How to steer with your eyes
This activity explains a couple of techniques that you
can practice from the passenger seat to help you learn to steer the
car around a curve when you do get behind the wheel.
Activity: Steer with your eyes
- Watch the steering wheel when the driver goes around a corner
or curve – you’ll notice steering is applied, stays on for a short
time with some adjustment and is then taken off.
- Pay close attention to the moment where steering is taken off.
This is the part where the car is leaving, or exiting, the curve –
the ‘exit path’.
- As the driver approaches corners or curves, imagine the exit
path before the driver starts to steer and see if your imaginary
exit path matches theirs. Practice this a number of times.
- Next time the driver approaches corners or curves, look to your
exit path and keep looking at it. In your mind, think back from the
exit path to where you are now - steer to the exit path when the
driver begins to steer.
Learning to look to where you want to go will help you when you
get behind the wheel.
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