Re: Pre-drive Checks.
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 8:35 pm
Oh really - is your car ever parked on the street? No chance someone could brush past a mirror and knock it out of alignment?
Showing passengers how to operate doors is a luxury. Checking the handbrake is on and the gear is in neutral is just basic safety. Most people do actually do that, they just don't regard it as an essential or systematic check.
Once you have a basic drill in your head, not the full 24 point one or however many it is, just half a dozen items, they play back like a little recording in your head as you get in the car and prepare to go. There's no great burden to it.
I was out with another HPC member at the weekend, in his car. I was fairly systematic about what I went through before setting off, but when he asked me 15 minutes into the drive if we had any lights on, that was the point I realised checking the position of the main light switch was one of the things I hadn't done. Mental black mark.
Showing passengers how to operate doors is a luxury. Checking the handbrake is on and the gear is in neutral is just basic safety. Most people do actually do that, they just don't regard it as an essential or systematic check.
Once you have a basic drill in your head, not the full 24 point one or however many it is, just half a dozen items, they play back like a little recording in your head as you get in the car and prepare to go. There's no great burden to it.
I was out with another HPC member at the weekend, in his car. I was fairly systematic about what I went through before setting off, but when he asked me 15 minutes into the drive if we had any lights on, that was the point I realised checking the position of the main light switch was one of the things I hadn't done. Mental black mark.