The following short video clips assume that other than limit point, there are no other reasons why you could not drive as fast as you wanted to. In reality of course, your speed may be limited by legal limits, road and weather conditions, the vehicle abilities and most importantly, your abilities. Point analysis is a simple system that helps you decide how quickly you can safely travel based upon the distance between you and what you can see to be clear on your side of the road, the limit of your safety. Whilst this sounds obvious, most drivers base their speed on how fast can I go around this corner rather than the more important could I stop if I had to. If the answer is yes, then you can continue at that speed and possibly even accelerate. If the answer is no, then you are driving too fast to be safe. As you drive, if the limit becomes closer, you need to decide if you still have a stopping distance. As you clear the hazard, the limit will move further away. When this happens, you may start to accelerate. Clip 1. Gentle bends then an open road. The limit point is shown here by the blue arrow. It's the furthest point we can see to be clear on our side of the road. Notice as we approach this bend, we still aren't seeing any more. Suddenly we are able to see further out of the right and then further out of the left. The furthest point we can still see to be clear is pointed out by this blue arrow. That's the place you need to be focusing on deciding could you stop between where you are now and where it is. As we clear that first bend, we can suddenly see very much more and this is an opportunity to accelerate. Looking ahead now we can see very much more road but still there's a limit. There are trees in our way that tell us that we haven't got a straight road. Until we reach this point here, we're suddenly we can see quite literally as far as the eye can see. This is the time to accelerate, subject of course to the other conditions around us and you may note the warning triangles to the left and to the right. Clip 2 when the limit point doesn't move. On this straight section of road, I'd like to concentrate on that limit point and the cheve ones at the end of the road. Notice we're travelling quite a distance and we still can't see any more. In fact, we're travelling along way and the limit point still hasn't moved indicates that we really have got a serious bend coming up. In this case it's about a 90 degree to the right. If the limit point doesn't move, watch out. Clip 3 not all hazards are bends. On this clip we start with a relatively straight piece of road with a very gentle curve. You may notice road size 2 left that tell you about a humpback bridge and the hazard now is simply that we can't see where we're going. It's not the curve that's doing it, it's the humpback and there may be a hazard we might need to have stopped for. So remember not all hazards are bends and the limit point system works for all hazards. Remember limit point analysis is a system for working out a safe speed based only upon the visibility available. Provailing road, weather and traffic conditions need to be taken into account as do the abilities of both your vehicle and most importantly you the driver.