Speed Speed Speed- has it now become "Target Fixation"

**neels** · 12th May 2015, 23:41

Originally Posted by AllanB

Now I am having to explain the entire driving process what to be working what to be looking for etc etc it is complicated and the possibilities of it going tits up are very high.

I do wonder though - we I was learning in old clappers the car rattled, vibrated and roared so much that you were really quite in touch with what was mechanically happening - modern motoring is like sitting on a sofa in your living room.

I agree completely, you don't realise what a busy process driving is until you try and explain it to someone else.

All of my kids learning to drive has been in old shitters, including explaining what the various bits of the car are actually doing when you are operating it (if necessary, off to the garage to show them the bits in question), more feedback and more understanding of the mechanicals is better.

Some years ago my wife got told off for going too fast by a driving instructor, because before that she had been learning in a somewhat less than standard Ford Anglia, and had already started judging speed by engine noise. I must have trained her well, the lessons ended when they ventured out of town for the first time and she overtook a sheep truck......