Canberra, ACT7 days, including evenings and weekends
Canberra, ACT7 days, including evenings and weekends
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Instructor’s training vehicle
Learn vehicle control, observation and safe road decisions in the instructor’s dual-controlled automatic car.
What you'll practise
Without a clutch and gears to coordinate, you can focus on observation, positioning, speed choice, hazards, intersections and traffic decisions.
Most Canberra learners now choose automatic. With no clutch or gear changes to manage, you usually reach safe driving in traffic sooner, and lesson time goes on the skills assessors look for: observation, head checks, gap selection, speed management and lane positioning. It suits new learners, nervous drivers and anyone who mainly plans to drive an automatic car.
Lessons are in the instructor’s dual-controlled automatic car, so your instructor can brake if needed. That safety net helps beginners and nervous learners relax and learn faster. You don’t need your own car, and you can practise in a family automatic between lessons.
Automatic lessons can count towards the ACT logbook (CBT&A) pathway. Each hour with an ACT accredited instructor counts as 3 hours in your logbook, up to 10 actual hours, and your instructor plans each lesson around the competencies you still need. Not sure which pathway suits you? Read ACT logbook vs one-off driving test.
We pick up from home, school, university or work across Canberra, including Gungahlin, Belconnen, the inner north, Woden, Weston Creek and Molonglo Valley, 7 days a week. Eligible new logbook learners pay $75 for their first lesson, single lessons are $85, and logbook packages start from $78 a lesson. See all prices.
Passing your provisional assessment in an automatic may give you an automatic-only licence condition. Check the current rules and how to remove it with Access Canberra.
What happens next
1
Tell us what you’ve done so far and what feels uncertain. We start by watching you drive.
2
Each lesson works on a small group of skills, in conditions that suit your level, with patient coaching.
3
You finish with honest feedback and what to practise with your supervising driver.
More lessons
Clutch control and gear changes in your own registered, roadworthy, insured manual car.
First lessons for ACT learners: controls, moving off, stopping, steering and observation on quiet streets.
Competency-based training with an ACT accredited instructor, with feedback after every lesson.
Call to talk through your experience, licence stage and pickup suburb. No package needed to start.
Open 7 days, 7:00am to 7:00pm · Canberra, ACT
