Lesson nine, total of 16 hours driving. Good things: good clutch control in traffic jams, left leg/foot sure got a work out changed lanes on dual carriageways pretty well managed to kind of cope ok with more cars on the road Bad things: reversing round a corner is not my thing, yet car was positioned [...]
Lesson eight, total of 14 hours driving. Good things: survived multiple large roundabouts learnt reverse around a corner Bad things: stalled a couple of times did not reach national speed limit on a dual carriageway, nowhere near at all tried parking on the kerb when I didn't need to I'm getting more confident with driving [...]
Lesson seven, total of 12 hours driving. Good things: went to fourth gear quite smoothly highest speed of 55mph, so I'm getting more confident with speed did parallel parking completely unassisted - yay! bay parking has definitely improved, the car was actually inside the bay, I just needed to turn a little later can understand [...]
Lesson six, total of ten hours driving. Good things: went to fourth gear drove 50mph experience of slip roads went on two of the largest roundabouts in the city - and survived! learnt parallel parking Bad things: bay parking was not happening for me, instructor informed me the parking spaces were smaller in this car [...]
Lesson five, total of 8 hours driving. Good things: drove from home, so drove the whole lesson learnt bay parking, even if it was in a very empty car park overtook the bus that overtook me - see below did not crash *thumbs up* Bad things: bumped a kerb pulling out of the car park, [...]
Lesson number four, total of seven hours driving. Good things: went round a normal roundabout, one with two lanes went up to 45 mph went to third gear multiple times did not stall turn in the road/three point turn maneuvered well stopping has improved instructor made no comments on "snaking" on the road Not so [...]
Lesson number three, total of five hours driving. Good points: went to third gear went up to 40mph went round a roundabout overtook a bus experienced traffic lights and crossings drove home! Not so good points: stalled, twice, it was bound to happen knocked onto the kerb, a fair few times "snaked" across the road [...]
Lesson number two, third hour of driving. No stalling, no crashing - awesome! Apparently I'm good at starting the car, need to practise my stopping, I stop too soon. Instructor told me to find a "safe and legal place to park", just hit the brakes, didn't check my mirrors so didn't notice that there was [...]
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