Driving Question

[PokerWoody]

Or Egypt, where rumour has it (perhaps an urban myth?) that to past your test you have to drive down a straight road and get in to 4th gear.

In the artic, sometimes the transmission has 10 gears!

[PokerWoody]

I don't get this bit. Did you mean to type something else?

Yep lol.

"1-1.5 feet"

how's that!

[scarlet]

I always use my handbrake and put it in neutral but that's only because I'm trying to get some more life out of my nearly knackered clutch!

[Dice Man]

Bumpage. I ended up being forced to put my driving test back because my lessons were going quite badly at the time. So it's now on 22nd May. But I think I'm getting quite close to passable now. Manoeuvres and roundabouts are going well. The one thing I keep getting criticised though is not looking far enough ahead of us. Apparently if something happens like my lane getting clogged up I tend to wait until I'm already there before I try to pull out rather than anticipating it ahead of time.

[DannyC]

just look everywhere else except where your going and you'll be fine

[Wakou]

Still reckon take the test in a truck FTW, being so much higher up makes you look a long way ahead, and accelerating is such a long process, you anticipate more, to avoid braking if possible. Seriously, a couple of lessons in a 7.5 Tonne would do you good.. Also some lessons on a motorcycle reinforce that anticipation is a key to good driving

[s4ooter]

lol just saw this thread, i have my driving test monday.

Took a test 7 years ago and failed before going to uni, now am back doing it again.

Took my theory and passed then booked a week off work and paid for a block of 15 hours, which i am doing 3 hours a day at the mo.

Figured that would be the best way but after 9 hours i find myself bored as hell with my instructor having to egg me on as he can see the boredom setting in.

Luckily for me, the manouvers i seem to have nailed down from day 1 which is cool, i just have bad habits like using the gears to slow down (big no-no) and not holding the wheel correctly, i still think it dangerous to hold it the way they say, whilst changing to sencond and moving round a roundabout.

Practise test tomorrow and then sunday is my day of rest beofre the big day.

come on!! lol

[Dice Man]

How did your test go?

My instructor just told me he's not going to give me any more lessons, and that I should cancel the test. This is now the second time an instructor has dropped me, the last time being when I was 18. For like the last 10 lessons at some point during the lesson he's told me to do something, I've asked him why, and he's basically said "Right if you don't want to listen to anything I say these lessons are fucking pointless!" Just because I want to know why one play is more optimal than another apparently that means I'm not listening to him. For example I pulled up on a long road to do the 3-point turn, and I remember him saying to find somewhere to do it with no "street furniture" like signs or lampposts on the pavement that we might hit, and also not in peoples' drives. So anyway there's nowhere on this road without a drive or some kind of sign on the pavement so I know no matter where I stop he's going to find some problem with it. So I stop at this place adjacent to a lamppost which is a full yard onto the pavement, and apparently "I told you not to park somewhere like that! What's the point of these lessons if you're not going to listen to me?!" And I'm like "How is that lamppost going to affect our 3-point turn? If we're going to hit it I think we'd know because half the car would already be on the pavement." All I'm doing when I say this is fishing for an actual reason why that lamppost could affect us. I know he's actually right because he's the qualified person, I just want to know why what is right is right. What, am I supposed to go my whole driving life with the belief "Don't do anything within a yard of a lamppost. Don't know why though."? That's ridiculous. If I'm given an actual reason why it's a bad idea then I won't actually have to remember this and hundreds of other pseudo-rules.

Another thing is that at the start of the lessons he made me learn and remember all these rules about how to do manoeuvres, i.e. all these reference points that tell you when to put half a turn on or something. And then once I'd actually learned them it turned out that they actually didn't really help you in most circumstances and you should just use your judgment to get the job done which was how I started them.

I'm still pretty convinced I can pass the test. All the other tests I've ever taken I've always made sure that I'm only fully prepared to pass it only on the day itself. If you're prepared a week or even a day before then you're not on your peak for the actual test itself. So anyway, my friends could hardly believe I'd been dropped by the instructor the first time round, so this is going to be tough to live down. Ah well.

[PokerWoody]

I went through 5 instructors and didn't pass my test until I learned to shut my mouth and do what they said no matter how fucking ridiculous I thought they were being. Man, I fucking hate fucking driving instructors. They are all such failures.

In short, shut your mouth and do whatever they say and you'll no longer have to deal with them. They can not answer any of your questions anyway cause they are all spackers.

[Raiser]

Dice... This is the one thing that you can not over-think about! Do not think! Do not analysis!

Just do what ever the driving instructor tells you do to, even if you disagree with it! He will teach you how to pass the test and you can learn to drive in your own time.

Do not even argue with this post as i am right. lol

Quoting myself rocks. And my advice stills stands and is 100% correct.