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The Art of Learning Car Driving in Chennai:
You find a driving school nearby your house and enroll for the classes. The classes for new learners starts around 5am and lasts for 28 days. You wake up early to hit the road in the car you drive for the first time.. (1/n)
The Art of Learning Car Driving in Chennai:
You find a driving school nearby your house and enroll for the classes. The classes for new learners starts around 5am and lasts for 28 days. You wake up early to hit the road in the car you drive for the first time.. (1/n)
That is when you realise that 5 am is not so early when atleast 15 learners await outside the driving school. The school has 3 cars ( mostly Indica / Swift Dzire ) at max each with 4 seating capacity apart from the instructor. If you are lucky enough, the instructor calls (2/n)..
.. you by name and hands out the card with your attendance sheet and asks to get in. The instructor is usually a long-time cab-driver or a retired public bus driver in their late 40's. The on-ward journey is for 1km and then its your turn and the comes your turn (3/n)..
You get all excited to take the driver's seat for the first time. With all the rilled up excitement you hold the steering wheel for which you get yelled at.
The Most Unconventional Driving instructions of all ( !!??!!).. (4/n)
The Most Unconventional Driving instructions of all ( !!??!!).. (4/n)
Remove your footwear.
💭 Serioulsy wtf. You are left with no choice but to remove it. It is an untold ritual for you to learn driving with not footwear. If asked for logical reason, the instructor instructs that you need to feel the accelerator pedal when you hit it... (5/n)
💭 Serioulsy wtf. You are left with no choice but to remove it. It is an untold ritual for you to learn driving with not footwear. If asked for logical reason, the instructor instructs that you need to feel the accelerator pedal when you hit it... (5/n)
... The effect of this can still be seen in current drivers. Most of the people I have travelled with tend to remove their footwear even before starting the car.
💭 It gives you a strange feel of how speed you drive based on how hard the pedal is engaged... (6/n)
💭 It gives you a strange feel of how speed you drive based on how hard the pedal is engaged... (6/n)
💭 Speedometer renders to be useless for them. The feel of the pedal gives the sense of how fast the vehicle is moving.
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