Tips for Making Turns in a Car

Video Transcript

"My name is Kevin Woods on behalf of expertvillage.com; phone number (314) 584-0116. Having your hands at 9:00 o'clock, 3:00 o'clock is most important because really your hands come right back to 9:00 to 3:00 o'clock. You already know what you are going to do, so I am going to do this turn real slow and this is called a hand over hand and turn. You hold the wheel and you let the wheel go at the right time. The slower you go, the slower the wheel will come back. The faster you go, the faster the wheel will come back. When you are going slow, if you need to help the wheel come back, I share with students that you need to pull the wheel back to the right, use the right hand and pull down. If you need to pull the wheel back to the left, use the left hand. I try to advise the students when you are turning and the wheel comes back, don't force the wheel back too fast or you can run into the curb and hit someone. What we are getting ready to do is make another right hand turn. At this time the stop sign is kind of far back so you have to go up some and take a look and this is called the hand over hand method. The left hand is at 3:00 o'clock and the right hand to 9:00 o'clock and pull twice, hold the wheel until it is time to start straightening her back up. Most students struggle with the push, pull and slide. They get the hand over hand and most students start off already knowing the hand over hand, because they watched their parents do it. But what I try to instill, I say there is two ways to turn that you need out here because there is a time for push, pull and slide and there is a time for hand over hand. You don't want to be doing push, pull and slide when its time for hand over hand. Most right tuns are good but for hand over hand because your turns are sharper on making a right turn. Most left turns are simpler or less challenging than right turns. Left turns you should really just pull the wheel down twice."