PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum - View Single Post - evasive driving techniques, whats the best thing to do?

MikeTangas · #12 02-25-2002, 10:45 AM

One other thing you can also do that doesn't cost anything is play "what if" while driving. I have done this for nearly 30 years (I started driving at the ripe old age of 12, licensed at 13). The game is simple, tooling down the road, imagine a situation and ask yourself what you will do if "this" happens.

Say you are running up the highway, number one lane, next to the "K" rail (the low cement walls the highway dept. puts out). You're doing 75MPH, what if the left front tire blows, what is the car going to do, what are you going to do? Or making a sweeping left turn on a highway curve, right front blows, what and what again? Do the same thing with the other drivers around you, if he does this, I will do that. After a while the reaction you have mentally practiced will be at your ready disposal.

I used this when learning to drive,and through high speed driving courses, on the skid pan and in daily driving as well. It has served me well.