Advanced Driving Hub

in the case of a simple answering of the phone through a hands-free system, I would expect to consciously choose whether the conditions meant I would answer or not / I would consciously choose to make it a brief conversation and I would consciously choose to focus primarily on the road and give sec...

Testing in actual cars has produced similar results for the most part, as did investigating collisions before which the driver was on the phone. I'm afraid there is little doubt that talking on the phone (regardless of whether it's held by hand or not) is a major distraction, unlike (according the m...

Dunno what you're talkin about. Thus far, it had only rained once here, and a few minutes of light shower at that.

As for drinking from a bottle as its in front of your face you cant see where you are going. Use a straw. Bloody cagers :racing: You still run the risk of aspirating whatever it is you are drinking because of a surprise or a bump. Drinking while driving is to be limited to when the vehicle is stati...

however I don't think that anyone is arguing to allow mobile phones other than hands-free and (without knowing the stats) presumably there are not overwhelming stats to show that hands-free use is causing accidents / killing people - even if it is not optimal... I am sure that we all agree that opt...

A distracted driver who is not paying attention may take two seconds or more to react. Therefore at 30mph our distracted driver who reacts in two seconds travels 88ft before reacting. Our driver who concentrates and reacts in .75 sec. (Highway Code typical reation time) The Highway Code Reaction Ti...

Interesting to see that even he runs out of steering occasionally (at the extremes he is driving at). Watch the modern rally cars and that doesn't happen as they have much quicker racks?. They can lock to lock without letting go. Yes, they have shorter racks. In vintage rallying and particularly in...

Not so much "turning" but rather "steering." I normally start to steer well in advance of the road actually curving. If steering is initiated very slowly, this will not result in the car moving much away from the line desired for a view position, but will change the attitude of t...

I had an interesting example this morning - coming out of a village on a blind-ish right bend, I positioned to the left to open up the view - standard AD practice... the motorbike behind me seemed to take that as an invitation to overtake me in my lane on the blind right-hand bend. I admit that is ...

If I'm right about all that - and if we would include safety as one of the criteria for 'better' - then there seems to me to be little if any doubt. True. It's all a question of priorities and where to put one's values of what good driving is. Simply put, if it's safe, who gives a flying $@u€ as to...