FloridaJim57
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Who has it and how have you overcome it? Any advice welcome!
Yes! That's the #2 thing the pro schools teach.Yes on look where you want to go.
Because that IS where you will go!
Especially on those 2 lane roads.
Who has it and how have you overcome it? Any advice welcome!
Who has it and how have you overcome it? Any advice welcome!
My fear is all of the idiots on the road doing anything BUT driving. Texting, streaming, applying makeup, etc. I spend my “quality time” driving on a race track with other cars doing 140+ mph, but I have confidence that the other drivers are alert, watching the road and their mirrors, and fully understand the consequences of their actions. The drive home, on the other hand, is much more scary!
As someone who drives on multi lane interstates pretty much everywhere every day, the way I have always dealt with this is I am somewhat of an aggressive driver, meaning I drive faster than the average traffic. It is easier to cross multiple lanes of traffic if you are going at least as fast or faster. It is very difficult to do if you are going slower.My only concern on limited access highways interstates, major state roads) are spots where I have to cross completely across 3 or more lanes in less than 2 miles on a busy highway. You try to depend on the kindess on other drivers seeing your directional signal and giving you a break, but around major cities that tends to be the exception rather than the rule.
Other than that, as long as I am well rested, I can handle things, though I will talk to myself on I-95 from New Jersey across the GW Bridge and the Cross-Bronx Expressway .
On two lane roads, which there are many in my area, the main concern with oncoming traffic is bad weather. One reason I am glad I have no need to be out and about during or after an ice or snow storm .
I applaud the cars that come down the ramp like a scalded rat. Good job.Same principle with on ramps. If you speed up to the speed of traffic or even a tad faster you will always be able to get in. If you on ramp slower than traffic hoping some one slows down and let’s you in that is really stressful as you have no control.
One thing the pro racing schools teach (and I have been to a couple) and I have coached from time to time is the driver's eye point. Most drivers are looking too close to the car. This makes it feel like things are happening too fast, causes a lot of steering wheel movements, and is very tiring. At highway speeds we are traveling at around 100 feet per second, so looking inside that 100 feet is a waste of mental energy; you cannot react fast enough to do anything anyway.
So the prescription for that (if that is the problem) is to make a game out of trying to minimize steering wheel movements. To do this, one must move their eye point farther and farther ahead of the car, making earlier but smaller and smaller steering corrections. Infrequent and small correction are much more relaxing and make it feel like things are happening more slowly and comfortably.
A good example is driving in a lane with traffic cones on both sides. Looking well ahead it will be obvious that there is plenty of space between the lines of cones but looking close to the car makes it feel like the cones are closing in and maybe attacking.
I had an employee once who bought a sporty car that his wife initially hated because the steering felt too quick, the car was darty, and it made her nervous. A week of two of learning to look farther ahead and trying to minimize steering wheel movements solved the problem.
This eye point stuff may have nothing to do with the OP's fear of highway driving, but then it might. Some time spent trying to drive with minimum steering wheel movement should tell the tale.
I am actually too focused that way. DW has to watch the ditches for deer as I'll never see them.