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A friend of mine is about to start driving soon (they are very young). I don't want to preach but want them to enjoy the freedom, safely. If you knew a driver about to start driving on their own, what would be your top tips? my suggestions are
Enjoy your independence
Have further training on motorways
The more people you have on board the worst the car handles
Make sure you check your vehicle i.e tyre tread depth and pressures
Any other suggestions???
Enjoy your independence
Have further training on motorways
The more people you have on board the worst the car handles
Make sure you check your vehicle i.e tyre tread depth and pressures
Any other suggestions???
Although difficult not to I don't think I'd bother trying to tell them anything. The chances are they wont listen anyway & will still have to make their own mistakes & hopefully learn from them.
I would however want to take them for a drive on a motorway to point out the fundamentals which I have done with a few young people, but if I wasn't very experienced on motorways I would pay someone who is to take them.
I would however want to take them for a drive on a motorway to point out the fundamentals which I have done with a few young people, but if I wasn't very experienced on motorways I would pay someone who is to take them.
I was a pretty typical young male driver and unfortunately the more I was warned/told about my driving the more I got on my high horse about "knowing what I was doing". Then I slid into a tree and wrote the car off!
As Jason statham says in "the mechanic":"good judgement comes from experience, most of which comes from bad judgement".
As Jason statham says in "the mechanic":"good judgement comes from experience, most of which comes from bad judgement".
I'm 20 and had lots of interesting miles over the past 2 and a half years or so.
Main thing that woke me up was reading on here to imagine yourself coming the other way.
Told this to my best friend last year/ start of this year and he agreed its a good thing to go by.
Unfortunately he didn't take on the advice and passed in an accident earlier in the year.
Since he died I've not done a single stupid thing. Can drive quickly, but responsibly.
Don't learn it the hard way. This isn't a sympathy post or anything but would rather he saw this than go through what I, wills parents, friends etc have gone though.
Crash photo:
Main thing that woke me up was reading on here to imagine yourself coming the other way.
Told this to my best friend last year/ start of this year and he agreed its a good thing to go by.
Unfortunately he didn't take on the advice and passed in an accident earlier in the year.
Since he died I've not done a single stupid thing. Can drive quickly, but responsibly.
Don't learn it the hard way. This isn't a sympathy post or anything but would rather he saw this than go through what I, wills parents, friends etc have gone though.
Crash photo:
Nigel Worc's said:
Try to interest them in advanced training as soon as they are eligeable.
You can't give them experience, I think training is the next best thing.
You can't give them experience, I think training is the next best thing.
Riley Blue said:
Don't think that when you pass your test you know everything there is to learn about driving.
Very few would go to a gym for a month and then try and lift the same as a pro bodybuilder (or even a rugby player) & even if they did try to, they'd realise pretty quickly how far away they are & adjust back to reality. Yet, the vast majority of 17yo pass their test, think they're a non-paying F1 driver or best of the best Class 1 and won't believe otherwise. They also fail to realise that they aren't anything remotely close to after the inevitable first reminder.
Accept where you are & how much you don't know, learn all you can and play the long (or even longish) game. Oh, and go out with someone who has a decent idea of what they're doing and who will explain things, it will open you're eyes.
DukeDickson said:
Nigel Worc's said:
Try to interest them in advanced training as soon as they are eligeable.
You can't give them experience, I think training is the next best thing.
You can't give them experience, I think training is the next best thing.
Riley Blue said:
Don't think that when you pass your test you know everything there is to learn about driving.
Very few would go to a gym for a month and then try and lift the same as a pro bodybuilder (or even a rugby player) & even if they did try to, they'd realise pretty quickly how far away they are & adjust back to reality. Yet, the vast majority of 17yo pass their test, think they're a non-paying F1 driver or best of the best Class 1 and won't believe otherwise. They also fail to realise that they aren't anything remotely close to after the inevitable first reminder.
Accept where you are & how much you don't know, learn all you can and play the long (or even longish) game. Oh, and go out with someone who has a decent idea of what they're doing and who will explain things, it will open you're eyes.
i did night and m way training straight after passing my test and then a couple of skid pan sessions, followed by a bit of road craft
then a couple of years later a decent amount of track training
FamilyDub said:
Tell him to take a breath & calm down If he starts a sentence with the words 'watch this', whilst in the car with mates.
It won't usually end well.
I nearly said "watch this!" the other day. I managed to stop myself, that phrase is cursed. It won't usually end well.
Tell them to rock up to parties and things wearing driving gloves, and announcing they just need to check under the bonnet, "because she's running a bit hot". Nobody will ever want a lift, therefore they do not become somebody who is relied upon and is friends with people for the wrong reasons.
ETA: Perhaps buying an old, large, slow, wafty car will help - you can't really go too fast, nor do you want too. (Unless you are me
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