Hello I'm Chris.
In this video I'm going to show you how to steer a car correctly using the pull push
method.
It's the safest way of steering and is used by professional drivers such as the Police.
We saw in a previous video how to do the pull push steering in a car park.
I'm now going to demonstrate the steering in real situations on the road.
When steering your hands should never cross over.
Your right hand always stays to the right half of the steering wheel and your left hand
stays to the left half and they must never cross over.
To steer round this left hand corner I'm going to grip with my right hand and it will start
at the top.
I'll pull down with my right hand and push up with my left.
Grip with my left and push up with my right hand.
It takes good control to straighten the wheels at the right point.
For some turns you'll have to steer a lot and quickly.
Using the whole size of the steering wheel.
Sometimes it requires full lock, maximum steering.
I'm going round a left hand corner, steering back just at the right time so that I don't
over steer towards the parked cars.
You should hold the steering wheel at a quarter to three position or at ten to two like I'm
demonstrating here.
One reason why you don't want to cross your arms when steering is that if the airbag should
ever explode out of the centre of the steering wheel then you don't want your arms to be
in the way of it.
You should keep both hands on the steering wheel unless you need to operate a control.
I'm taking the next road on the left.
When to turn is very important.
If I turn too late then I'll turn too wide, turn too early and I'll hit the kerb.
After the turn and you need to straighten the wheels then you need to keep in full control
and don't let the steering wheel spin through your hands.
At the mini roundabout I'm turning right.
I'll grip with my right hand, pulling it down and pushing up with my left hand and continue
to feed the steering through.
Planning ahead I can see an oncoming car so I'm going to use this space.
Thinking about how I'm going to get out of the space as well.
Now big turns to the right, steering to the left so that I don't swing out too much and
then straightening the wheels.
I'm turning left at the end of the road.
How much steering to give really depends on the turn.
A common problem when coming out of a tight space is swinging out towards the parked cars
on the other side of the road.
Make sure that you steer back to the left in time and then straightening the wheels.
I'm turning right at the mini roundabout and it looks really tight.
There's parked cars in the way as well.
I'm going to steer a little bit left, I've got no choice but to drive over this roundabout
to avoid these parked cars.
Steering back to the left so that I don't swing out towards the white car.
At the mini roundabout I'm turning left.
Giving way to the right, steering left.
Feeding the steering wheel through, using that pull push method of steering.
Ready for oncoming.
Some mini roundabouts are impossible to go round properly especially when there's parked
cars in the way.
Steering round the parked cars.
At this roundabout I'm going to turn right.
Again impossible to drive round properly.
I'm in 1st gear.
Steering left to swing round.
Really trying my best to go round the roundabout.
Using the pull push method of steering here as I steer back to the left and straighten
the wheels.
Well that's the end of our video on the pull push method of steering.
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