Re: Most Drivers Don't Know How to Stop

"Harry Bloomfield" <harry.m1byt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:mn.ad067d99e46342a4.86812@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Silk was thinking very hard :
Question for you: are you saying that no one needs to be taught anything and an "aptitude" is all you need, or is it just driving?

Hard to judge for others(1), but I would have thought it would be easy or obvious for anyone to self themselves this obvious technique. It is only common sense and a 'feel for it'.

(1) From a purely personal point of view, I have self taught myself (I would guess) 95% of what I know generally. For example - I taught myself digital logic and how to write software, in the early 1970's. I bought the books, read up on the subjects and practised. I was interested enough to teach myself and interest is always the key to any learning.

Well that's very laudable and I'm very impressed - speaking as someone who finds it extremely difficult to teach myself anything and needs to be shown (often repeatedly) how do it. If I try to teach myself a skill, I end up making the same mistakes over and over again and need outside help to jog me out of that cycle and to comment/criticise on each performance so I actually improve.

Sometimes even that isn't enough. Even after being taught how to reverse a trailer, I was one of several people on my IAM course who still couldn't get the hang of it and kept nearly jack-knifing the trailer or sending it all over the place - anywhere except in a straight line! Maybe I'm just a slow learner or maybe I have a mental block to doing it back-to-front, learning where to switch over from counter-steering to steering the right way, and how much to steer based on what I can see.

I still find it difficult to reverse using only my mirrors, whereas reversing by looking over my shoulder is much easier when I can see rear and both sides the right way round through the rear/side windows rather than mirror-image of only the left and right sides of car. If I use my mirrors I can see if I start to drift too close to one side or the other but I have to stop and think "so which way do I have to steer to correct this".

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