Feeling Nervous?

Are you're feeling nervous about starting driving for the first time? I've recently written a little about how people often feel nervous when they are in the car.
Describing how it's a very normal feeling when we are out of our comfort zones, and how your instructor is in the car to co-drive with you.
Certainly in the early stages of learning the responsibility of safety is mainly resting on the driving instructor's shoulders, which then gradually passes over onto the students shoulders.

I have recently been to America driving on the wrong side of the road. I didn't know instinctively which way to look or what I was looking for. The road signs and paintwork were unfamiliar as was getting my road positioning in very large lanes. I felt like a complete novice. The good news is that feeling like a learner has given me a fresh empathy for what learner drivers go through in the car.

If you live in the Folkestone, Hythe, Dover or Hawkinge area and are thinking about starting to to drive this year, come test out my new found empathy with a special offer of buy 5hrs of driving lessons and get 5 free .

Driving in Dallas Texas

Are you crazy? Driving in Dallas is like driving in the centre of London but on 5 lanes each way - sped up to speeds of 60 mph. Its a bit like driving on the M25 but with more lanes and vehicles overtaking you on both sides.

In a multi lane road in the US, the right hand lane is for turning off on the right and the left is for turning left and sometimes an HOV (High Occupancy Vehicle) Lane. That means you stay in the middle 3 lanes depending on which direction and exit you're taking next.

So you're in a middle lane and someone suddenly remembers they're taking the next exit. This often means that they cut you and 3 other lanes up leaving just feet of clearance at 60mph, and this is a common occurrence.

Some of the cars play the road like a classic computer game -like all the other cars are only there to be dodged around so they can get to the winning post first.

I guess you could find a safe way to drive in this environment, but the simplest definitely seems to miss it out altogether and drive around it.