WhoseGeneration wrote:However, back to you and your journey towards licenced driving. Go Karts?, hmm, designed for competitive driving, something you said you were not interested in and here you reference them in terms of control response.
I often drove them when I was younger, as I was part of an organisation that organised days out for deaf children, so I have plenty of experience of them. However, I'm still not keen on competitive driving as a hobby. It was more just a bit of fun between friends.
The K12 Micra, my wife has one, the hot one and it's a modern ECU controlled car which means you have to be on it to boss it. Your instructor will not allow that.
Eh?
Ask your instructor to let you have the owners manual to read and then you'll come to a greater understanding of the systems, although the manual doesn't explain some of the braking systems, EBD and NBAS and your learner Micra will not have the ESP my wife's does.
Nah, it's a Micra. I'd be impressed if it even had disk brakes anywhere!
There's a point to the old AD way with brakes, pedal push before moving to ensure there's some and then the running brake test, to get a feel for the particular vehicle and that braking is balanced. There's also an argument, even in these days of split braking systems, for a running test of the emergency brake.
I do prod the brakes when starting, but the instructor certainly didn't mention anything about running brake tests.
Remember, modern stuff is set up for the average driver and emissions stuff.
That's why modern performance cars have selectable modes.
My basic rule is, lack of a cable from pedal to throttle means there's going to be a programmed input involved.
Indeed.
Have fun finding out which is what those here do, although always in a responsible manner.
Already have come to conflict with my parents over how I drive!
I drove on the A419 on Saturday and Sunday on the way to and from Liverpool (Was only a part of the journey, obviously!) and I was doing a GPS 70/71 (indicated 75), and my parents were moaning at me for doing 71, despite the fact they completely failed to notice that I'd taken into account my inexperience, and thus, was leaving a following gap of 3 to 4 seconds.
Their moaning was done whilst my father proceeds to drive at 69 mph on the motorway, and following so closely to the car in front that I didn't even manage to reach "a" in that phrase "only a fool breaks the two second rule"
Also, the fact I was slowing down for corners off the dual carriageway (on the twisties) using acceleration sense, and only touching the brakes every now and then, seemed to go straight over their heads.
Along with the fact I barely cracked 20 mph through our village because it has plenty of narrow roads and blind bends.
*facepalm*
Parents, huh?