(Hours 119 & 120)

While driving today I suddenly thought of a solution to help me overcome my fears... to make use of the car machines in the arcades and not the bike ones I usually go on! I've been told before just to treat driving as if I was playing a game, but like most things in life, it's easier said than done. One of the major disadvantages I have is my reaction time.. my mind registers information at a slower pace than what is required by a normal driver and this is one of the things that are stopping me from progressing. This also explains why my manoeuvres are better than my road driving.

A few months back I saw a simulator in the BSM centre and enquired about it because I had never seen one before. It looks just like an arcade machine but is for learners who have not yet drove on the road, and it gives them a bit of knowledge about a car and the basic steps to driving. I was amazed to hear what it did and I was a little disappointed I didn't know about it before I started learning. Obviously there's not much difference now since I have been manually taught these rules, but maybe it could have helped?