Sunday, March 28, 2010

Watch out for the dreaded pre-turn.

A car that wants to turn will sometimes steer his car toward the opposite direction that they want to turn in order to gain more clearance. It can be tricky, because if you react to the first “pre-turn” by passing on the opposite side thinking that the driver is going in that direction, you can be in for a nasty surprise when all of a sudden he turns right into your path and BUMP! Also when they do a preturn, they have already made a decision to turn, they will not look again after they have made their preturn. This can happen at intersections when they want to turn either left or right, or when they want to pull into a parking garage. I had to learn about the preturn the hard way, my advice is to judge for yourself where the car is really going to turn, just by thinking like the driver and intuit where they would want to go. Easier said than done, but it all comes with experience.

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