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1 Free 60-Minute Driving Lesson for Learner Licence Holders @ Keys2Drive (Australian Government Funded)

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1 Free 60-Minute Driving Lesson for Learner Licence Holders @ Keys2Drive (Australian Government Funded)
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nocure on 31/03/2022 - 12:17 keys2drive.com.au (3249 clicks)

Another OzReminder for new members who may not be aware this is still available.

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Information:

Keys2drive is a revolutionary approach to learning road safety and the free driving lesson is an opportunity for the learner driver, driving instructor and parent/supervisor to learn it together.

The free lesson goes for 60 minutes, during which the Keys2drive accredited driving instructor will explain the Keys2drive learning approach – ‘Find Your Own Way’ – and offer examples of how it can be used when learning to drive. The remaining lesson time includes a practical demonstration of these skills being used and taught and you will be driving.

The Keys2drive free lesson is not intended to replace normal driving lessons rather, it should complement them by empowering learner drivers to ‘Find Their Own Way’ to becoming safer drivers.

Learner drivers will receive training in the best ways to practice, helping them gain the confidence they need to prepare for safe P plate driving and beyond.

Parents/supervisors will come away with tools to help their learner drivers achieve a good foundation for lifelong safe driving.

Who is Eligible:

The free lesson is for anyone on their L Plates, together with their parent/supervisor (the supervisor is the fully licensed driver who usually accompanies the learner when they drive).

Only learner drivers who have never driven solo before are currently eligible to apply.

To be eligible for a Keys2drive free lesson the learner driver MUST hold an Australian learners permit. Holders of international driving permits upgrading to an Australian licence are NOT eligible for a Keys2drive free lesson.

How do I book my free Keys2drive lesson?

  • All learners who have registered since 1st Jan 2020, and not yet had their free lesson, have had their Free Lesson ID expiry date automatically extended for another six months.
  • Make sure you have your Free Lesson ID (FLID) ready to go.
  • Find a Keys2drive instructor in your area
  • Contact the instructor or their drive school to arrange a booking.
  • When you have confirmed a suitable time for you, your supervisor and the driving instructor, give the driving instructor your FLID to secure your booking.

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  • Headless on 31/03/2022 - 12:27
    +3

    *Tax payer funded
    But well worth it, lots of loons on the road everyday - they need this too!

    • bio on 31/03/2022 - 17:34
      +1

      Good point. I believe it must be mandatory to take something like this for open licence owners too (when it's time to renew, for example).

  • MS Paint on 31/03/2022 - 12:38
    +23

    The free lesson is for anyone on their L Plates, together with their parent/supervisor

    I've taken advantage of this twice (2 now adult kids).

    My suggestion is to do this lesson after about 20 hours of learner driving. That way the learner is partly experienced and it's not a total waste or information overload.

    It's also a good opportunity for the parent/supervisor to brush up on their teaching skill set.

    Another advantage is it's a free opportunity to see if the learner clicks with the instructor for future lessons closer to licence time.

    • cille745 on 31/03/2022 - 14:28
      +3

      This is exactly what I did, I had my Keys2Drive lesson at 25hrs back in the day.

      Promptly realised that the instructor was terrible, much worse than my parents and recommended that no one else go to them. Good times

  • PainToad on 31/03/2022 - 12:41

    Australian Government Funded

    https://youtu.be/LO2eh6f5Go0

  • Moomt on 31/03/2022 - 12:57
    +1

    Thanks OP - have an L Plater in the household and I did not know about this - much appreciated : )

    • zooter on 31/03/2022 - 15:12
      +5

      you did not know there was a L Plater in the household!!!???

  • kiriakoz on 31/03/2022 - 12:59
    +1

    I misread title, I thought it was a free DIVING lesson. Still good one to share but really got my hopes up.

    • PainToad on 31/03/2022 - 13:20
      +3

      free DIVING lesson

      Technically the government does give this away for free to potential olympians at the Australian Institute of Sport.

      Professional sports person, aka tax payer funded hobbies.

