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Sep. 12th, 2009 11:09 amDriving lesson. Not at all bad this week, despite stalling on the first reverse leg of the turn in the road again through not applying enough gas, mounting the kerb on one corner, and failing to see a car coming up behind during the reverse round a corner, from spending too much time looking in the side mirror and not enough out of the back window.
We went on a stretch of back road in Stubbington that was new to me, and that had the round white road sign with a black bend sinister. "What's that sign?" Peter asked me.
"No speed limit." I remembered that was what the sign was called, though of course I knew that wasn't to be taken literally.
"National speed limit," he corrected me.
* Marius and Eponine do a double take and exclaim "Mon dieu, sacre bleu, quelle coincidence" *
So I was able to show I knew that was 60 mph. Cheers, Daniel.
At the end Peter said the main thing I had to work on now on open road driving was spotting things earlier and reacting quicker. While I'd seen the red brake lights of the car in front of me at one point and slowed down myself, he said I should have seen the actual cause of the guy slowing down, which was a car pulling out of a parking space from the right-hand side. He also reckoned I was still approaching roundabouts too fast and needed to start looking right, then forward, then right again a little earlier, to be able to decide in good time whether I'd have to go or wait.
All in all, though, not bad.
We went on a stretch of back road in Stubbington that was new to me, and that had the round white road sign with a black bend sinister. "What's that sign?" Peter asked me.
"No speed limit." I remembered that was what the sign was called, though of course I knew that wasn't to be taken literally.
"National speed limit," he corrected me.
* Marius and Eponine do a double take and exclaim "Mon dieu, sacre bleu, quelle coincidence" *
So I was able to show I knew that was 60 mph. Cheers, Daniel.
At the end Peter said the main thing I had to work on now on open road driving was spotting things earlier and reacting quicker. While I'd seen the red brake lights of the car in front of me at one point and slowed down myself, he said I should have seen the actual cause of the guy slowing down, which was a car pulling out of a parking space from the right-hand side. He also reckoned I was still approaching roundabouts too fast and needed to start looking right, then forward, then right again a little earlier, to be able to decide in good time whether I'd have to go or wait.
All in all, though, not bad.
