Lack Confidence with overtaking
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 9:25 pm
Something that has come back to haunt me when I drove home earlier is that my lack of confidence with Overtaking
One of the reasons for doing the IAM was to perhaps improve my confidence in this area, Overall im a confident driver, and id say that even before IAM days.
But throughout my observed runs I only came across 2 opportunities to overtake (on single carriageway), the first one my observer asked me if I was going to overtake, i immediately said no and explained that there was too many side road junctions.
The second one was a tractor, but I dont have any problems with slow moving vehicles.
Ive not had very many opportunities to practice overtakes lately or on my observed runs, but I had a vehicle in front of me doing 40mph which i reached in a good open road which I had 2 opportunities i missed both.
I took him on the 3rd attempt but the overtake was awful, to say the least I stuffed the gears up and broke the speed limit I wasn't impressed.
I think the problem is still speed and distance perception which I still have a big problem with although this seems to be better in other aspects of my driving.
Its not clear to me what is expected from the IAM test in terms of Overtaking, id have liked to have looked at this more.
So what can I do?
One of the reasons for doing the IAM was to perhaps improve my confidence in this area, Overall im a confident driver, and id say that even before IAM days.
But throughout my observed runs I only came across 2 opportunities to overtake (on single carriageway), the first one my observer asked me if I was going to overtake, i immediately said no and explained that there was too many side road junctions.
The second one was a tractor, but I dont have any problems with slow moving vehicles.
Ive not had very many opportunities to practice overtakes lately or on my observed runs, but I had a vehicle in front of me doing 40mph which i reached in a good open road which I had 2 opportunities i missed both.
I took him on the 3rd attempt but the overtake was awful, to say the least I stuffed the gears up and broke the speed limit I wasn't impressed.
I think the problem is still speed and distance perception which I still have a big problem with although this seems to be better in other aspects of my driving.
Its not clear to me what is expected from the IAM test in terms of Overtaking, id have liked to have looked at this more.
So what can I do?