Steering with your eyes
This activity explains a couple of techniques that your learner
can practice from the passenger seat to help them learn to steer
the car around a curve when they do get behind the wheel.
Activity: Steering with your eyes
- Ask your learner to watch the steering wheel when you go around
a corner or curve – point out how the steering is applied, stays on
for a short time with some adjustment and is then taken off.
- Ask them to pay close attention to the moment where steering is
taken off - the part where the car is leaving or exiting the curve,
or the ‘exit path’.
- As you approach corners or curves, have your learner imagine
the exit path before you start to steer and see if their imaginary
exit path matches yours. Practice this a number of times.
- Next time you approach corners or curves, have them look to the
exit path and keep looking at it. Ask them to think back from the
exit path to where the car is now, then ‘steer’ to the exit path
when you begin to steer.
Learning to look to where they want to go will help your learner
when you get behind the wheel.
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