Here are some tips and rules for safe driving, which for some reason instructors in a driving school forget to tell about:
# It will not be superfluous to find a large flat area, and try your car in extreme braking and acceleration. Rock it, feel the limit. Nothing will happen to the car.
# Track, turn left. You stand and let oncoming cars pass. DO NOT TURN the steering wheel to the left. Hit from behind and you will find yourself under the wagon. Keep the steering wheel straight.
# If you grab the curb or snow bruster on the left (for example, near the median) or on the right (shoulder), DON'T DARE pull the steering wheel in the opposite direction.
With a dead grip on the steering wheel, without changing the position of the foot on the gas pedal, compensate for the drift to the side. The car will lose speed and return to the road. Otherwise, you will be abruptly thrown in the opposite direction.
# At night, when passing unlit and little-used intersections, FLASH WITH THE HIGH BEAM. A driver moving on a different road will notice you and slow down.
# When avoiding potholes, watch out for the car in front. Her experience of passing obstacles will help you.
# Be careful when passing long turns along the INSIDE radius (for you it is internal, for oncoming ones it is external). If an oncoming car driving along the outer radius starts skidding, then it will not go into a ditch, but in 90% of cases, after convulsive movements of the oncoming driver, it will fly into your forehead. For you, a ditch is often the best solution.
# When you change lanes, speed up! The car in front of which you want to wedge, you must see FULLY in the side mirror.
# DO NOT RIDE in neutral. You lose the ability to accelerate, and the brake is not always an option.
# DO NOT BRAKE when turning. In turn - only controlled acceleration.
# Always leave a fallback. If in doubt about overtaking, go into the oncoming lane and drag behind until you are 100% sure. So quickly, in which case, return to your lane.
# Making a staggered overtaking on the track and wedged into the stream, turn off the speed in the OPPOSITE lane. One of the most common mistakes: when overtaking a convoy at high speed, the driver, seeing that he does not have time, begins to wedge into his lane and at the same time brake heavily. And there is rutting ... there are a lot of cars around, and he was dragged. Once again - EQUALIZE THE SPEED in the OPPOSITE LANE! Same time, but 1000 times safer!
# If you see that the oncoming car does not have time to overtake, turn on the right “turn signal” and pull over to the side of the road IN ADVANCE. You should not flash your headlights, there may be a person driving for the first day.
# If the car drifts/skids, act firmly and smoothly, WITHOUT FUSING. The process does not develop instantly and, accordingly, does not like sudden and convulsive movements. And learn what "demolition" and "skidding" are, what actions need to be taken on different drives. There is only one hopeless situation, it is a skid on the front-wheel drive on the descent, in other cases everything can be corrected.
# Do not rely on the exchange rate stabilization DURING RAIN. If a stall occurs and you “swim” (hydroplaning effect) the system will NOT help. She just doesn't understand what's going on. Don't rely on her at all. She is definitely a thing! And it will help in most cases, but the electronics are imperfect ...
# If there is a traffic jam on the “oncoming lane”, remember that behind every standing car there can be a NEGLIGENT pedestrian, for whom - “look, everyone is standing, I’ll go and cross the path.”
# DO NOT FLY in the left lane if all cars are parked on the right. Most likely, they let the pedestrian pass. It is your car that can be his last ...
# On the side of the road a person with children or children, slow down - there are no options. BRAKES. I saw it once with my own eyes. Intuition helped me. And there are no downstream neighbors. 4 years old. Girl. And her grandmother held her hand. Do you know how small children run? It’s absurd, they shake their hands, all the relatives of the house are touched by this. That's so awkward, right under the VAZ 2109. Called an ambulance. Saved!!!
# Animals on the road. Himself with experience, but the other day I rolled the dog (60 km / h, an empty middle lane, but the dog ran out of the darkness to cut across). He called the Ministry of Emergency Situations to pull him out of the bumper. Reviewed the video recorder. NO CHANCE. There were no options. Didn't even slow down. It's a pity for the dog, but it rushed right under the wheels.
Why am I... Keep your cool. Before you save the dog, make sure you don't "blow" a couple of poles, a nearby car, and a pedestrian on the side of the road. And then the dog will happily run further, and you ... yes, I saw a video recently, where they saved the dog at the cost of OWN life.
# The reason for everything is SPEED. Show me an accident about which you can’t say: “Damn, I would have been driving a little slower, and nothing would have happened!” (exotic, like — forgot to put on the handbrake, does not count).
Be careful!
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