What tips and tricks do you have for diving a car? Town centre/Motorway
What have you learnt/gained from your experiences on the road?

Always use your indicators and stay off your phone at all times.

Dont think you know how to drive after passing your test.

If you have a chance, take the advanced driving course.

Use your mirrors use your indicators.

Look ahead and spot hazard perceptions so you are prepared

And finally look at road signs/arrows on the road and get in the right lane!

Oh and always be prepared for the dicks in flash cars that think the rules of the road don't apply to them. Esp in town/city centres

Does anyone use the 'balancing car on a hill with the clutch and accelerator' technique instead of the handbrake approach?

Take aim, push your right foot down as hard as you can, shut your eyes.

No, it wears the clutch heavily (worst thing you can do to a clutch).

Exactly.

It's useful to be able to do it, but not to be recommended as the norm. Causes much wear and tear.

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Check your tires regularly. So pressure, wear and stuff stuck in them. Get a decent pressure gauge that'll also usually have tread gauge. My first car I just checked the outside, then after a skid discovered the wheel alignment was out.. And although the outside looked fine, the inside was very worn. Apparently traffic calming speed cushions can wear the inside edges if you straddle them as well.

Check your washer bottles, especially this time of year. It's not fun trying to drive with a windscreen that's slowly getting coated with road salt & gunk.

Then for driving, assume every other driver is out to kill you and is not going to stop at the junction you're approaching. Keep checking your mirrors for cyclists/motorcyclists that might have teleported into your blind spot(s), especially if you're about to overtake or turn. Basically reading the road ahead (and behind) for potential hazards.

Then like DP said, see if you can get on an advanced/defensive driving course. When I did my test, the instructor was ex-police and told me he was going to teach me to drive first, then pass the test. Which also included a session on a skid pan so I could experience the joys of skidding & aquaplaning. It's one thing to read about it in a test book, another to feel it happening.

Naturally, one can only offer personal opinions, which won't necessarily jive with other people's opinions, but my first thought is, if you can possibly avoid it, don't drive at all.
If you absolutely, MUST have a car for some reason, have an automatic, not stick shift.
It will make your life so much easier, get in, start engine, engage D for drive, check rear view mirror, indicate, stroke gas pedal and glide away.
Want to go faster? Increase pressure on gas pedal, need to slow down or stop? Apply pressure accordingly to the only other, normally wider foot pedal.
When you arrive at your destination, (providing you stop on a fairly level surface), engage P for park, ignore handbrake, others will say this is a bad habit, and can damage the pawl, this may be possibly be correct, but I can't remember the last stick shift that I owned, it's been autos for years, and I only ever applied the handbrake if I parked on a hill, or slope.
Be safe.

Check car before driving EG tyres and lights/etc.
Use indicators always.
If manual car, stopped at junctions/lights/etc always keep foot on brake alerts people behind you to slow down.
Drive within oe slower than speed limits especialy in built up areasa
watch out for clowns flinging their door open or going to their car, see your car and still fling door open.
never use mobile, change raidio, heating in cars wheh conforatable at not at junction appraoces.
uses mirrors.
look out for others when you get in out of car

Maintain a distance from the car in front such that you can stop, or easily take evasive action, even if the car you're following stops instantly - and it will stop pretty much instantly if it is involved in an accident. Most people don't drive at the safe let alone appropriate distance, which is why many road accidents involve secondary collisions. Don't compound your statistical risk of having an accident with that of the car in front. Driving two or three times the distance most people drive at is one of the simplest and surest ways of reducing your risk. It is also a much more pleasant and less stressful way to drive.

1) Attempt to second guess drivers you interact with as a rule. "Are they going change into my lane, are they going to stop at the junction?, did they see me move out? Are they speeding?" If it's too good to be true it probably is.

2) Always use indicators + mirrors. Check and then double check especially on motorways. Also look forward to see if another vehicle will be changing lanes along side you (i.e car moving right to left/left to right on middle lane)

3) Be courteous and you will find driving very easy. If someone needs more room, let them go first in a narrow lane. Don't be cheeky when there is no need - BUT do be confident of your right to be on the road.

4) Do not attempt to assume a driver's action when an indicator is needed. This is true when entering roundabouts - Follow the rulebook. If they aren't indicating to exit, they are going to pass you. Expect them to pass you not the other way around. However if there is time to go when it is clear, move on.

5) Obey speed limits especially when warned with numerous signs and markings on the road. 70-40-30 MPH zones will be well sign posted to warn drivers to slow down.

6) If you are lost, remember the county, town, village etc that you destination is in. Also keep in mind the nearest big city/town your destination to adjacent to

i.e 34 St Michele Street, Lucas point, Rochester, RP45 9PL. Use signs to direct back towards Lucas point or the next city in that direction.

I've found from personal experience, judgement and speed go hand in hand. You can be driving at 70+ mph but still maintain safe distances/mirror checks etc without breaking a sweat.

Never Drink and Drive, because there is always a danger of spillage, stop in a lay-by.

if you are sitting in poodling traffic then leave a gap at junctions as I might want to get into them you selfish *****

Just assume everyone around you has never passed their test and cut out their license from the back of a weetabix box.

Well you know its Christmas time.
The Police are out in force.
Not only for drink and drive offences .
Speeding is one of their aims at this time of year people rushing about all over the place.
Checking car conditions tyres etc.
But in the end good driving comes like most things in life experience.

Speeding is generally a waste of time. So figure on a 100 mile trip. Drive at 100mph, you get there in an hour. Maybe. Then some time later, tickets or an invitation to appear in court. Drive at 70mph, it's 35mins longer. Leave earlier. For shorter distances, going faster saves even less time, but still increases risks.

It's better to drive smoothly and not like a BMW driver on a motorway, ie charging up behind someone, slamming on the brakes and generally acting like a **** as you proceed calmly along and probably average a higher speed than them.. And it's less stressful, and easier on the licence/insurance and even fuel costs.

T'other thing that comes with experience is knowing where you're likely to get slowed down and get a better idea of how long a trip will take & how to avoid congestion when it happens.. Which sometimes means ignoring the ****-nav telling you to get off the main road because you know the people taking that advice are just going to snarl up traffic on the alternate route.

As a general rule, sit facing towards the steering wheel rather than away from it.

I need two tyres a week before Christmas.

£90 plus the Vat each..

I have a swivel seat for when I am reversing or I just fancy a chat with the backseat passengers on boring journeys

If you're sounding your horn more than once or twice a year, you're not using it right.

Try not to hit anyone or anything. It gets expensive.