Introduction: Driving is a science as well as an art with many intricacies involved therein. Beginning from opening the car door (Driver’s Side) for the first time till confidently driving on the city streets and highways, keeping foremost into mind the safety of life and that of the vehicle is to be learnt slowly and steadily – Step by Step. Slow & steady driving is the most cumbersome to master. Remember the famous proverb: Rome was not built in a day.
Observational Learning: You, as a young driver should start learning driving first of all, just through minutely observing your father/mother, when he/she is driving the car and you are accompanying him/her. After all, your parents are your role models. Just calmly watch them, how they drive the car in different situations on the road – how they change the gears of the car, how they manage to drive through traffic, how they hold and control the steering wheel, when & how they apply brakes looking into the rear view mirror or how they accelerate the car; and how they control the clutch. Observational Learning is the best way of learning driving through watching your parents or other adult family members driving the vehicle, retaining the observed knowledge, and then later replicating the observed driving behaviors in your own real life.
Preliminary Steps: You must learn to completely focus on the road, fasten the seatbelt – which is also mandatory for safety purposes. You should set the rearview mirrors; check the fuel position through fuel indicator, brakes, headlights, and tires’ condition of the vehicle you intend to drive. You must make all these preliminary steps as a routine driving habit.
Start Learning from Empty Spaces: As you have to learn the complete alphabet of driving beginning from A, B, C, so you must start learning driving from the empty spaces and then move slowly onto the roads with lesser traffic after two days of learning. One suggested way of learning driving is to practice driving following a very slow moving vehicle, keeping a safe distance from that vehicle ahead of your car. You must not take the risk of driving on the state or national highways during the first week of learning driving; otherwise it can prove to be risky. Only that human being succeeds in life that takes only the calculated risks.
Speed Control: You must strictly adhere to the safe driving habit of keeping your vehicle within reasonable speed limits. In safe driving, speed does not matter; rather what matters is your control over your car. Controlling your vehicle is the most desirable aspect in safe driving. You must not accelerate your car merely for fun sake or for merry-making, as it may turn into sorrow.
Sincere Driving: Your aim must be to learn the art of Safe Driving because Rash Driving may prove very dangerous. Safety First, Speed Afterwards. Driving fast is a game and driving steadily is sincerity. And the sincerity of driving lies in steadily driving.
Choose between Drink & Driving/Use of Mobile & Driving: You must not drive even when you have taken a little peg. Either you opt for driving or for drinking. Almost similar is the option with you – either you opt for listening to mobile and texting message or for driving. Two swords do not fit into one scabbard.
Stay Calm & Cool: You should learn to remain calm & cool while driving, and not to express your anger over some passerby coming from the wrong side or who may be rash driving. Be cool & patient, only then you would truly love to drive and make your driving safe & comfortable.
Defensive Driving: You may be absolutely right and 100% flawless while driving, yet you must learn the art of defensive driving for the sake of safety, because some other person on the road may be wrongly driving and committing blunders on the road, at that time you have not only to save your life but also save your vehicle from collision. Defensive Driving is a stepping stone to successful & safe driving on the road.
Driving Up & Down the Slopes: After you have learnt driving adequately, then you should practice to move your vehicle up and down a slope, in forward gear, and then in reverse gear. Learning to reverse your car safely looking attentively in the rearview mirror is a difficult art and must be practiced thoroughly.
Traffic Situations: After gaining confidence in driving, you should learn to drive in any traffic situation without honking. You should take your car to crowded & narrow market places without honking, in order to gain more confidence in driving.
Company of Professionals: There is no doubt that your parents are your role models and your foremost teachers in your real life. But as you have to take admission in an educational institution for formal education, in the same way you have to take admission in a reputed, recognized professional driving school. One name here being suggested is Advance Driving School Edmonton. Here the professionals would impart safe driving instructions to you and you would feel free and comfortable to ask any question related to driving. Learning safe driving is a quite demanding job. It requires a lot of commitment, efforts, patience, and time on your part as well as the professional trainer. Here you would learn all the rules, regulations and tricks of safe driving. You would be imparted full theoretical knowledge as well as the complete alphabet of practical driving. Here you will get graduated in learning driving and you would come out with flying colors; earning perfect 10 out of 10 points. You will get full value of your money paid by way of having gained confidence in safe driving. Moreover, the school officials also provide the facility to pick and drop you from the place of your residence during the learning period.
Wish you a happy & safe driving!
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