Driving Within Your Vision

Every thread of this lesson converges on one rule, stated two ways.

By day: drive at a speed and scan pattern that let central vision reach every hazard before it becomes a threat — the antidote to both peripheral blindness and tunnel vision.

By night: never overdrive your headlights. Never travel so fast that your stopping distance exceeds the distance your lights actually reveal. Work the arithmetic: at 100 km/h your dry stop is around 92 m; if your dipped beams light 50 m of road, you are driving 42 metres beyond your ability to respond — committed to a stretch of road you cannot see. The maths is merciless and the rule is simple: you may only drive as fast as you can see to stop.

This is the Observe stage's contribution to the whole platform: every rule, distance and priority convention is worthless applied to a hazard you never perceived. Vision is where safe driving starts, and its limits are where speed should end.