Defensive Driving

The Famous Saying :

Dim yong piu yi?

Cheh da wan go xi hao,

Lai ya lai sau zhai

Cheh biao ya biao

Gum zhao dim ?

Ying ah ma......

Translation:

How do you drift?

When the car is turning

Turn the stearing wheel

Let the car swerve a bit

So what?

It cool ma!!!


okok...i know..very lame ma right?right?right?
I know you are thinking that this very instant...

right?


Enough crapping..Anyways, today I managed to DRIFT in my car!!!!!!!!!!!
hehe...well sort of anyways



err....




actually it was more like my car skidded uncontrollably


hehe..I attended the defensive driving course together with my mom today at MBSA Shah Alam stadium and it was well, an eye-opener.

First he showed us some videos on some really tragic car crashes and we talked about some car safety stuff we didin't know about

For example, did you know that :

1. The pen in your shirt pocket can actually pierce your heart thus killing you in a car accident
2. Other stuff in your car e.g stuffed toys, air refresheners can act as projectiles that can injure you when you are involved in a car crash.
3. You have almost absolutely no control of your car when you emergency break in a non-abs car going about 60 km/h
4. Crashing into a wall at 80 km/h is equivalent to dropping a car from a 12 storey high building

All these stuff kinda created an awareness in me about car safety. Watching the video where a car crashed into a wall at only 80 km/h made me feel like taking buses and trains instead of driving. After the talk, we proceeded to the practical course which was more fun. First we did the SLALOM. hehe..sounds like some kind of fish that is closely related to salmon right? It is actually an excercise where they put cones on the ground and the driver is suppose to weave in and out of the cones.(just like football practice). This excercise was quite easy. That was until our driving instructor, Sean Khoo made us do the reverse slalom. It is exactly like the slalom but we reverse instead, and we are only suppose to use our mirrors.

Later on, we did the emergency break excercise. This is where we go around 70 km/h and then break suddenly and try to avoid an obstacle. Sounds easy right? Not when you are driving a car without abs system. Took me 4 tries to get it right. In the first 2 tries, I didn't turn in time and hit the cone which represented a person. So I actually killed 2 people...

At around 2.30pm, dad arrived in his Toyota Camry just in time for the skidding excercise. BTW, this is my first time ever driving my dads car which is sooooo much nicer than my kenari. waaa, the power steering was really nice.*drools*.Anyways, this is where I "drifted".It was really fun man...Imagine yourself going fast then suddenly turning almost 180 degrees. Twice I made the car "drift" 360 degrees.. Just like in Need for Speed..

Before long, it was the end of the course and we had to go home..wished I could do the skidding excercise a few more times.......