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Automatic Driving Test Prep

  • 23-06-2014 9:27pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭


    Hi, Can anyone point me towards any good resources online for driving an automatic transmission car and preparing for the driving test.

    I'm having some confusion over the procedure of handbrake, neutral etc when stopping at lights or in traffic. Do I move to neutral at all? Can anyone help?


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Do you have a driving instructor? If not, I would recommend you get one! They will be able to best answer all of these questions, and can guide you through the learning process. But in terms of the actual question at hand...

    There are different trains of thought on the whole, move from D, to N when stopped.

    Personally, I would always leave it in D, unless parking, in which case you put it in P! The car is designed to work in D whether moving or not. Applying the foot brake if stopped for a short time is more than adequate. And if stopped for slightly longer simply apply the hand brake.

    However others would tell you to make use of Neutral. In which case, I would only do so if you are stopped for a prolonged ( >10->15 seconds) time. And the procedure would to apply the hand brake, and shift the car into neutral.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭Chrisled


    Hi, Thanks for your reply. The problem I have is conflicting answers from different instructors. The method I am more comfortable with is exactly as you have pointed out. As on my car the gears are just in a straight line of R N D; I feel like (though it would be a foolish mistake) it would be easy to move to R instead of D when stopped at a light. It's not like on a manual where you may have to pull the gear stick up to get to reverse.

    But the other answer I got says that you need to move to N and use the hand brake, in case you were hit from behind and the car took off as it's still in D.

    Thanks fro your reply though.


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