'A DRIVER WILL BECOME COMPETENT WHEN HE SUSPECTS THAT HE MAKES MISTAKES'.
Returning to the formal study of successfully driving a motor car with due care, a good driver occasionally will realise that he is 'not in form': a sensation when basic actions are not quite as precise and thoughts not as spontaneous. A realisation that driving a car is not easy, more laboured. Perhaps many drivers never have experienced this sensation and never knew that the symptom exists. This is because they have never taken the trouble applying their mind to the detail of 'attitude' whilst sitting behind the wheel of a car. It could be a state of mind following an illness, hospitalisation - far detached from the aggression and speed of the outside world. Returning and overcoming this challenge is not easy. However, the cure is simple.
Without repeating all the details , suffice is checking the basic details in 1288.
The seat's position, hands on the wheel, arms nicely flexed, mirror exactly positioned, feet comfortable, gear changing precise, double de-clutch technique precise, slowly at the commencement of every journey and concentration at its best.
Checking your car, however minimal, giving it a wash; always it feels better when it is clean and, the section on parking is most imperative and informative, a part of driving which can be done slowly. Parking is an art, you will not be surprised to hear, and watching the antics of people trying to park, it is obvious that never have they read 1288!
There are six pages and as many figures explaining the intricacies of parking.
'Be wary of success. To have succeeded is completing one's driving career. Keep learning. Keep improving. Keep living'.