The reason they want you to have your foot on the clutch and in gear at lights is if someone rear ends you, the car will theoretically stall when your foot comes off the clutch, preventing your car from proceeding to enter an intersection.
With regard to changing gears in a corner, it is bad practice. You should be in the appropriate gear prior to turning in. When approaching a turn, either change down by clutching it (matching revs) to make for a smoother down change, or just put it in gear. Greg On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 22:16, james wade wrote: > I got my licence in an auto becase I was slack and I can drive an > manual? Or cant i? I suggest you do one lesson with an instructor just > to make sure you know what your looking for. > -jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Paul Stanley > Sent: Monday, 18 November 2002 9:31 PM > To: OZDAT Mailing list > Subject: driving manual > > I got pulled over today by some police because I had no front plate > since I > had it off for painting... and I forgot I was still on learners for > manual > license... the cop let me off 2 tickets... one being technically > unlicensed. The only other time I got pulled over was for a U-turn at > lights with no U-turn permitted sign... I actually didnt know about that > law > at the time.. .they let me off. I got nothing against police at all... > if > you dont do anything stupid they normally let you off... > > I never actually read the road rules specific to driving manuals. > Should I > read up or are there just some basic pointers I should keep in mind, > because > I want to go get my manual license. Something about chaging gears too > late, > or during a corner? It's not that easy in my Datto because if you try > and > make a turn in 3rd you havent got enough power, and if you change back > to > second before the turn you have to be doing about 30... so I guess I'll > be > corning either really fast or really slow for the test. > > I am also told that when you are stopped at lights etc you should be in > first gear with the clutch in... I can do that. > > > From: Paul Stanley > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
