What do you do differently now?
Discussion
Looking at the threads about learning to pass the test V learning to drive and about supervising learners, I wondered how different most peoples current driving technique (as opposed to standard of observation etc) is from what they were taught on the DSA test.
In my case I don't think it's very different.
I now know about limit points which I didn't then. I've learned how to overtake from the IAM. I don't always negotiate roundabouts in 2nd, and I occasionally change to first on the move after deciding the reason my instructor told me never to do so was perhaps lack of syncromesh on first.
After 30 years I still generally use pull push, drive with both hands on the wheel (though now nearer quarter to three than ten to two) and still don't bother to heel and toe.
In my case I don't think it's very different.
I now know about limit points which I didn't then. I've learned how to overtake from the IAM. I don't always negotiate roundabouts in 2nd, and I occasionally change to first on the move after deciding the reason my instructor told me never to do so was perhaps lack of syncromesh on first.
After 30 years I still generally use pull push, drive with both hands on the wheel (though now nearer quarter to three than ten to two) and still don't bother to heel and toe.
james_gt3rs said:
I look in the mirrors when I consciously need to see what is behind - when I was a learner I was trained to look in them all the time, but I didn't really take much information from them.
I only passed my test in December and my instructor taught me to only look in the mirrors when necessary, although I tended to look in the mirrors more than he thought necessary.I now heel & toe most of the time, but didn't do it when I was learning because it is something that you need to learn on your own...
I am quite a lot more aware of what is going on around me when driving on my own and not having an instructor/my dad in the car.
GFWilliams said:
james_gt3rs said:
I look in the mirrors when I consciously need to see what is behind - when I was a learner I was trained to look in them all the time, but I didn't really take much information from them.
I only passed my test in December and my instructor taught me to only look in the mirrors when necessary, although I tended to look in the mirrors more than he thought necessary.I now heel & toe most of the time, but didn't do it when I was learning because it is something that you need to learn on your own...
I am quite a lot more aware of what is going on around me when driving on my own and not having an instructor/my dad in the car.
Dr Jekyll said:
Looking at the threads about learning to pass the test V learning to drive and about supervising learners, I wondered how different most peoples current driving technique (as opposed to standard of observation etc) is from what they were taught on the DSA test.
Which DSA test ? 
vonhosen said:
Dr Jekyll said:
Looking at the threads about learning to pass the test V learning to drive and about supervising learners, I wondered how different most peoples current driving technique (as opposed to standard of observation etc) is from what they were taught on the DSA test.
Which DSA test ? 
waremark said:
All you guys who use heel and toe, why/when do you use it? Are you by any chance changing down through the gears, instead of using 'slow until you know, change gear and go'?
I do it to keep in practice for when I drive on track, so not all the time, but when I feel like itI failed my first test for using H&T and crossing my hands rather than shuffling the frickin wheel when turning 
. I passed my second test with flying colours by doing a very good driving miss daisy impersonation. The thing I do differently now is I don't drive like I'm driving miss daisy 
. I passed my second test with flying colours by doing a very good driving miss daisy impersonation. The thing I do differently now is I don't drive like I'm driving miss daisy vonhosen said:
Dr Jekyll said:
What is meant by 'driving miss Daisy'?
What driving style do you think will be going on here ?
To put it another way, is anyone who doesn't heel and toe or cross hands on the wheel necessarily driving miss Daisy?
Dr Jekyll said:
vonhosen said:
Dr Jekyll said:
What is meant by 'driving miss Daisy'?
What driving style do you think will be going on here ?
A smooth, moderately paced, non-eventful drive - however it is achieved - will probably suffice for her purposes.
Best wishes all,
Dave.
Dr Jekyll said:
vonhosen said:
Dr Jekyll said:
What is meant by 'driving miss Daisy'?
What driving style do you think will be going on here ?
To put it another way, is anyone who doesn't heel and toe or cross hands on the wheel necessarily driving miss Daisy?
matt1269 said:
Syndrome said:
The thing I do differently now is I don't drive like I'm driving miss daisy
She certainly wouldn't like being sideways into a curb.Honestly- what kind of person goes into a driving test determined to show a lack of respect for the task in hand. By all means disagree with elements of the test and how to pass it, but don't throw it in the examiner's face unless you're terminally stupid.
Ah, I see...
10 Pence Short said:
Honestly- what kind of person goes into a driving test determined to show a lack of respect for the task in hand. By all means disagree with elements of the test and how to pass it, but don't throw it in the examiner's face unless you're terminally stupid.
Ah, I see...
Probably the sort of idiot who's so insanely stupid they post about going out and driving like a pillock, on a public forum (using their real details so it's easy for them to get caught), then go out and drive like a minge, cause a really nasty injury accident then get put in the slammer and then whine on about it like a girl, I'd imagine. Pepe is that Raymond the bAh, I see...
d I hear in the background? 
Edited by Syndrome on Thursday 18th February 07:35
Syndrome said:
Probably the sort of idiot who's so insanely stupid they post about going out and driving like a pillock, on a public forum (using their real details so it's easy for them to get caught), then go out and drive like a minge, cause a really nasty injury accident then get put in the slammer and then whine on about it like a girl, I'd imagine. Pepe is that Raymond the bd I hear in the background?
I think you do 10penceshort a great disservice.d I hear in the background? Edited by Syndrome on Thursday 18th February 07:35
Many members have posted that his experience and his writing about it has made them consider their driving behaviour on public roads.
We've all been idiots, me too but that was long before the internet.
So, we can now learn from others' experiences not just our own.
That's good, is it not?
I still follow the basic rules I was taught when I was 17, but my driving has changed beyond all recognition! I don't think I could even start to list things. I rev match and heel and toe, I'm more inventive with road positioning, I think more about what other people are thinking rather than following things for the sake of it, umm - loads more!
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