The answer options
- Environmental damage
- Fuel consumption increases
- Road safety improves
- Exhaust emissions decreaseCorrect
Why that is the answer
Driving in a fuel-efficient manner reduces the amount of fuel your vehicle burns. By accelerating smoothly, changing gear early, and anticipating hazards, you ensure the engine works less hard. This directly lowers the volume of harmful exhaust emissions, such as carbon dioxide, released into the atmosphere. Rather than increasing fuel consumption or causing environmental damage, eco-safe driving actively protects the environment and cuts your fuel bills, in line with DVSA guidance.
How this comes up in the real test
Questions from safety and your vehicle appear throughout the 50-question multiple-choice section, and the wording changes between versions. Learn the rule rather than the sentence: the DVSA can ask the same point from the opposite direction, and a memorised answer falls over the moment the phrasing moves.
The pass mark is 43 out of 50, so seven wrong answers is your entire margin. If a whole category is shaky, run the topic practice below until you are getting every question right for the right reason, then go back to full mocks under the clock.
More safety and your vehicle questions
- A vehicle MOT test will include an exhaust emissions test. What is the reason for this?
- Before leaving your vehicle unattended, what should you remove from it?
- How can drivers help the environment?
- How can driving in a fuel-efficient manner help protect the environment?
- How can the volume of traffic on roads be reduced?
- How can you avoid wasting fuel?