Reply to: Learning to drive

[~Craig~]

You don't need to feed the wheel any more. You just need to show that you are in control of the car.

I didn't ever do it when I learnt in 1999.

[wendigo100]

Yeh, that feeding thing is utter carp. If racing drivers did that they would never get round the first bend.

We cannot compare racing drivers with users of the public highway as like for like. They require different skills.

For example, racers take every corner at the maximum possible speed with back-wheel slides and everything - should we be taught that in our driving test?

[Churchill]

Don't use BSM - they will keep saying you need lessons for ever - find a local one-man-band operation and take your kid out driving as often as you can.
Get a cheap carppy car for them to practice in - less expense if they mash it.

You can also get copies of the test routes for your area - practice these too.
My kid passed first time last year using this method.

Good luck.

You may be qualified to drive, are you qualified to teach?

[Bagpuss]

I On Sunday while going round a 3 lane 90 degree bend a black-taxi driver in the third lane attempted to take a short-cut through the bit of the second lane I was occupying at the time, and I was completely unable to express my feelings, due to the fact that my horn is operated by two tiny buttons near the edge of steering wheel that are nowhere near my thumbs when I'm turning. (When going straight I can find the horn with my thumbs without taking my eyes off the road, if I were to look down and find the buttons and take one hand off the wheel to hoot it'd be a half-an-hour before I saw the road again.)

Actually that's the worst feature of my car; the horn is virtually impossible to locate, even when my hands are in the normal position.

The Highway Code:
The horn should be used to warn other road users that you are there - it should not be used as a rebuke

I also like the bit about hazzard lights

Hazzard lights should not be used an an excuse for illegal or poor parking

[shaunbhoy]

Driving through Dublin though was the best lesson though, if you can navigate those streets with all the morons with no licences, you've got it made.

My Uncle, God rest his soul, once received an award from the place he worked for in Dublin for driving 1 million miles without an accident. Mind you, there was a lot less traffic back then, but even so. Okay....carry on....

[Bagpuss]

The thing to remember, the method of driving taught pre-license is an ideal.

It is ideally forgotten post-license.

Yeah watch Death Race 2000 for the apparent ideal way post test

[MisterGoof]

Dodgy, give BSM a ring, you're going to have to take the pain one way or another. At least with the pain in the wallet you keep your sanity.

Mark.

Don't use BSM - they will keep saying you need lessons for ever - find a local one-man-band operation and take your kid out driving as often as you can.
Get a cheap carppy car for them to practice in - less expense if they mash it.

You can also get copies of the test routes for your area - practice these too.
My kid passed first time last year using this method.

Good luck.

[xoggoth]

Yeh, that feeding thing is utter crap. If racing drivers did that they would never get round the first bend.

[Troll]

I'm going to have to try and break the habit, because doing this means I can't use the horn while cornering. On Sunday while going round a 3 lane 90 degree bend a black-taxi driver in the third lane attempted to take a short-cut through the bit of the second lane .

You need a 10 year old 4x4... then taxis don't tend to do things like that...trouble is, artics & van drivers still do

[IR35 Avoider]

I still do what (I think is) an abreviated version of the shuffle, i.e pull with one hand until I've got the amount of turn I want, then reposition hands to hold the wheel in that position. I wasn't ever actually taught to do this, this was just my guess at how the shuffle was supposed to work.

I'm going to have to try and break the habit, because doing this means I can't use the horn while cornering. On Sunday while going round a 3 lane 90 degree bend a black-taxi driver in the third lane attempted to take a short-cut through the bit of the second lane I was occupying at the time, and I was completely unable to express my feelings, due to the fact that my horn is operated by two tiny buttons near the edge of steering wheel that are nowhere near my thumbs when I'm turning. (When going straight I can find the horn with my thumbs without taking my eyes off the road, if I were to look down and find the buttons and take one hand off the wheel to hoot it'd be a half-an-hour before I saw the road again.)

Actually that's the worst feature of my car; the horn is virtually impossible to locate, even when my hands are in the normal position.

[Churchill]

The push pull system is a load of BS. It should be the pull pull system.

In cars without power steering then pulling the wheel gives you more control than pushing the wheel. Also you have 2 hands on the wheel at all times.

Better get some professional lessons, intensive course is the best imo. The pro will teach you how to drive and how to pass the test.

I agree. Also, pay extra for the post test training. Learn to drive on motorways etc.

[cailin maith]

By means of forward and reverse gears...

Love you...

[Sockpuppet]

The push pull system is a load of BS. It should be the pull pull system.

In cars without power steering then pulling the wheel gives you more control than pushing the wheel. Also you have 2 hands on the wheel at all times.

Better get some professional lessons, intensive course is the best imo. The pro will teach you how to drive and how to pass the test.

[Churchill]

All right then, contrary knickers - turn in the road!!!

By means of forward and reverse gears...

Love you...

[cailin maith]

There's no such thing as a 3 pt turn in the Driving Test.

Dodgy, give BSM a ring, you're going to have to take the pain one way or another. At least with the pain in the wallet you keep your sanity.

Mark.

All right then, contrary knickers - turn in the road!!!