Blind spots are one of many blind areas surrounding your car. A quick scan to your right or left, turning your chin to your shoulder, some call a should chec,k can confirm that the area is empty before you move in that direction. Its purpose is to complete part of your 360 degree awareness specifically […]
Clearing Core Beliefs when learning to drive is critical to building safe understandings.
Panic takes complete control. Panic is lightning fast. Panic can detect danger in the blink of an eye. Panic erases all short-term memory. Panic has only one objective – ESCAPE NOW! Abandon all thinking. Abandon all calm. Abandon everything. Go as fast as possible in ANY DIRECTION away from the impending danger. Hit every possible […]
Don’t look at the parked cars tight on both sides as we drive down the narrow residential street. So then, what do you look at? How about aiming for the middle of the empty space between the cars? Don’t think of failing versus focusing on the primary task of driving properly. 90% to 95% of […]
STEEL As we drive down the residential road at 30 or 40 km/h, we see a long line of parked cars filling the entire block to our right- not a perfect line, with several vehicles jutting out a bit into our lane. PAINT To our left is that perfectly straight yellow centre line separating us […]
And why so many training schools avoid it. Big Vision Highway driving requires big vision or long vision. Looking way ahead of you to spot merging lanes and road signs help you set up in the proper route well forth of the changeover. Highway also requires a smooth, relaxed grip on the wheel, ensuring nothing […]
I just got home after a driving lesson with a client I trained 3 years ago when I first arrived in Vancouver. I was with another school at the time but now they have 2 years of driving and are ready to attempt that big final second N test. What did they show me today? […]
-2 minutes into the start of the driving exam -turns right onto a busy 50 km/h single-lane busy road with an average flow speed of 60 km/h or more -immediately, you follow the car ahead of you 1/2 second to 3/4 second following distance -the rear car is also 1/1 to 3/4 of a second […]
30 mph (48 km/h) 48 km/h (30 mph) This is a very tough way to fail a driver’s test but it happens. Recently a perfect score sheet with remarks like GOOD DRIVING, and GREAT BLIND SPOT CHECKS, still resulted in a fail! TOO SLOW! Before explaining this failure, it’s best you review two previous posts discussing the […]
Someone close to me recently banged into a car directly in front of them, their first crash in 40-plus years. They were surprised and felt ashamed because, of course, they had always placed themselves in the good driver category. But today they saw themselves as bad, for the first time in a very long time. […]
riding my bike of course, this decision is entirely my choice most mornings I would rise early, with a relaxed peaceful and beautiful bike right around Coal Harbour and into Stanley Park watching the geese, the stunning morning sunrise and the amazing scenery was a daily refreshment for me but this all changed over the […]
SETUP 1. Approaching any turn, roadway or intersection first needs to be scanned to ensure it’s legal, you know where the tracking lanes and lines are, in order to set up your speed and positioning. 2. Plus you now know when and how to best warn cars to your rear, brake lights red and signal […]
High beams in China while driving on the highways, especially at night was blinding. This huge difficulty was so bad that I would plan travels to ensure that I was never on high-speed two-lane roadways at night. Oncoming traffic with these new bright white headlights would instantly blind me the moment they connected with my […]
A while back I wrote about heavy traffic. Today I talk about why it’s very difficult to train someone in this kind of congestion and how it does not help your test day preparation. Recently a client booked a rushed session the day prior to their driving test. This kind of request is very common […]
Turn from the wrong lane – Red mark indicates where the driver turned left from, illegal and FAIL. Must go into the double-turn lane to make the left turn. SPEED over 30K zone – speeding in the 30 kmh zone is a FAIL Late shoulder checks – must check the lateral space beside the car […]
