Getting Comfortable At Speeds

[primal]

Originally Posted by alanmcorcoran

Primal - I watched the video. Pretty funny, but the dude used the full width of the roadway every time he made a turn - this is very poor technique to say the least. Any traffic coming in the opposite direction and he's going to have a head on collision. You have to stay on your side! Maybe this is supposed to be a one way road, but I've never seen a one way road out in the middle of nowhere. He also didn't mention the outside, inside, outside method for maximizing visibility and reducing the chances of getting clipped by someone crossing over the center line coming the other way. He did a good job on the slow down to enter and gas up to exit part.

It's a rural single-lane road in Idaho (hmm... I'm guessing in Anaheim you aren't familiar with such a thing, are you?), and certainly not a blind turn. Do you know how difficult it would be to illustrate the same concept without using the full width of the road? In fact, its the very reason he chose to go way out in the middle of nowhere to show the concept rather than on the streets in town. The actual video was itself about the placement of the "inside" of the outside-inside-outside technique.