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Friday, May 6, 2011

Location hands on the wheel

In addition to a convenient landing techniques kontravariynogo driving requires correct positioning of hands on the steering wheel - one that would ensure the freedom to manipulate the steering wheel at high speed taxiing, and in any other mode of driving.

Some drivers believe that if the arms are located in the upper part of the steering wheel (Fig. 6), thus decreasing muscular load and hands less tired.
 
 
Fig. 6. Driver's hands are placed at the top of the steering wheel

However, under such circumstances, any hand maneuvering means frequent interceptions of the steering wheel, and thus not only reduced the rate of manipulation of the steering wheel, but tired hands. It is believed that the location of hands in the lower sector of the steering wheel (Fig. 7) allows for one step to turn the steering wheel at a larger angle, however, this position prevents the simultaneous operation of two hands - turn of the wheel is actually possible to carry only one hand, the second immediately rests in the side.

 

Fig. 7. Driver's hands are placed at the bottom of the steering wheel

This position is called the "exclusion zone" and could be dangerous not only when performing tricks kontravariynogo driving, but even when driving normally.

Prevents the manipulation of a steering wheel and the diagonal arrangement of the hand (Fig. 8). This significantly decreases the angle at which you can turn the steering wheel at a time, to the same arm, located at the bottom, prevents the handle wheel.


 
Fig. 8. Driver's hands are placed on the steering wheel on the diagonal

With such a starting position his hands can never remove from the steering wheel with small turns, and at large - easily done interception (sequence of actions when working with the steering wheel is described below).

In addition to correct positioning of hands on the steering wheel, you should still learn the power of influence: if you compress the steering wheel too much (this affects mostly newcomers, trying not so much to keep the steering wheel, how to hold on to it), your hands get tired quickly, and it reduces the speed of maneuver and quality control car. If, however, compress the steering wheel is too weak (the revaluation of its driving qualities that happens), then there is no feedback from the wheels of the car, and an unexpected collision with the obstacle (eg, stone) can pull the steering wheel out of the hands and the car at the same time can lose control.

 

Fig. 9. The basic position of the driver's hands on the steering wheel
As you can see, receptions kontravariynogo driving - is not only a taxi run or work the brake and gas. They include both pre-deployment training, which should become automatic: sitting in the driver's seat, the driver automatically adjusts the seat so that the landing was correct, but the hands on the steering wheel placed in the optimal base position. This is the first skill kontravariynogo driving, and while it is not a trick of driving, but without which the application of counter emergency management techniques may be ineffective.
And, oddly enough, he needs training. After all, it happens that drivers are getting used to the fact that the hands are located in the lower or upper sector of the steering wheel or convenient to represent the intercept of the steering bar, and it can emerge at the most inopportune moment - in an extreme situation.


Once achieved the necessary automatism in planting and the location of the hands on the steering wheel, you can proceed to the next stage - the study of how to work the steering wheel.

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