Driving Secrets - Notes for New Drivers
Notes on Driving – New Driver Edition ver 04b 2015- 2016 Hugh Tayler People who don't drive think that parallel parking and keeping the car out of the ditch are the hard parts of driving, but that hasn't been true for many decades. For most people, interacting with dense and aggressive urban traffic is way more difficult. But drivers have lots of other less obvious issues, some of which I will discuss. How My Sister Learned to Drive My sister once set the record straight: “I drive more than all three of my brothers put together.” It wasn't just the mileage, though. She can also handle a 24-foot long RV or a sedan with 300 horsepower. I've lost track of the sporty cars my sister has driven. I remember the MGB convertible, the Beetle convertible, the Cabriolet, and more recently, the turbocharged Golf. But she learned to drive on a big unsporty four-door sedan, probably Dad's luxurious blue-green Pontiac Parisienne with brocade seats and effortless but insensitive po