Steering | Don't Look in Front! 

Some of your videos properly give me the stressed feeling of when I was still learning to drive. Trying to do ten things at once! ARGH.

I think it sounds like a TON of information because it actually is! We take for granted all of these things we do automatically now as drivers.

This comes down to what my mum said to me ever since I started walking, look where you're going

Passed today with 3 minors 😁

I watch these videos as a reminder sometimes. So easy to get complacent, music on, thinking about your dinner, whatever. I'm not the greatest driver but there's some lunatics out there man.

I got used to that concept a long time ago whilst playing racing games, but when driving my car in real life it wasn't really something I practiced. It was only after I started riding a motorcycle that I got used to looking as far forward as possible and now it is done automatically on my bike and in my car. One other upside of that is: there is less surprises now in front of me on the straights as well.

I was taught look where you want to go but really don't look at what you want to avoid otherwise you will hit it. That works especially for a motorbike but also for cars.

In the category "driving with blinders on" 🐎 Not looking to the left, not looking to the right, not looking in the mirrors. Zombie drivers: not aware of their surroundings. Good thing you intervened, because it starts with this and with hood staring

Look further ahead, not just in front of your vehicle Avoid accidents by having time to anticipate and not react last second

Excellent! I wish my instructor told me this before going to the roundabout lesson today. Ashley Neal, your explanations are amazing! Keep it up.

Your use of learning tools is exceptional. It helps paint a clear image of what you're explaining. I personally had issues of not knowing where to look and often looking at the floor when I was learning. Took me months to grow the confidence to look up

Biggest thing in driving is to look where you want to go as this is where you will tend to steer, in general driving this will also allow you to scan your peripheral, other than that checking your mirrors before any change in speed or direction that isn't an absolute emergency and doing shoulder checks when taking off or, I would argue, when merging slowly or changing lanes when your relative speeds are close, always good to make sure nobodies in your blind spot and it can be done really quickly!

Wow incredible little app you've got there to demonstrate how she was driving and how to improve it! Wish I had this much in-depth analysis on my driving lessons 😔, great visual learning there perfect as always. Ashley

It's this sort of thing why I think a skidpad/spin and slide lesson would seriously help drivers. To control a slide, you NEED to look where you want to go, not forwards. You end up looking out the side windows, not the windscreen.

Back when Dinosaurs still roamed I was taking driving lessons and can't recall being taught like this. I've been trying to work out why....... One of two possibilities here. Either: 1) A natural instinct for car control; 2) Piloting experience (power glider) where many skills were learned that, perhaps, were transferable to benefit road use....... First time I've mentioned this but its given me cause to reflect. I was very fortunate to have this opportunity. Whatever the reason, I'm still glad to be a subscriber to this channel - with a view to self-improvement. It would be interesting, from Ashley's opinion, to see how good or bad I really am! Good luck Beth..... I would like to bet that you pass first time 😊. Stay safe everyone 👍.

This is incredible advice. I suppose for learners though, if they're nervous, they might be feeling a little overly stressed and then tunnel vision sets in. I remember after my accident, my rider anxiety was making me have a physical reaction to similar events which made me more tense and meant I didn't act naturally.

Another thing, on the corner cutting subject... I'm quite aware of people (myself included) cutting corners, and have made an effort to stop doing that. It's become such a big problem actually that the term "Mayor's turn" has been coined officially for cutting across the oncoming lane while turning.

Another tiny lesson in this. _You don't have to leave the roundabout._ So guys, when you find yourself in the wrong lane, please don't cut across traffic to make it. Just do another lap.

Look where you are going applies to riding horses in 10 & 20 metre circles too, rather than just looking straight ahead between the horses ears🐎🙂

As someone who learned to ride a bike at a young age, it becomes second nature controlling vehicles in this way such that I never even knew this was a thing. Great tip for learners though.

I've been using this technique on track days for a numbers of years now and I forgot how natural looking far became on the road. Take the speed up and onto a circuit I suddenly found myself looking forward and not at where I want to go (I.e apex of a corner). I particularly like the App you have, a great tool!

Great video and I love the graphics you used to explain the problem. Watching this last night actually gave me a clue on why one of my students was struggling with what I’ve been working on as two seperate issues but is actually one. Thank you.

A1 Coaching, trusted learning and teaching us too. Many thanks Ash. Great channel for my pupil's reference library and home work too! Big help. 🚸🎯

I remember making the same mistake as a learner (many years ago). Also, since switching from a conventional hatchback to a small(ish) mpv I now have a massive pillar where I need to look across...in some situations. Honda put a tiny triangular window up front but IMO it doesn’t compensate. I have to sometimes lean forward to see round the pillar.

