dont be nervous. Relax. If you stress out behind the wheel, you have more chance to get in an accident.
drive as often as you can. Get lots of pratice.What is some good advice for someone who is first learning how to drive?
always check if the handbreak and the gear are in up and in neutral postion and check when you engage them , we won't want to engage the reverse gear when actually is to go forward now do we. DON';t Drink and DRive
Never talk on the phone while driving, no matter if you are jsut learning, or you have been driving for years.
Always obey all traffic laws.
Take a drivers education course, and study very hard, take notes, pay attention to everything that the instuctor/s say.
Get a free drivers instructional handboook from your local department of public safety (or whatever office you have to go to to test for drivers license). Read it and study it thoroughly. You should read the whole thing cover to cover at least 10 times, and you should also take notes from it and study them.
Stay in your lane and don't try to pass until you get more experience driving.
Also, never tailgate. I haven't had an accident in 20 years because I never tailgate. You never know what the driver ahead of you has to contend with and may need to stop suddenly for.
Best to stop on a yellow light, unless the yellow lights stay yellow for a long time. Initially, stop on yellow unless you know that particular light stays yellow for a while.
Don't speed. Any accident you get in will be worse if you are driving too fast.
Just added: Don't trust the other driver. I can't tell you how often I have been tempted to go out on the road from a side street because the driver coming toward me is signaling that he will be turning down my street. Sometimes he has turned earlier and the signal light is still blinking for some reason. Wait until you see him turning before you go out on the road.
My car insurance company LOVES me because I have been such a terrific risk for so long. I don't cost them anything because I follow all the above suggestions.
Try the following 4-Point ActiveDrive system. Frequently look
1. Straight ahead (of course)
2. Back, via rearview mirror when driving. But physically turn head to view the back when backing off.
3. At sides, via sideview mirrors.
4. At a side by physically turning your head before changing lane (to avoid blind spots that prevent you from seeing approaching vehicles)
* Also, remember to signal early enough before changing lanes or turning.
* If possible, minimize driving in bad weather conditions.
* Avoid loud music since it can encourage speeding and soothingly sleepy music when you're tired. Loud music prevents you from hearning oncoming/crossing emergency vehicles.
* Be patient. It's better to loose some minutes missing a turn and driving 1-2 extra blocks/exits than to get involved in an accident.
* Plan your travel ahead of time to avoid traffic jams.
* Stay focused when driving by a scene of accident (people with ';rubbernecks'; don't take as much cautions because they're too busy looking at the accident thus not paying attention to their own driving).
* Establish a reasonable, acceptable speed pattern when on expressways. Avoid speeding tickets, which most likely leading to higher insurance premium, and saves on milage economy. It's generally believed that expressway driving at +/-10 above/under 55 MPH is optimal for gas milage. Doing 80 MPH has adverse effects).
Practice parallel parking, backing out, and making left turns.
Be considerate
Watch the road way ahead of you so you know what is going on before you have to merge or slow down.
Don't block intersections or driveways. Leaving an opening for someone to turn off the road into a driveway wont get you there any later.
Turn arrows are there for a reason so just wait it might take several turns but you will get your turn and stop the gridlock some people just can't help but cause because they might have to wait 2 or 3 minutes for their turn.
Remember everyone makes mistakes so before you get angry think it through, and if drivers were more considerate of everyone on the road the road way happier place.
What you are doing and where you are going is just as important as everyone else. Unfotunetly selfish people are allowed to drive too.
Oh and watch for the no left turn into.....(like a gas station) because you are blocking all the cars behind you (sorry we have a gas station on a corner and people are always trying to turn left into it when if they had gone through the light they would'nt block traffic trying to turn where they arent allow and there are signs that say no left turn thgey just ignore it and back traffic up. They do it leaving too and arent suppose to turn left of.) so watch for that stuff too.
Watch out for the other guy.
Be a defensive driver!
practice makes perfect
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