into the skid
• What happens if you steer the wrong way when skidding

Info section:
• Graph showing exponential increase of brake and when to put the clutch down
• Briefing notes for how to carry out an emergency stop and safely get moving again

Each section also includes the following extra features: 
• Briefing text - ideal for PDIs and learners 
• Option to email a link to online briefing 
• Option to save your own images into the app 
• Easy-eye colour mode (ideal for Irlen sufferers) 
• Drawing tool

PLEASE NOTE: This app is intended as a training aid and should not be considered a substitute for professional tuition from a qualified driving instructor.