Favourite Advanced Driving Quotations.

[henrycrun]

Always expect the unexpected

[time2react]

"And the best way to achieve the required following distance is to say aloud that famous quote, Only a C**t hits the car in front"
Actually used during a progress test.

[RabD]

A couple that spring to mind with me.

"You look with your eyes, not with your foot" (when overtaking)

"The right foot goes up just as easily as it goes down" (when approaching another vehicle)

"An average drive will say "why did he pull out in front of me" a good driver will have seen it coming before the other guy decided to pull out in front" (or words to that effect anyways)

"always wait for your own space to open up before comitting" (When going right at traffic lights, etc)

And that's about all I can think of right now

[5.0ltr]

An 'old school' Police instructor from my past used to just say,' Chapter one, paragraph six.'

Which refers to the previous Roadcraft.

'Quiet efficiency is the hall mark of the expert'

Which I still use myself as it seems to sum it up just nicely.

[defblade]

time2react said:

"And the best way to achieve the required following distance is to say aloud that famous quote, Only a C**t hits the car in front"

That's replacing "only a fool breaks the 2 second rule" ..... in my head, at least

[GravelBen]

defblade said:

That's replacing "only a fool breaks the 2 second rule" ..... in my head, at least

I remember back when that slogan was used for a road-safety campaign here, spearheaded by Peter Brock. He also put a sticker on the back of his race car saying "please stay 2 seconds behind this car".

That was back when they had campaigns based on driving standards rather than a blind obsession with speed

[WeirdNeville]

"happy with that" springs to mind. I've heard it used countless times by advanced drivers on TV and in real life. One of the universal advanced driving phrases.

The one the sticks out was during a high speed section on an A-road, with speeds approaching the tonne:

"Of course, if you were to hit the central curb at these speeds, you would lose control of the car, it would roll, and we would all die. So don't do it, okay?"

[ironictwist]

My driving instructor who of course used to run about with plods many moons ago:

"I know this may sound like a cliché, but to go faster you have to slow down"

Amazing guy. I should give him a call some time, take him out for a hoon.

[AstraVXR]

"im going to change up a gear because im cruising not using"
and
"what are you doing changing gear now?? you still have 500 revs to go intil the redline"

[BOF]

On positioning...

Don't GO there - BE there!

BOF

[EmmaP]

"I've/You've paid for the whole road so I'm going to use it."*

*Only where legal to do so of course

"Assume that other road users are idiots."

Edited by EmmaP on Friday 14th March 12:36

[gordonb]

Was told a story about somebody doing an ambulance advanced driving course, where the student kept looking to the gearstick to check which gear was engaged only to be told repeatedly by the instructor, in a broad scots accent "I, you're still in f@*&?ing fourth"

[p1esk]

WeirdNeville said:

"happy with that" springs to mind. I've heard it used countless times by advanced drivers on TV and in real life. One of the universal advanced driving phrases.

The one the sticks out was during a high speed section on an A-road, with speeds approaching the tonne:

"Of course, if you were to hit the central curb at these speeds, you would lose control of the car, it would roll, and we would all die. So don't do it, okay?"

Quite so, but I wouldn't call 62 mph a high speed. Now if you had said ton....that would have been a different matter. These metric tons are seriously devalued you know, compared with our good solid British ones.

Best wishes all,
Dave.

[p1esk]

EmmaP said:

"I've/You've paid for the whole road so I'm going to use it."*

*Only where legal (and more importantly safe) to do so of course

"Assume that other road users are idiots."

Edited by EmmaP on Friday 14th March 12:36

EFA.

....and incidentally I don't care to regard other road users as being idiots, because I like to think they'll be able to help me out when I make a balls of things.

Best wishes all,
Jennifer.

[erdnase]

5.0ltr said:

'Quiet efficiency is the hall mark of the expert'

I like that one!

A (cheesy) one I heard was, when approaching a roundabout:

"Approaching the roundabout and starting to slow - able to stop, but planning to go".

or..

"Approaching the rounabout, going fast as fck - if I'm able to stop, it'll be all down to luck" (I made that one up!)

Erd

[Chris71]

GravelBen said:

"Always be prepared to meet yourself coming the other way"


or


"Assume all other drivers are idiots"

Personally I treat those as the same thing.

In honesty I think I'd go with "think twice, do once" as already mentioned.

[Strangely Brown]

erdnase said:

"Approaching the roundabout and starting to slow - able to stop, but planning to go".

That should be, "planning to stop, but looking to go."

and then you can always add on to the end...

"can't take a gear until we know."

Edited by Strangely Brown on Friday 14th March 14:08

[EmmaP]

p1esk said:

EmmaP] said:

"Assume that other road users are idiots."

....and incidentally I don't care to regard other road users as being idiots, because I like to think they'll be able to help me out when I make a balls of things.

I meant, expect them to do the unexpected. (You get a gut instinct for these things.) Clearly not everyone on the road is an idiot but people do do rather stupid things at times. My comment is about self-preservation and avoiding an unfortunate 'incident'.

Edited by EmmaP on Friday 14th March 14:11

[p1esk]

EmmaP said:

p1esk said:

EmmaP] said:

"Assume that other road users are idiots."

....and incidentally I don't care to regard other road users as being idiots, because I like to think they'll be able to help me out when I make a balls of things.

I meant, expect them to do the unexpected. (You get a gut instinct for these things.) Clearly not everyone on the road is an idiot but people do do rather stupid things at times. My comment is about self-preservation and avoiding an unfortunate 'incident'.

Fair enough. I know what you mean about the 'gut instinct' thing. It's nice when you can sense that somebody is about to do something odd, so you hang back waiting for them to do it, and then they do it, and then we all carry on again quite happily.

Best wishes all,
Dave.

[ironictwist]

p1esk said:

EmmaP said:

p1esk said:

EmmaP] said:

"Assume that other road users are idiots."

....and incidentally I don't care to regard other road users as being idiots, because I like to think they'll be able to help me out when I make a balls of things.

I meant, expect them to do the unexpected. (You get a gut instinct for these things.) Clearly not everyone on the road is an idiot but people do do rather stupid things at times. My comment is about self-preservation and avoiding an unfortunate 'incident'.

Fair enough. I know what you mean about the 'gut instinct' thing. It's nice when you can sense that somebody is about to do something odd, so you hang back waiting for them to do it, and then they do it, and then we all carry on again quite happily.

Best wishes all,
Dave.

Oh indeed...

cue rolling of eyes or mumbles of "I knew you would do THAT! I just KNEW it!"