in our 20-year experience we see that a lot of people struggle with with proper steering so
this is a major reason that people can't fix their path management now when when you sit
behind the wheel firstly make sure that you can reach all the controls comfortably you know and
make sure that your elbows are not you know in a sort of locked position so um
the steering wheel must have a bit of a free move when you when you're driving particularly
when you're cruising straight ahead so you should not squeeze the steering wheel and disallow it to
move to a certain degree freely so that way you will ensure that your path is
much better and and the car will do a lot of things for you now the front suspension of every
car is designed to handle little bumps and you know uneven surface but if you over control it
you might disable that function of the vehicle for example if you're driving on the freeway at
100 kilometers an hour if you have your arms very stiff on the steering wheel it will potentially
cause you to swerve out over the line and potentially clip another car one of the
other things that can influence your path is using your indicators and other controls
so when you use indicators try not to do it while you're steering so we always do it before
or after so your steering is free and without any obstructions so make sure that you use your
signals or window wipers before you start to make a sharp turn your path will be assessed in both
lower speed maneuvers and high speed maneuvers so more practice you have the less chance of making
errors so make sure you had enough practice before you book your driving assessment and
do ask your instructor if they believe you can pass just the other day we had a call by a person
who couldn't pass the test just because of their path and they they were complaining how it's it's
a reoccurring problem trusting a competent and caring instructor who's professional and who
knows how to convey their knowledge properly will be definitely the best investment that you can do
so never think that you can learn driving by just watching videos videos are good to watch
and obviously to get to gain a little bit of extra knowledge and obviously to be involved in you know
practicing without actually driving but they are certainly not a substitute for proper practice
when you do low speed maneuvers in a driving test changes of direction can expose incompetence when
it comes to path and you know tracking your path accurately so a lot of times people
would oversteer to make a turn and then you know overcorrect it later on so basically it
would make a bit of a swerving you know motion and as a result the candidate definitely loses
a lot of points sometimes when people do low speed maneuvers in the driving assessment they
will accidentally go to the opposite side of the road for example if they do the exercise left
something behind and if they chose to use the left left-hand side driveway to make a three-point turn
they would accidentally as they reverse out of the driveway end up on the wrong side of the road so
depending on the situation if a candidate corrects it as soon as possible without too much of a
hesitation and obviously lack of understanding where they are it could be an immediate fail
but we had instances where a candidate corrects immediately and would not even get marked for
it if you cross the unbroken line or you know double unbroken lines you know regardless of
the situation that would be immediate fail based on on your on your inaccurate path so where there
are double lines or you know a single unbroken white line you could not cross that line under
no circumstances sometimes if there's an emergency if there's a traffic controllers directing
if there are any road works that would obviously override your path so you know if you're directed
by a road traffic controller to go over the line and go to the opposite side of the road that is
fine proper choice of lanes could influence the path and the number of points that you achieve
in a driving assessment for example if a person's been in the right hand side lane which is a fast
lane so you know multiple lanes were designed to decongest the traffic so you know obviously
during the peak hours traffic particularly if you turn and you know shortly after so
just understand that you know most of the time you should be in the left-hand side lane if if it's a
choice of two lanes in a situation where you were instructed to turn left and then immediately right
you should go over to the right lane if it's safe to do so rather than going to the left lane and
after five six ten meters changing over to the right lane because you would potentially hold
up traffic and lose points for your flow you also have to understand that the speed of your movement
when when you're turning a corner for example can play a big role when you you know when when you're
getting marked and judged for your path so if you didn't slow down enough clearly you're not going
to be able to turn at a proper speed which would automatically cause you to go a little bit wider
or you know to cut the corner so always understand the relationship between the movement and your
path because obviously that's going to cause you to go wider or shorter or you know maltrack
your movement of your car and automatically lose pains for both your your movement and your path
so while you're steering we suggest that you focus and steering only and you know just
trying to make sure that you don't oversteer which would obviously prevent it from either
correcting it later on like we always say there's no substitute for a quality practice so hire one
of the expert instructors who can definitely help and resolve the issues of improper steering your
posture behind the wheel and the position of your hands in particular please feel free to ask us any
questions down in the comments below we thank you for watching and we will see you in the next video