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How do you control the steering wheel of a car?

Vannie said:
Words on a screen will never teach you how to drive,and be in full control of a car with 100 % confidence. Driving is very serious.
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This.

Unfortunately if you don't have someone that can help you practice outside of the lessons, you are gonna have a pretty hard time.
 
travis82 said:
Wow, I try to ask for advices and this is the kind of negative responses that I get.

Gays don't have to be so mean to other gays. :(
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You have to understand that you seem to not be at all ready to take a test and I can't see how anyone could spend 2K on lessons and then be asking a question like you are on a porn forum board.

Why aren't you asking your instructor these questions?

We aren't being mean....we are just baffled.

And the advice is good. If you aren't ready to be a driver...then for fuck's sake don't get behind the wheel of a car and endanger the lives of other people.

And stop making excuses about not having anyone to help you practise. If you cant then you'd better keep paying someone to help you.
 
Your instructor is full of bs. If you go out with a licensed driver on a secluded road without traffic, drive. Just don't get caught. My grandmother taught me how to drive. She said "keep it between the ditches". :lol: When I was in high school, it was taught. IOW, free. But I already knew how to drive. I still had to take the course though.

Try Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+drive+a+car
 
I think you need to forget about how many rounds and visualizing the steering wheel. As much as I love to analyze and visualize, driving is not one of the activities where those are helpful techniques. What you need is feedback -- when I do this, the car does that. The only thing that needs some analyzing is which way to turn the steering wheel. How much you need to turn it will become obvious, and the answer is "enough". How the car has moved since the last turn will change how much correction you need, so there isn't really a clear rule.

If you want to get better at visualizing how turning the steering wheel affects the car, maybe you can get a small toy car so you analyze the motions in the comfort of your home.

Parallel parking is something of an exception because there are some rules for when to turn the wheel, etc. That's an advanced lesson.

For parking and other tight spaces, one rule that often applies is to do all the turning while the car isn't moving. Turn, then move. When you are moving and turning at the same time, things are more complicated, and you can't analyze it all. You just need to get used to how it feels.
 
Some people are good at driving, others aren't. There are a lot of people on the road who should have bought a bus pass instead.
 
I used to be able to parallel park that '66 Impala. Since going blind in one eye, I could barely parallel park my 2001 Ford Escort.
 
If you have your learner's permit, go to a big, empty parking lot and practice just turning, accelerating and braking until you get the feel of the machine, this is very important. Use the lamp posts in the lot as turning points and just drive in big figure eights until you get the feel and feel comfortable driving a car, then work on the rules of the road. That's how I'm teaching my two daughters to drive. One got the feel of the car right away and the other, needs, um, a little more practice.
 
See if you can buy a program and hard ware (steering wheel and brakes, gas etc.) to use on your computer, I think it might help.
 
So when do you get your class A CDL license? :lol:
 
I agree with those here who say you are overthinking the situation. Forget "rounds." Get a feeling for how much you car moves off its straight path, when you turn the steering wheel a certain amount. You get that feeling by moving the car slowly while turning the steering wheel a little bit.

You need more on-the-road practice to develop that feeling. The steering wheel is not a compass or a mathematical instrument, and you don't aim the car by counting any "rounds" or degrees of turn. It is an instinctual feeling you develop through practice. You don't think it; you feel it or sense it When you are driving at top speed, there is no time for analytical thinking.

A learner's permit, as has already been said here, should allow you to get the practice you definitely need more of, without paying anybody to sit beside you. All you need is to have a licensed driver sitting beside you while you gain some road time and needed experience in handling your car.

I've been driving for decades, and I couldn't tell you how much I have to turn the steering wheel to make a right-hand or left-hand turn. It is something I never think about. I just slow the car down to a moderate speed and turn the wheel a little or a lot, whatever it takes to make the car go in the direction I want it to go.

One trick in driving is not to watch the road just in front of your car's nose, but to look twenty or thirty feet ahead (or maybe more, depending on your speed. Looking at the road that is just passing under your car is too late. Whatever you see there, goes under your car before you can react to it and do anything.

But yes, you need a lot more practice and a lot more confidence in your ability to control your car before you take the driving test. You're not ready.
 
travis82 said:
Hi Sixthson, in Singapore here, we call it the PDL, Provisional driving license which allows you to practise driving in circuits/public roads.


But my driving instructor says I can only practice driving/ get behind the steering wheel during my driving lessons.
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That seems inconsistent. Perhaps the instructor just wants you to keep paying him. But you need practice on country roads andem-ty parking lots. Call the licensing office and ask them if you can practice with a licensed friend. Your dad should be able to ride with you a little no matter how busy he is.
 
