Stephen wrote:If you want to learn them all [steering techniques] then go onto a track and get someone to show you and practice and see what benefit they hold or do not hold.
Only a police driver would suggest going on track to practice steering techniques other than PP. why this obsession with anything other than PP being fit only for the track, at least to start with, and the only place to practice it initially?
Only this week I had a new associate whose steering has been completed screwed up by instructors on a blue light emergency vehicle course. Steering was PP all the time, everywhere, but what made it terrible was that it was shuffle-shuffle everywhere. Steering was all over the place. Steering was as unsmooth and disjointed as it is possible to imagine. Even the course instructors were saying to the associate that the steering wasn't smooth, but had no way of resolving the problem, presumably because there was no nearby track to go and practice on! Not to put too fine a point on it the steering was a mess. well, it was a mess until we stopped the car and I suggested holding the steering wheel at a quarter to three, not ten to two, using fixed grip steering and concentrating on trying to achieve a single steering input to take us through the bend. Steering was utterly transformed. It is now accurate, smooth and with the car under much better control at all times. All this was achieved on the road in less than half an hour with other vehicles about and absolutely no drama.
PS: PP and rotational are still in the associate's tool box but are firmly in their place for use at speeds of less than 25mph.