Tips On Becoming a Better Driver

Being on the road a lot it's important to be as safe as possible with your driving techniques and habits. It's very important for your safety, as well others that you take charge and stay focused to your surroundings.

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Here are some of those Great Tips

1. Know Your Car

For a start, I’m very serious about all the points here. I’m laying them out because not every driver seems to be aware. Here: Get to know your car. Read the manual. Take the car out and do braking maneuvers (where allowed and safe). Take the car out and see how it reacts in rain or in snow. Few people know how their cars react in adverse conditions. That’s where we need to know them the most though, and where we learn the most.
2. Configure and Watch The Mirrors

A few months back I shared on Google+ how mirrors should be set up. It appeared to me that the few responses were coming from “oh, well I know how to set up mirrors on a car.” Maybe. That just stands in contrast to what we observe out there, where we rarely if ever see mirrors adjusted correctly. From Skip Barber:

Make sure the side view mirrors perform their intended function. They’re meant to view beside the car, not the side of the car. What do you really need to see; your rear bumper or the car in the next lane?

Adjust the side mirrors out just so you can no longer see the side of your own car. This should help reduce traditional blind spots.

I learned this the “hard” way, maybe ten years ago, when a good friend of mine teased me, to tears, because of my mirror setup. I now promise to give anyone here the same sort of tough love when I find them watching their own car in the mirrors.

Once set up right, mirrors become even more useful.
3. Use Turn Signals (When They Matter)

This just for the folks who simply never use their turn signals: Sometimes they’re actually important, so please learn to tell when that’s the case. They don’t matter as much when nobody’s around, or doing the same thing. But if there’s somebody around and not doing the same thing, use turn signals. It can actually be dangerous not to use them.
4. Look Ahead

Simply watching the car in front is not safe, and gets unsafer and unsafer the shorter the following distance is. Try to look ahead and see what’s coming up 200, 500, or 1,000 meters ahead. One does still, immediately notice if the person in front is doing something unexpected, like braking unnecessarily because they don’t keep a sufficient distance.

The habit of looking ahead led me to dislike trucks and SUVs in front because they block too much of the view. I either increase my following distance—or try to pass. The first option is the better one. The second option is the one that people sometimes confuse for… aggression. Well.
5. Keep a Safety Margin

I featured this in the aforementioned earlier post on driving but it’s worth repeating: Maintain a safe, comfy distance to the car in front.

The law and the experts are on the very defensive side (if in doubt, err on the side of following them). What I’ve always found interesting, to say it this way, is how law and experts ignore factors like probabilities. There is a difference between maintaining a distance x when there’s lots of traffic and one can’t look ahead, for example, and when there’s little traffic and clear view on the road ahead. Read the Full Post here http://meiert.com/en/blog/20130910/become-a-better-driver/

Being a very experienced driver I would have to agree with all the mentioned tips and recommend you go read the rest of the tips to truly become a much better Driver