{"id":4025,"date":"2021-02-25T08:21:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T21:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2021-02-26T05:12:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T18:12:52","slug":"master-the-skill-of-driving-with-these-important-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/master-the-skill-of-driving-with-these-important-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Master the skill of driving with these important tips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When you rate your own driving, you’re likely to think that you are better than you are because you’ll judge yourself on your criteria<\/a>. It leads to well over 50% of people thinking they are above average drivers (something statistically impossible, seeing as it should be 50%), and also the phenomenon of illusory superiority<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if you rate yourself in the top 10%, there’s still room for improvement. If you’ve not had any input into your driving for a while (except the odd speeding fine or being chastised by your spouse), then it might be time for a tune-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to basics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Due to the forgetting curve<\/a>, after a couple of days, we’ve forgotten the majority of what we learned. We can only retain information by repeatedly reminding ourselves of it. Your driving instructor will have told you a multitude of things, but you will have forgotten a lot of them and, unless you’ve had advanced driver training in the interim, you’ve now just settled into your own way of doing things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can easily get a tune-up, though. Search on Google for a driving instructor near you, e.g. ‘driving instructor in Melbourne’, ‘driver training in Toronto’ or ‘Driving Schools East London<\/a>‘. This way, you’ll get a list of people in your region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make sure you choose a driving instructor<\/a> that you feel comfortable with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re an experienced driver, one lesson is all it should take if you are open to suggestions. If you’re stubborn, it’ll take more. Of course, you have to apply the things you learn and it might take some time to break the habits you’ve developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work on your bad habits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A few bad habits you might want to iron out are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n