Being a safe driver – 10 tips:

Being a safe driver on the road is the subject we are discussing below. With thousands of drivers on the road you, we face with bad drivers, poor decisions, and potential hazards all the time while driving. Knowing to drive is one thing but being a safe driver all the time is no coincidence and you can practice good driving habits and learn skill every day. That kind of experience is what you need to develop while driving in every road situation. This might not happen even you have years of driving experiences and you always carry on your bad driving habits.

That is why for being a safe driver, it is important we practice good driving habits to avoid common mistakes. Being a safe driver is an attitude. Being a safe driver is a practice you do everyday to instill a habit in your driving. Here are few tips to being a safe driver, and improve your skills:

Being a safe driver tips:

1. Know your car before driving – Do you know your car fully? You need to know all about your car so that you have handle it better. This will specially help you in a difficult situation. Know the capability of your car before you chose the off-road, for example. Read the manual and discuss with someone if you do not understand it fully.
2. Look ahead and turn – Instead of turning as it happens, you need to plan, know the situation, control the speed and examine the surrounding before taking any turn. That gives you the better control of your car to face any situation ahead. It makes you have nice smooth turn while driving in the sharp turn instead of having over controlling and weaving drive.
3. Stay clear of blind zone and know what is in your blind zone – This is the driving skill you can practice every day and it will be your second nature while driving. This is a very simple but very effective way of avoiding many unnecessary troubles in your day-to-day driving. Practice it.
4. Look cars ahead in distance – We tend to focus on cars in our surroundings. That is natural. But it is a good driving practice to look ahead in advance and observe the situation so that you can have good understanding of the road situation and to take control before situation turn bad.
5. Get up to speed while merging with traffic – While merging to the highway you need to have the same speed as the highway has. You should use the merging lane to take be in the same speed as the highway before merging so that you merge smoothly, easily, and safely and avoid the possible hazard.
6. Go easy on brakes while slowing down – Always keep sufficient distance in front of your car. You do not need to brake hard to stop the car. Read the speed of the car ahead and prepare for yourself by reducing your speed and breaking slowly and smoothly. That not only help you to have a controlled driving but also help to save gas mileage.
7. Practice parking – Parking is not interesting. But knowing how to park in different road situation and parking condition is a must-know for all drivers. The basic parking skills for parallel parking, perpendicular parking, up-hill, and down-hill parking. Always check the surrounding carefully, control your speed, look back time-to-time in a busy area to assess the situation and always take sufficient time while parking.
8. Practice reversing – Reversing is a skill you like to master. This not only improve your driving confidence but also help you have a better driving control. Find a nice safe road and practice reversing. Also, you should be always very careful while reversing at any time. Observe the surrounding carefully or even ask someone to help you observe if the area is busy. This helps you to avoid nasty situation.
9. Patience – Patience is one the most important traits of a skillful driver. Instead of driving in high speed and rushing and racing your car it is a good habit to start a few minutes earlier. That gives you sufficient time to overcome any unexpected road situation. While entering in the t-section or being stuck in the traffic, have a good patience and that will always pay off.
10. Defensive driving – Defensive driving is driving practices that makes you see and avoid other bad drivers and nasty road situation. You can pre-judge the situation and steer your car away in such a way that helps you to have a complete control of road situation before anything bad happens.

These are some of the better driving practices tips that you can practice every day. We at Moxie Driving School, we always encourage our students to be a safe and defensive driver. Remember, road is a shared public area and there are so many drivers who do not have proper driving skill or experiences or are bad drivers by habits. We just want to go from point A to B safely. Practice this.

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By now you might have good understanding of what it takes for being a safe driver. These kinds of practices are also taught in any driving lessons near you, or in-car driving lessons, or even in your driving theory courses. In our driving school the driving lessons we provide in South West Calgary, our driving instructors teach the driving students to practice these skills in a proactive way. This also gives them an edge in their driving road-test and they can show what they have learnt in their driver training classes.

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