    • Fobsessive on 31/03/2022 - 14:36
      +1

      Would've recommend driving into floods

  • brandt on 31/03/2022 - 13:01
    -5

    This would be of very high value to international drivers who are driving on Australian roads for the first time. But I guess this targets the parents of L platers who will vote in the next election.

    • tonyjzx on 31/03/2022 - 13:17
      +7

      this has been going on for years and years and isnt partisan policy

  • winternational on 31/03/2022 - 13:10

    together with their parent or supervisor

  • Ehty on 31/03/2022 - 13:18
    +1

    The only bad thing is the number of SMS reminders you get to complete the survey/feedback.

    • tdw on 31/03/2022 - 16:58

      burner phone

  • kungfuman on 31/03/2022 - 13:31

    if this was the 90s I would be doing it and then getting my test the very next day. but no adays you need a crap load of hours before you can do a test so its not worth it really lol.

    • Tleyx on 31/03/2022 - 14:18

      In the 90s you still had to wait three months you couldn't do next day. You just didn't need to prove you practiced in between

      • kungfuman on 31/03/2022 - 14:21

        depends on where you had it done I know the sunshine coast you could get it done in a day. Because its Queensland maybe in NSW or VIC they are more strict about it, but never used to worry in QLD.

    • seb on 31/03/2022 - 15:10

      LOL. A friend in South Australia in the 80s did his Ls and Ps on the same day. He'd been practicing for months in an industrial area where there was no activity on weekends.

      • kungfuman on 31/03/2022 - 15:14
        +1

        yep it was as great time to be alive things were simple

        • GordonD on 31/03/2022 - 16:07

          In my day it was even simpler. There weren't any Ps.

          • kungfuman on 31/03/2022 - 16:09

            @GordonD: in the 80s and 90s you didn't even need to put a P plate on it was optional.

  • kosh52 on 31/03/2022 - 13:36
    +1

    Me missis is 24 and still on L’s this could be useful

    • vinnychase on 31/03/2022 - 14:55
      -4

      U joined ozbargain when your missus was 13.

      • Gina Rinehart on 31/03/2022 - 15:08

        OP was probably also around that age when they joined ozbargain.. What's your point?

        • vinnychase on 31/03/2022 - 21:32
          -3

          No point. Just a interesting fact. Couples with large age gaps confuse me

          • Gina Rinehart on 31/03/2022 - 21:45
            +1

            @vinnychase: Who said they had a large age gap though? kosh52 could have joined ozb when they were 13 as well…

            Making wild assumptions confuses me

  • m0usju1c3 on 31/03/2022 - 14:27
    +2

    When does this expire? I have a 7 and 5 year old + a 6 week old.

    • Fobsessive on 31/03/2022 - 14:32
      +2

      It has been running for over a decade now

    • mrklaus on 31/03/2022 - 14:36
      +2

      Book it in advance so you already claim their spot. 😅

    • zombie hunter on 31/03/2022 - 14:58
      +2

      Never too young :)
      Some 7 years old in the country drive around the farm better than some P platers in the city

  • amaneight on 31/03/2022 - 15:18

    Is this applicable for applicants who want to convert their overseas driving license to Australian license and are required to undergo a driving test?

    • MS Paint on 31/03/2022 - 16:50

      I doubt. You have to present your Australian learner permit to the instructor.

      • bio on 31/03/2022 - 17:45
        +1

        You can get a learners permit (after passing the written exam) before you convert your overseas licence to an Australian one, but it will cost more than a 60-minute driving lesson.

        Now technically you must have the learners permit in order to be able to take the driving test if your overseas licence has already expired, but in practice nobody questions that.

  • tonyjzx on 31/03/2022 - 15:46

    here's how this shit pans out

    in a pre covid world the instructor turns up to your door

    he's gonna want to waste time so expect 15-20 mins of him bullshitting thru some theory before you get to take the wheel of his beloved 2009 mitsubishi lancer

    you get the remainder as a driving lesson

    so yes this is fine if you want some final instruction once you're parents have shouted at you for months

    also its a way for the instructor to upsell you on further lessons

    • ohagas on 02/04/2022 - 03:25

      The car needs to be no more than 7 years old and must have a 5 star ANCAP rating, so the 2009 Lancer won't cut it!

