Apply some motorcycle driving techniques to driving a car

To have safe driving skills, first of all, new drivers need to perform the correct techniques, then practice until it becomes a natural reflex like an innate instinct.

When we first learn to drive, we learn and practice some basic operations: starting on the spot or on a slope, reversing into the garage... When we are not yet proficient, it is easy to cause the engine to stall, or the car to jump up, and it is not uncommon for the car to roll back down when starting. But when we are proficient, the driver can accurately feel the resistance on the road, as well as the power of the engine.

The situation of mistakenly pressing the brake instead of the gas, the car rushing forward and crashing straight into a house or falling into a river will not happen. So how can you have good driving skills? First, you have to operate the car correctly, then practice it until it becomes a natural reflex like an innate instinct.

New drivers need to understand the differences in structure and operating principles of different types of vehicles, especially the type of vehicle they are attached to. For example, the issue between manual and automatic transmission vehicles.

In the current traffic situation, motorbikes are everywhere on every road and street. As a daily means of transportation, everyone has certain skills in controlling a two-wheeled vehicle. It is reasonable to think that the habit of using motorbikes causes some confusion when operating a car.

For example, the principle of an automatic car is to use only one foot, otherwise it will be very dangerous, because if you run at high speed, you can brake and accelerate at the same time, making the car easily flip over. Can that principle be applied to an automatic motorbike when it is not designed like a car?

The problem will be solved if the operations on each type of vehicle are practiced into a skill, you can use only one foot to switch between the brake and the accelerator without fear of confusion. With motorbikes, you need to practice the operation of "hand releasing the accelerator, foot pressing the brake" for manual transmission vehicles, or "release the accelerator, squeeze the brake" for scooters. Even if there is a car designed with one foot brake, one foot accelerator, you can still use it safely when you create the skill of braking "release the accelerator, step on the brake" and vice versa like the principle of "clutch in, accelerator out" of manual transmission cars.

Accidents will never end if you don't have good braking skills. The debate about automatic cars being prone to mistakenly pressing the brake instead of the accelerator, or about motorbikes being prone to pressing the brake and accelerator at the same time, will never end, and the opinion that they are unsafe vehicles still persists.

Obviously, building driving skills is very important, it determines the accident rate especially in the current complex traffic conditions of Vietnam, with all kinds of vehicles with different structures and operating principles. In addition, there is no shortage of people driving in the wrong direction. It should also be added that if everyone has proficient driving skills, the situation of driving in the wrong direction will naturally disappear, because driving in the right lane has been trained into an instinct.

The last thing I want to say in this topic is that you cannot create driving skills if you only study for a few days, a few hours a day, driving this car today and another car tomorrow. If you do not actively learn and practice seriously, the desire to have driving skills is really a distant dream.