4 professional driving techniques we should all know

Biggest issue in driving worldwide, people hit brakes at the wrong times.
Hit a major puddle they hit the brakes causing aquaplaning, now you've got no steering at all modern cars try to mitigate this with ABS and traction control.
I've done 3 advanced driving courses and the other big issue is how people approach corners and take them, they don't stick to the road and drift over to the other lane.
There is also no watching the road to try predict what will happen and following distances are atrocious, plus speeding in non favourable conditions.
So yeah this guy's advice does seem correct, the jist of it, don't over use the brakes, it's job is to slow you down, slamming on them doesn't do that faster
 
Lupus said:
Biggest issue in driving worldwide, people hit brakes at the wrong times.
Hit a major puddle they hit the brakes causing aquaplaning, now you've got no steering at all modern cars try to mitigate this with ABS and traction control.
I've done 3 advanced driving courses and the other big issue is how people approach corners and take them, they don't stick to the road and drift over to the other lane.
There is also no watching the road to try predict what will happen and following distances are atrocious, plus speeding in non favourable conditions.
So yeah this guy's advice does seem correct, the jist of it, don't over use the brakes, it's job is to slow you down, slamming on them doesn't do that faster
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Good braking habits were easier to learn before ABS.

After passing his drivers, my brother drove a car that had ABS, and he develop that nasty habit of driving very close to the car in front. A few weeks after buying his own car, which did not have ABS, he rear ended another car.

Imho, people rely to much on modern day safety features and thinking they are a better driver than what they really are.

I am glad my first car had no abs and no fancy safety features, any mistakes gave immediate feedback/lessons, so you quickly learn.
 
Sepeng's SA driving tips
All rules of the road are more suggestions than actual rules
If the robot is orange and there's less than 100m to go before you reach the intersection, mate speed up to get through, else the car behind is gonna crash into you.
If you need to get into the next lane don't indicate, else another car will see you trying to move over and speed up to block you off.
If you need to drive at night, drive drunk; 80% of the other drivers at night will be drunk as well so if you're as sloshed you won't notice. Driving sober at night is scary. Driving drunk at night is pretty relaxed.
 
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