Lesson 22, total of 42 hours driving.

Good things:

• ok parallel park, might have straightened up a bit too early
• good control of car when performing turn in the road on narrow road
• improvement on meeting traffic
• positioning has also improved
• didn’t run any children over during the school run
• didn’t threaten the lollipop man as I stopped quite far away from him
• went just over 70mph, gripped the wheel tightly at the time, but 70mph gets less scary each time

Bad things/ areas for improvement:

• do not have to always stop immediately when lights change to amber, car ended up blocking a man and wheelchair crossing the road, so had to move on
• stalled twice; when stalled, change to first gear immediately; wondered why I wasn’t moving after the first stall, turned out I was in third gear, which made me stall a second time straight after
• emerging/ roundabouts: if I don’t know, don’t go; but if I can run across the road then I can definitely drive across and join – basically, hesitate less

So that was an ok lesson, there were more cars on the road, and obviously lots of little people making their way home. If that was a test, it would’ve been a fail due to the incident with the traffic light/ blocking man and wheelchair from crossing.

Leaps and bounds with positioning and meeting traffic though.

But now my decisions with emerging have declined, I suppose I am driving at busier times so I have to adjust to that. This might take a few more lessons to correct, as it did with my positioning and decisions with meeting traffic.

But I will get there. I need a car for September!