Driving is amazing!!

Congrats Matt

been on the M6 yet, one tip don't do what some girl did in front of me a couple of weeks ago, she went down the sliproad at 40mph and didn't accellerate, she couldn't find a gap at that speed so when she got to the end where it turns into the hard shouldershe stopped and sat there with her indicator on :bonk:

Oh and don't sit in the blind spot of foreign trucks, near the front of the cab door, they can't see you because they're on the wrong side of the cab, when they change lanes if you're there they'll spin you up the motorway.
 
ALLWAYS check your blindspot when manouvering on the motorway, whether youre moving at 50 or 90. When I took my pass plus, I was accelerating up a slip road onto the motorway and my instructor told me to look around and make sure I was clear. I checked just my mirrors, clear. then he reminded me to check my blindspot, and sure enough, there was one of Mr Stobarts green wagons in my way!

try and avoid having your mates in the car with you for a while, they will put pressure on you for speed, and they will distract you.

LOOK OUT FOR BIKES. they come out of nowhere, even the sensible ones.

Take your eyes off the road to stare at that pretty blonde, and you can gurantee the car in front will brake heavily.

Leave lots of room.

Remember that you can accelerate out of dangerous situations, rather than just hitting the brakes.

Wear your seat belt, and make sure your passengers do too, we'v all seen the advert.

And make sure you allways drive with your system up and you're windows down ;)

have fun.
 
Rozzy said:
And make sure you allways drive with your system up and you're windows down ;)
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but not past my house, thank you very much, hoodlums with their loud music that goes BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM driving around :bonk:


matt wouldnt dare drive around with his windows down and his stereo up, hes a massive MIKA fan and ive heard thats all he plays.... people would get the wrong idea :lol:
 
Matt, word of advice and meant in the kindest way.
The first 6 months is the most dangerous time. I've lost track of the young drivers I've known who are technically very proficient, but who just don't have the experience or perhaps cynicism to avoid the other idiots out there. Don't let over confidence get at you. Far better to look like a wally and survive than wrap it around a lamp post.

Congratulations on passing, and I REALLY hope you enjoy your driving. Just be careful.

cheers
 
Well done Matt, now you have passed your test you can start to learn to drive. By that I mean learn to "read" the road which only comes from experience. After a time you will come to be able to anticipate what may happen in advance, and take precautions beforehand. Remember its better to arrive late than not at all.

It may not make much sense at the moment, but having driven for 47 years I have seen and witness some horrendously stupid driving, so take care.

Realspeed
 
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Driving is great, I still love it after 5 years of (touch wood) accident free motoring, even though I'm in a company box-mobile now rather than my old Z4 :(

Here's something to remember though, which I've learned from the squillions of motorway miles I've done :

Checking your blind spot before maneuvering is important, but not as important as knowing when you are in someone else's blind spot. Know where every car around you is, and assume that if someone is in a lane either side of you and about 5 metres ahead, they cannot see you and will pull out straight into you. Assume every other driver on the road is not paying attention and not checking their surroundings :P

Never swerve to avoid an obstacle thinks unless you are 100% sure there are no other cars around you and there is no other option, just hit the brakes. If this means you have to pull a pheasant out of your grille, so be it. It's preferable to someone pulling you out of your dashboard. I grew in t'country and it's amazing how often someone swerving to avoid wildlife results in a head-on.
 
mid_gen said:
If this means you have to pull a pheasant out of your grille
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I had to pull one out of my engine bay once. But not before it'd destroyed my number plate and filled my grille with feathers :bang:
 
I hit a pheasant at 60 in my z4 a while back. There was an almighty bang, but I looked in my mirror and saw a pheasant dissapearing into the undergrowth, though it was just some seriously hard pheasant.

Noticed I was getting a few looks on the rest of the drive home (assumed it was the usual people mouthing '****'), got back and looked at the front of the car. The pheasant I saw in my mirror was clearly a different one, as this one had smashed through my front grill, but in such a way that it had popped back into place, sealing the pheasant in in front of the radiatior, except for it's head which was hanging out of grille.

Had to virtually disassemble the front of the car to get it out, luckily it didn't puncture the radiator :)
 
I love driving too, really. :D But it's too tiring. Well, it's the truth. I just started to learn how to drive through my father's knowledge. Well, when i really grow up, I'll own a car and I'll drive it all the way to.. hmm... the farthest I could go. :D ^^
 
mid_gen said:
Here's something to remember though, which I've learned from the squillions of motorway miles I've done :

Checking your blind spot before maneuvering is important, but not as important as knowing when you are in someone else's blind spot. Know where every car around you is, and assume that if someone is in a lane either side of you and about 5 metres ahead, they cannot see you and will pull out straight into you. Assume every other driver on the road is not paying attention and not checking their surroundings :P
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Hear hear, sound advice indeed:thumbs:

Always assume everyone else can't see you:eek:


oh and congratulations too:D
 
And if you`re on a motorway, be wary of the blindspot on foreign/LHD lorries. It`s just as you're level with the cab/front axle. I`ve lost count of the number of RTC`s I`ve attended on motorways where a lorry's pulled out and sideswiped a car, a couple with really serious concequences. They just don't know you're there.

If in doubt, make reasonable progress on the overtake. DON'T sit up the side of them.
 
cason said:
well Mat I have been driving for over 30 years, I still love it! take care and enjoy :thumbs:
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Iv'e been driving for over 40 years. No longer love it, as such. Certainly don't dislike it either and it sure beats public transport.

I took early retirement from railway employment nearly 10 years ago and have free travel by rail. On my last day I took the train (late, dirty and complete with chavs with their feet on seats) to where my car was parked.

Never been on a train or in a station since. Car for me.
 
well done matt, Now you just need to really start learning to drive ;)
 
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