On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Adrian
Picture this... 472I was some time ago, at very low speed, by a young and attractive wench claiming it was her birthday in traffic. Unfortunately for her the damage* meant I had to contact her insurance company...
I have to agree with Ray on this one. I wanted to know everything I could, and my instructor was excellent at going beyond what was needed to explain and demonstrate things in order to satisfy my questions. However in the end the focus had to come squarely back to the test and what was required of it, with other things slotted in as and when time-context permitted.
Picture this... 471On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 20:22:27 +0100, PC Paul I can't see why not, since the perp is in a public place and it is legal to make photographs...
The instructor's primary objective is to get you to test standard. It's certainly nice to have an articulate, friendly instructor who can work out your level and give you more on top of that, but it's not required. My instructor described some of the morons he had to teach, who didn't listen and never thought about anything, so it cuts both ways too. There's more than enough to be getting on with just to get through the test itself.
It would be great to get practical demonstrations of understeer and oversteer (I still don't know what they are BTW). But then it would be equally great to get advice-demonstrations on how to drive the car on ice, the essentials of how to maintain the car in winter, how driving changes at night and how to drive on motorways. None of these very important things are on the test syllabus and you can legally drive around without knowing any of them.
Chris