  • Charlie Sierra on 31/03/2022 - 16:05
    +2

    Step 1: get L plates
    Step 2: book lesson, and advise that you will have a different set down point
    Step 3: do lesson, get where you're going
    Step 4: saved yourself an uber

  • ireadtermsofuse on 31/03/2022 - 18:01

    Mono = one
    Rail = rail

    “And that concludes our 60 minute free driving lesson”

  • right195104 on 01/04/2022 - 09:24

    Q; Do we need to take our family car for the session? or we can use the instructor's car?

    • ohagas on 01/04/2022 - 10:19
      +1

      The lesson must be conducted in the instructor's car.

  • raymondo123 on 01/04/2022 - 10:34
    +1

    You don't even need this driver program or any lessons. I passed my test without any lessons and watched the "Driver Test guy nsw" channel videos on youtube and passed first no never having gone to an instructor. The most important tips are the following:

    1. 3 seconds distance with car in front
    2. 3 seconds gap when left right t intersection turns
    3. complete stop at stop signs
    4. 3 clicks of indicator when turning and lane changing (will be able to do this fine in exam, they will tell you whether to turn left or right and will have time to get 3 clicks in)
    5. head checks when lane changing and pulling away from kerb. (3 non head checks leads to fail).
    6. 5 seconds look after kerbside stop
    7. always go slow when turning (t-sections or traffic lights)
    8. When right turning at traffic lights, edge up a bit into the road and turn when theres a 3 second gap from oncoming traffic or on yellow or red.
    9. Make sure to manage speed and always be looking out for speed signs.(generally 50km/hr in residential areas and 60km/hr on roads).
    10. Watch the driver test guy's video on 3 point turns and reverse parallel parks and the head checks needed for those manoeuvres.

    If anybody else has any other tips, please share them below and help out other fellow L drivers :)

    • niffy on 01/04/2022 - 10:56

      This is pretty good, however I can also add:
      -knowing about what priority there is when turning at a traffic intersection and a roundabout/4 way local intersection with stop signs are also important as well. If you turn right in front of a car going straight at a stop sign you would fail. Hesitating turns while it is also your right to go (eg. you are meant to turn left, traffic is all clear, however you're just stopped for 5 seconds at a give way line) would also lead to a fail.
      -Stopping at stop signs is ultra important, you need to stop and wait a few seconds. Some Service NSW have stop signs at the exit of the carpark.
      -Pedestrian crossings, if you drive through it slowly while someone is about to cross onto it I think this would be a fail (they will tell you after you come in for results)
      -Parking : only tip is park not too close to cars. If the tester thinks you're manoeuvring your car too close to another person's car and haven't hit it yet they might record it as a fail. If you are on the street parking make sure to get your tyres on the light grey gutter, and try to use less than 5 manouvres to park, ideally 3 for parallel parking. only advice would be if you can't do backwards parking at service NSW then do front park, and vice versa

  • md333 on 01/04/2022 - 13:12

    They say you can do it at any stage, but I took a while to organise for my son and ended up doing it the week before his test, which the instructor seemed a bit annoyed about. Was still useful. We had actually done all the theory bit previously at the Eclipse free pre learner course, which is basically the same content.
    https://eclipsedrivingschool.com.au/pre-learners-safety-cour…
    Nice to get some feedback on how 'slow' is 'slow' for corners, carparks etc.

  • Smut on 02/04/2022 - 09:57

    Is this nationwide or just for Tasmanians?

  • Member 0230 on 15/04/2023 - 17:07

    Sadly now closed: "Delivery of all Keys2drive free lessons has now ceased as part of the program's shutdown".

    Curious if lack of funding triggered its closure, or was it always meant to be a (multi-year) trial from the start?

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