It Turns Out Driving Straight Is Best From Beginning To End

Well, they say learning to drive should result in you becoming a good driver. How well you end up driving is a good question. It all depends. Most people learn to operate a motor vehicle, also known as driving, without the help of professionals. Sound advice is that a spouse should never be your driving instructor. However, teens realize driving is their first taste of real freedom. Thus, it is common for this learning curve and skill to be accomplished in the early years.

Beginning soon I will decide when and where to go for a change. There are places I have been studying where young people can go and not be disturbed. Also, being a big fan of auto racing makes me itch to jam my foot down on the accelerator and fly low to the ground. Perhaps I can buy my own vehicle and put decals and a favorite driver number on it.

Totally rudimentary is that driving on the public highway is a privilege not a right. Many come to forget this. Aggressive driving and road rage is all too commonplace today. So too is the increasing number of impaired drivers due to drugs, alcohol or other causes. Surviving driving during an entire lifetime, without tragedy, will require a defensive attitude and never insisting on the right of way.

New drivers are especially at risk. They haven’t acquired the skills and reflexes needed for the long haul of a lifetime of driving. A disproportionate number of accidents are caused by them. Every generation has had to bury certain of their numbers.

If you were dozing off in science class and missed the lessons about forces on moving objects you will be at a disadvantage to understanding why your vehicle left the road on that sharp curve. Centrifugal force charges everyone the same fees. Going faster coming out of curves will hold your vehicle on the road. Seems like slowing down would be better you say?

When you pick up a magazine written for car enthusiasts one of the first things mentioned for each model is acceleration. Much more important to the novice driver is stopping ability. “What goes up must come down” used to always be true. Much more the case is if you can’t stop it you may have had your next to last ride. The hearse is last.

Trendy folks texting and talking on the cell phone while driving not only ignores the others in their vehicles but puts what is going on out the windshield out of mind. Perhaps being preoccupied to the extent that you don’t remember passing a familiar intersection is bad. But, this recent distraction is far worse. Attempts to address this hazard are coming in the form of new laws. But, resistance to it is heavy. Best advice -don’t do it.

Some years ago a concerned father bought his new driver daughter the heaviest car he could find. Safety was the goal. Unfortunately, a truck hit her and her friends broadside. The mass of the truck trumped the heavy sedan. Never lose your fear of the other guy while driving and keep the odds on your side by playing it smart. Drive defensively.

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Posted on 1 November '09, under Cars.