About taxiing, how to enter the turns.

With the purchase of a new car with a hydraulic booster, I began to notice that my wife, let's call her a novice driver, absolutely stopped steering correctly. Often twists the steering wheel, makes too sharp maneuvers. I thought for a long time what helps me feel the road, how I quickly learned to drive and turn the wheels to the right angle. I also reviewed many different video tutorials and all kinds of courses.

Initially, the hands rest on the steering wheel in the 10: 2 position if we consider the steering wheel as a clock face. Why do they rest? Because these are points of balance, the weight of the arms is, as it were, weights that allow not to strain the muscles of the arms when the car is moving in a straight line. And if you need to correct the movement, just a small movement of the hands is enough, as a rule, this is just a weakening of the grip of the steering wheel of the hand opposite to the turn. That is, if within the limits of your lane it is necessary to snuggle to the side of the road, it is enough to loosen the grip of the left hand, and then the steering wheel goes out of balance, the right hand pulls down, and the car turns to the right.

If we remove the hand, then under the weight of the remaining hand, the steering wheel rotates and the car turns.

But, if you need to make a turn, or go into a long, fast turn? How to understand how much you need to turn the steering wheel? I listened to the sensations for a long time, it is clear that they are already on my automatism, but still somehow I started, somehow I quickly began to understand how and where to turn the steering wheel in order to control the car. Let's analyze the turn to the right, there is a steering wheel and two hands, in this case the right hand has a power hand, a sharp jerk down and the steering wheel will turn to the right very quickly, but here there is a very high probability of twisting the steering wheel. Therefore, the turn is performed with two hands.

And the left hand here turns out to be a little more important, it is she who sets the correct angle. The fact is that with such movements in the left hand, much more muscles will be involved, including the shoulder muscles, and when you apply so much effort, it is easier to control these efforts. Before that, I had a car without a hydro or electric booster, and I had to bring the steering wheel to the desired angle almost with my body weight.

It turns out that when turning to the right, we start the rotation with the right hand, and we correct it with the left. We bring the steering wheel to the desired angle. And pay attention to the grip, the steering wheel is firm, but not tightly gripped in the hand. no palms, etc. We receive information about the cohesion of the stake through the thumb, if we have stones, gravel or something wrong, then we will feel it with the second phalanx of the thumb. Or put your finger on the steering wheel straight with a pad.

Again, if we see that a large (sharp) turn can be used pre-grip, that is, in advance, move your hands to a different position on the steering wheel, so as not to take your hand off the steering wheel for as long as possible. Why do this? So that there are fewer hand movements, there will be an interception especially. It is at the moment of interception that the steering wheel can knock out with a hole or a stone.

7 pre-capture when turning left.

For example, we have to make a sharp left turn. We do a pre-grip at point 5 with our right hand and at point 12 with our left hand. And as soon as we returned our hands to the normal 10: 2 position, our steering wheel was already turned almost 90 degrees.

We continue the rotation as described above. The hand in which direction turns the auto (left) power, the other (right) corrective. But it happens that this is not enough. Then the interception of hands occurs. But this will be better explained in a driving school. Or at the circuit.

And most importantly, the steering should be progressive, starting with a small angle and low speed, gradually accelerating the speed of rotation of the steering wheel and, accordingly, the angle of rotation. Ideally, if the steering wheel will not rotate at the same speed when cornering.

And now about how to take turns correctly.

One of the most excellent videos where a specialist tells everything in detail.

And that's all for now, I hope my wife quickly learns to drive safely, and my advice will be useful to others. If you have any disagreements and comments, write, I am not an expert and tell about my observations, I would like to hear the opinion of the pros.