Advanced Driving Hub

While you do do it naturally, to be good at it, it needs teaching. Once an Associate understands how they corner they are much better placed to actually do it and their cornering improves. Being able to apply additional counter/positive steering when needed can be the difference between getting roun...

Ah, right. Of course revs are different, but the sequence of controls is the same. Reading too deeply.

It appears, to me, that they are trying to do hill starts on the flat; something that irked me something rotten when I was teaching ab initio. The problem lay in that the pupil would attempt this method of starting off irrespective of the slope, including downhill. Huh? Hill start on the flat. Care...

I would say until a particular bit of tech has a major foothold, probably in the 90+% range, someone shouldn't be taught to rely on any such feature. They are being taught to drive, not to drive a specific make/brand. Currently we only split licences by manual and automatic but the lines are getting...

This (YouTube Video) is what happens when you learn in a diesel and then mummy/daddy buy you a nice economical petrol shopping trolley that can't pull the skin off a rice pudding.

Here we go again. Every year people have to make a fuss to get verges cut. Today I was trying to join the A12 from Foxhall Road, Ipswich and the view from the approach is blocked by really long grass/weeds. We had the same last night joining the A12 at Blythburgh from the Beccles road. There'll be l...

Astraist, what analogies do you use? I use/like the toothpaste one as there are no steps. You start to sqeeze gently, continuing to a firmer/stronger sqeeze and then you have to ease off (otherwise it keeps coming out of the tube). The ease off avoiding those jerky stops, and on bikes, bouncy front ...

My daughter's Toyota IQ want's you in 5th just before 30mp (if you drive with a sensitive foot). Then we wonder why everyone drives pressing either the accelerator or brake, like one has to be in use at all times!

Squeezing a tube of toothpaste is the analogy I use (which is much nicer than one of the others I've heard in the biker circles ).

Harlow Council have responded to the internet storm. Injunction Clarification Clear as mud then. Still see no need for it given existing police powers. What it still does is leave many people liable for a criminal charge if the council/police decide to use the injunction for a specific occurence/eve...