I'm not up to date what games are in arcades nowadays, but even a good full-on driving game (where somebody sits in a replica of the front of a car, and has a big windshield/windscreen in front of them) will give a good resemblance of how the steering behaves. Of course the game will include far more hazards far more often than will be encountered in real life: dogs darting into the street, flooding, children chasing a ball, deer, etc.

I think these games even include parallel parking, at some point. Not sure.

You being in Singapore, travis82, consider yourself fortunate to be in a place where, until you're actually fully able to drive, there is an abundance of options. You can go almost anywhere in your NATION, and you are limited only by what you can carry with you, and by transit schedules. Singapore has a LOT of night life, though the schedule for getting out of, and back to, your neighborhood could be limited.

For some destinations within Singapore, the subway is probably a lot faster than driving in your busy city.

Do you have a lot of things you want to do in Malaysia and other foreign countries? Perhaps you often visit a destination elsewhere in your city-nation which may take three or four trains/buses to reach, and driving may be faster. Of course a car can be very handy for that.

There is of course the intangible and "priceless" feeling of having one's own "wheels" and I can relate to you. I remember how liberating it was, when I got my own car after learning how to drive. I felt that I could finally do what I wanted to do. Also I was a late starter (22 years old). My fears about driving were very much like your fears now. A year earlier, a cousin "broke through that wall" and showed me quickly that I would get through it and conquer the fears.

However, it is also true that I was living OVER 5km distance FROM ANY CITY OR TOWN, in the United States which had only a primitive transit system at the time (1970) and mass-transit here is still inferior to many other countries, which is a big contrast to what you have.

Find your COURAGE...and run with that ball. There's some very good advice here. I'll be here, in a different part of the world, wishing you complete success on this important quest.
 
travis82 said:
I can't seem to visualise the steering wheel when I want to make the car straight.

Parallel parking, if you turn the steering wheel all the way to the right to park the car, you have to turn the steering wheel all the way to the left to make the car straight?
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Focussing just on these two sentences of you original posting.

Why do you visualize the steering wheel at all? The steering wheel is a mechanism to steer the car. What you need to visualize (notice, observe, see) is where the car is going. Then make small corrections in its steering by small turns of the steering wheel one way or another, whatever is needed to make the car move the way you want it to move. Don't even look at the steering wheel during this process. Look at the road and the path the car is moving in. Eyes on the road; hands on the steering wheel.

Your sentence about parallel parking talks about turning the steering wheel "all the way to the right" and "all the way to the left." Who told you that "all the way" in either direction is necessary and correct? "All the way" seems extreme and unnecessary, even dangerous. You turn the steering wheel as much as is needed to head the car into the space you are aiming at. No "all the way' anything. If you were driving down a road and wanted to make a right turn, moving the steering wheel all the way to the right could send you flying off into the ditch or a tree or a field. To change lanes you don't turn the steering wheel all the way to the left. A steering wheel gets turned only as much as it needs top be turned to head the car in the direction you want it to go in. Your eyes tell you that, NOT your steering wheel.
 
Driving is not verbal. It's perceptual.

We can TELL you until we are blue in the face, but it will no help.

You must find someone to practice with. If you won't get your father's help, surely you have a friend who has a car and will help.

It is like riding a bike: you just practice until you are good at it.

Keep trying, but realize it is in the seat, and likely not with your instructor if you have been at it for two years and not progressed. I helped teach and older woman to drive last year and she almost scared me to death, but she got there. I wish you success.
 
Something else that you should know.

The steering on every car can be different...and the age and condition of the car makes a huge difference.

My neighbour has a truck with the loosest steering in the world I think, but our car is incredibly responsive with only slight movements.
 
I've been thinking of Travis all afternoon. It surprises me that some folks have a difficult time with driving. What NotHardUp said is true, it's all perception. I think Travis would do well to not even think about the position of the steering wheel, just feel the car respond to your movements of the steering wheel and how the car responds to the accelerator and braking. If you think the car is moving in the wrong direction you perform a correction. It's what driving is all about. You respond to the vehicle, traffic conditions, road curves, etc etc etc....
 
FPNY said:
I've been thinking of Travis all afternoon. It surprises me that some folks have a difficult time with driving. What NotHardUp said is true, it's all perception. I think Travis would do well to not even think about the position of the steering wheel, just feel the car respond to your movements of the steering wheel and how the car responds to the accelerator and braking. If you think the car is moving in the wrong direction you perform a correction. It's what driving is all about. You respond to the vehicle, traffic conditions, road curves, etc etc etc....
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Exactly!
 
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