My driving experiences-2

This is post is the continuation of the last post about my driving experiences.

Well let’s start with the important aspect of driving any car. First a fall, you should remove the phobia that you can’t drive a car as soon as you sit on the driver’s seat. You should have the confidence of driving the car irrespective of whether the weather, pothole ‘wallah’ road or any other minor reasons. Before starting of car it’s the responsibility of driver to ensure that the car is working properly. He is the one who has to see whether the car has adequate engine oil, brake oil or whether the tires are aerated. This should be done as the fate of the passengers is in his hand. Also you should adjust the two mirrors of your car to see the vehicles behind you.

The next important part is driving a vehicle improves your eye, ear, hand, legs co-ordination. Your reflexes should be quick to respond to any type of circumstances. Let me explain this hand-eye-ear-leg co-ordination with an example. When you sit on a driver’s seat you two legs should be able to handle the three pedals of the car namely ABC’s( accelerator, brakes, clutch) , your two hands should be able to handle the gears, steering wheel as well as various functions on the dashboard of the car. Also your eyes and ears should be wide open so that you could understand what’s happening in the surrounding.

Next thing is that you should always start any vehicle with gear in neutral mode. This prevents your car from starting from jerk in case you have not pressed the clutch pedal of the car. Slowly accelerate the car once you switched to the 1^st gear and change the gears according to your speed. Don’t accelerate the car rapidly as the vehicle in front of you can stop at any instant leading to an accident.

It is sometimes said ‘roads have potholes but Indian potholes have roads’ J

Though this criteria is not applicable to all Indian roads. Nothing happens if you go through a small pothole if your shock absorbers are good but many things can happen if u go through a big pothole. Your car can bounce and run into the divider of road.

Also from my experiences the golden rule to cross any speed breaker is as follows:

As soon as you see a speed breaker change the gear to 1^st and reduce the speed by pressing both the clutch and brake. As soon as you fell that your front tires have gone through the speed breaker increase the speed and shift to 2^nd gear. That’s what I have been doing whenever I see a speed breaker.

Last but not the least; don’t talk with your co-passenger unnecessarily. Also don’t drink and drive for sake of your safety as well as others who are driving on the road.

HAPPY DRIVING..