In reality, it is the Danish Road Safety Agency that decides what you need to learn in driving school. The Danish Road Safety Agency has drawn up a syllabus that describes exactly what you need to know in order to take and pass your driving test. Both you and your driving instructor are responsible for ensuring that the lessons are organised according to the syllabus. You can find the syllabus in the theory room.

The six overarching goals of the curriculum are to give you.

• Insight into and understanding of the dangers and difficulties that you as a driver encounter in traffic, but also knowledge of traffic rules and other legal regulations that are important in this context.
• Such knowledge of the car and its operation that you can recognise deficiencies that affect safety.
• Understanding some of the human factors related to driving behaviour. This understanding should enhance your abilities, counteract your limitations and otherwise help you anticipate others' difficulties in traffic.
• Ability to critically assess traffic and drive the car without endangering yourself or others.
• Attitudes to become a considerate and responsible road user.
• Finally, to teach you about the plight of vulnerable road users.

This book is based on the Danish Road Safety Agency's syllabus, so you should learn most of what is written on the following pages. A small part of it is knowledge material, but most of it you should learn so well that you can use it in traffic and directly in both the theoretical and practical driving test.

You can read more about driver training and the driving test in section 10.