Not meaning to sound like I'm blowing my own trumpet here but I don't do this I always look far, took some practise though and it is a confidence thing and that comes with experience, keep up the good work with your pupils 👍

Very interesting discussion. Thanks for sharing with us Beth and well done, it felt like lovely smooth use of the controls there - listening to the engine note through headphones was very relaxing!

Driving an LGV forces you to look and read the road way ahead, failing to do that can really get you in a pickle.

Wow that explanation is really good. To be fair, I've never needed this sort of instructions for the turnings, maybe because I have riden my bike on the road for a year before the test and because of videogames.It's kind of always been second nature for me But really, super good explanation Ashley

Im guessing you probably wouldnt agree but i did driving lessons 10 years ago and after all that time ive decided to go for my licence without any formal teacher. Ive taken alot of advixe from RU-vid and mainly you ashley. Going for my test in 2 days. Ill keep you updated, thanks!

Can't say i've ever looked forward and not in the direction the car was going...even when I was learning a decade ago...I mean it's just so natural to look down the road you're turning into and not where you know you won't be travelling (Once you know it's clear to reach the junction of course). Honestly I think people cut corners and turn early out of laziness, not because they aren't looking properly. After all, you can take the corners faster if you have less of a turn to take, that's ultimately why people cut corners...it's "faster" in their minds, whereas a completely 90 degree turn will need to be slowed down for more. Personally I think it's common sense after you've had a few lessons and some hours on the road...people who have been driving for years should do this naturally...I now worry that this is the case for a lot of drivers, and I don't understand why it's a problem lol.

As always, great video! You see so many people cutting corners, I probably do it myself without even noticing 😂 some great tips to be taken here! 🖒

I have had this conversation with others regarding where to look when negotiating a turn many times, hence why i don't chop off junctions and cut corners.

Such a great video, so simple yet so effective! Thanks for this

Wow that app usage really helped you explain that to both her and the audience. That's a really great app you have (made?). That's also a really good learning point, since I feel most of us here can say they mounted a couple of curbs in the past, after getting their license

what she says at the end is very important also. Roundabouts can feel very pressured, you don't need to escape it ASAP, it's ok

You really are good at your job.

Look where you want to go, steer where you want to go. That includes during slipping. Look far ahead, but that is difficult when you haven't got much experience yet. If you can't look far ahead, slow down.

Best piece of advice when I first started learning was to not focus on anything in particular and to just look ahead, not over the bonnet of the car

I did the same thing in my first lesson, and even on the straights only looking where I am and not where I was going to be.

Well done, Beth!

I wonder if people are struggling with positioning on turns and junctions now because they didn't grow up riding bicycles which teaches you about positioning, it becomes ingrained if you start very young.

This is just me but maybe it applies to this. But I always look we’re I’m going, not where I am, if that makes sense. If you can see a hazard further up the 150 yards up the road than if it was 50 yards then there’s so much more time to react to it.

"look where you want to go" very quickly became the mantra of the host of Canada's Worst Driver. It turned out that a very large fraction of errors made by the "contestants" were exactly this. Looking at the wrong place.

If your head hasn’t been there 2 seconds before don’t put your self there - motorbike safe fast riding - applies to cars too !

Hi Ashley, I watch all your vids (subscriber I am), but this is my first time writing to you. I have a question... Why is it that people negotiating roundabouts think that you can indicate right whilst moving around the roundabout, but whichever exit you want does not require the left hand indicator to be used. Who teaches them, eh? And I don’t mean you!

As someone who lives down south, very surreal to see a clearly ex-B&H bus at 1:20!

Always signal. You don't know who is around hwo could benefit. Signal is as helpful to a pedestrian

Unfortunately, there are plenty of people who hold full licences who do this. Hence why mandatory CBT/125cc should be taken before driving lessons/test. I'm not saying we're superior, but my CBT instructor nearly failed me - afterwards I mentioned about doing it in my driving lessons and he said a full bike licence is an advanced driving level - he instructs both advanced drivers and bikers, very knowledgeable guy. Back to the point, you're forced to look ahead in traffic, otherwise you'll physically fall off the bike.

What is that app you're using?

What app was that please Ashley?

Legend has it that Beth wore out the inside markings of the roundabout.

Anyone else get dizzy on that roundabout...

If that black car was there would I still go past it?

Hi, I have just watched a video "6 things you should unlearn from your driving test" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nhQPBSa2w9k.html Do you agree with any of the point made like telling people they SHOULD cross their hands on the wheel and not to use the handbrake?

look at where you want to go not at what your going to hit