Ideas on Transport

For those who want to learn to drive, it is always advisable toenroll in car driving lessons first.

Myworkmate,who is stingy when it comes to expenses other than travels,made a big mistake by not following this helpfuladvice.

Last year,while learning to drive, she even pickeda motorcycle as her first training vehicle, with her brother as the instructor, she tripped on the road's gutter and lost control. She crashed into the nearby solid wall.

Fortunately, she only had broken bones in herright leg and somebruises in her arms. Her bills, though,were a lot more than what she could have paid for her driving classes. Plus, the amount of the badly damaged motorcycle, which she had to pay her brother for. It was actually a lesson toher, and to all those who think there's a quickway to learning to drive.

Driving a motorcycle, for one, is very dangerous even to those who already know how to do it. It is even more dangerous to those who are still.

So, it is always better to learnthe basics. One way of learninghow to drive a motorcycle is through listening carefully to the instructor, and onlytrying it once everything is fully understood.

It also helpsto remaincalm all the time while on the wheels, especially when things go a bit wrong. This way you allow yourself to focus on what you could possibly do to avert the situation.

An instructor, I remember when I had my classes before, would always tellme being hisstudent that "driving is easy." Butsince you are not alone in the streets,that even if you don't hit anyone because you'realways watching your way, chances of being hit by anotherdriveris high. Of the 10 drivers in the street, it is likely that only two of them actually took driving classes, which means those eight do not follow traffic laws like those two do.

Hence, an instructorwould often say, "drive defensively," don't just focus on your driving, but also those around you, as you being a learned driver may not bump on another one, one of those eight reckless drivers would get you.

Driving always involves thebody and the mind. Without one, it's a disaster waiting to happen.