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Learning to drive

  • 30-06-2016 7:29pm
    #1
    LordHypnos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 77 ✭✭


    hi all,
    , I'm learning to drive. any tips and tricks?


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  • #2
    pandaa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭pandaa


    Test approaching soon. Appreciate any tips to help.

    - Is Push Pull method required to be done on test. I cross hands?

    - Reversing around corner : I always park it very wide and take very long amount of time. Can this alone fail me?

    Shall I lower left mirror to keep track of kerb?

    - any other tips.


  • #3
    naasrd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,408 ✭✭✭naasrd


    LordHypnos wrote: »
    hi all,
    , I'm learning to drive. any tips and tricks?

    There's a Irish guy on youtube, I found his videos very helpful. Passed my test last month and I put some of it down to watching his videos. The test is fine if you can drive, where you get caught out is not using mirrors/observation. Never forget to glance at left mirror from time to time, always look over right shoulder when moving off. Always.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7JXBY62K_gL297TcBvaojQ


  • #4
    Goose76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭Goose76


    Love the videos from that guy too. There's also some good UK-based channels 'Conquer Driving' and 'Advance Driving School'.

    Just remember that these videos are no substitute for practice, practice, practice. I was so bad with driving anxiety a few months back that I focused way too much on videos and theory while actually not really practising actual driving at all :D needless to say, that wasn't a good plan.

    But these videos can definitely help alongside as regular, consistent diving practice. Particularly if you have the type of brain that learns more through note taking and understanding why things are done a certain way, instead of just doing them.


  • #5
    QJJQJDE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭QJJQJDE


    Goose76 wrote: »
    Love the videos from that guy too. There's also some good UK-based channels 'Conquer Driving' and 'Advance Driving School'.

    Just remember that these videos are no substitute for practice, practice, practice. I was so bad with driving anxiety a few months back that I focused way too much on videos and theory while actually not really practising actual driving at all :D needless to say, that wasn't a good plan.

    But these videos can definitely help alongside as regular, consistent diving practice. Particularly if you have the type of brain that learns more through note taking and understanding why things are done a certain way, instead of just doing them.

    Conquer driving is single-handedly teaching me so much about driving, that I went through his entire catalogue of videos watching videos about things that might never apply to me. So well explained and shown. My driving has massively improved taking on his advice


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