Learner drivers can now log on to YouTube - as well as poring over The Highway Code and instruction manuals - as they prepare to take the L-test. The Driving Standards Agency, which oversees driver instruction and testing in the UK, has launched its own video-sharing channel on the popular website. It will show videos on road safety as well as screening advice to test candidates taking both the car and motorcycle exams.

The site will also include new case study questions that are being introduced into the theory test from next week. Nick Carter, DSA's director of strategy and performance, said: "Using YouTube will let DSA reach a wider audience than ever before - we want to talk to our audiences on the platforms we know they use.

"By putting our videos on YouTube, we're catering for the growing number of people whose first choice to find information is to go online." Visitors to the DSA channel (www.youtube.com/dsagov) can embed video content directly into their own websites or blogs, put it into forums, share it by email and even link to it through social networking sites such as Facebook. More than 100 million videos are now viewed on YouTube each day.