In order not just to drive a car from point A to point B, but to really get a real drive from driving a car, while minimizing all the dangers and risks on the roads, learn to feel your car. It means feeling it as part of yourself. Understand him like a best friend and love him like a woman. Then he will answer you in the same way: with love, loyalty and understanding.
Instructions
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What does the "feel of the machine" consist of? From many components: visual perception, musculo-motor, vestibular and auditory sensations, the speed of information processing by the driver's brain, muscle reaction, etc. But the most important thing is intuitive, the so-called. The "sixth" feeling that comes with the experience of driving a car.
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To learn how to feel the car, try to develop some of the senses that are necessary to master the art of driving to the fullest with simple enough exercises. Ideally, in addition to these exercises, you can also take practical lessons from a professional driving instructor.
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Of all the senses that the driver uses when driving a car, vision plays a special role. Since with the help of his eyes he perceives approximately 90% of all information necessary for driving.
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When driving at high speed, an inexperienced driver looks at the brake lights of a car in front of him. A driver with a rich "road" experience behaves quite differently. It is as if he is "driving" in front of the car in front and at the same time sees everything that is happening far ahead: for example, a traffic light, which is preparing to switch the light; a pedestrian walking along the roadside and somehow strangely squinting at the road; a cat that was going to run across the carriageway in front of a rushing car at a distance of 5-6 cars in front of the driver. Many of these risky and dangerous situations can be predicted instantly using peripheral vision. Although it does not make it possible to clearly see an object that is located away from the roadway, it allows you to see the silhouette, contour, and also instantly assess the direction and speed of its movement.
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Exercise 1. When driving on a straight section of road at a safe speed, turn your head to the right and try to fix your gaze on any object or detail of the landscape - for example, a building or a tree. As soon as it turned out to clearly "grasp" this object with a glance, immediately turn your head to the left and in the same way fix your gaze on the object / detail of the landscape to the left of the roadway. Continue this exercise, turn your head to the right and then to the left, without stopping it in a straight position. Over time, you will become convinced of your ability to maintain directional control under these conditions, and you will be surprised at yourself. As you get used to this feeling, you will feel much more confident.
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Exercise 2. Make the task a little more difficult. When driving again in a straight line at a safe speed, try to look at an object to your right without turning your head and trying not to squint your eyes. Of course, you will not see the object clearly. But still try to determine by the silhouette or contour you see: what kind of object it is, its size, shape, distance to it. And then immediately turn your head towards this object, instantly assess whether you have identified it correctly with the help of lateral vision, and immediately turn your head straight.
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In addition to vision, hearing is also important for the driver. By the sound of the engine running or, for example, by the rustle of tires on the asphalt, he can also judge how his car is behaving. In addition, an experienced driver pays attention not only to the "voice" of the car, but also to the sounds of the road.
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Exercise 3. While driving a car, listen to its sounds and count their sources - radio tape recorder, engine, power steering, suspension. Find more and more sound sources, get used to their tonality.
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Exercise 4. Again complicate the task a little. As in the previous exercise, start counting external sound sources. Separate the audible sounds from each other, identify the source of each of them.
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In addition, there are also other sensitivity channels that are used by experienced drivers. For example, the vestibular apparatus allows a subtle response to accelerations that occur in a car. The driver also judges them by the degree of pressing the body to the seat. Therefore, it is important to train your vestibular apparatus, muscle sensations.
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Exercise 5. Find the most comfortable position in the driver's seat. In this position, you will be able to feel your body parts (arms, neck, legs) and at the same time not experience muscle tension or fatigue. It is difficult to give recommendations here, since everyone finds the driving position and seat position according to their own feelings. Moving at low speed on a more or less free road, try to feel your every movement. Your task is to get used to feeling yourself, your body.
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The muscular sensations that a driver experiences from the steering wheel of a car is a very useful channel of information for him. Signals from it pass into the central nervous system several times faster than through the visual or auditory canal. Therefore, drivers may be advised to pay more attention to the feel they experience from the steering wheel. This sensitivity channel will give you a better feel for the car.
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In addition, the sense of smell also plays an important role. You have to figure out all the smells of your "iron friend" - gasoline, exhaust, burnout clutch, overheated antifreeze, and red-hot brake pads. If there is a foreign suspicious odor in the car, consult a specialist.
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Train your senses, senses, and over time your car will become an open book for you. Then the ear will catch the rustle of tires, and not the squeal of the brakes, on which road and how fast you go in the car. In addition, your car will become an extension of your body for you. And when this happens, you will begin to really feel the car, you will kind of coexist with it. At the same time, she will quickly and easily respond to the most varied nuances of your movement. And then it will be possible to discern art and your "handwriting" as a driver.
