On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Bob Blick wrote: > How can you train for that? I don't want to accumulate sufficient > experience with children running into the street. I think too many of > them would get hit before I learned. I am happy to have ABS. As a side note I do not agree the situation here in Ireland where they do not teach children how to behave on the road and even near to the road. When I was very young I clearly remember they were teaching these things at the creche. They were teaching us what does it mean traffic lights, to not run after the ball when it goes on the road, that we have to look around before crossing the road and that we should not enter to the road in front of a parking car or a bus that is in the bus stop. Here they are running all around my car while I am trying to park, so many times I have to wait staying still for minutes before they get bored about chasing my car so tat I can reverse. The parents are just watching them and they do not say anything -- that is so weird for me. Anyway, so if you stick to the word "train", there are specialized driving schools -- not the ordinary one that makes you through the driving tests, but advanced curses that you can take volunteerely. There are many different lessons from taxi drivers through specialized ones like how to drive on ice to rally or racing car drivers. I did not take any unfortunately. But I was talking to my father through the night many many times, and was reading books about driving techniques including defense style driving to even about slight rally techniques. Books can help as well as what my father advised: Until you are a beginner every time you arrive home think over all the situations happened on the road, what did you do wrong, and how it should have been done or avoid the situation completely. I think driving is like skiing: You can never be perfect, but you can always perfecting it :-) Tamas -- /* www.mcuhobby.com */ int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s="/* www.mcuhobby.com */ int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=%s%s%s, q=%s%s%s%s,s,q,q,a=%s%s%s%s,q,q,q,a,a,q); }", q="\"",s,q,q,a="\\",q,q,q,a,a,q); } -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist