1) General awareness/anticipation
Depends on mood, early in the day very rubbish and as a result I drive very carefully, later in the day I'm very aware of everything, rarely get suprised by anything.
2) Parking ability
Parking is easy peasy, no problems pushing myself through tiny gaps either. I don't get why people have trouble, you get used to your car in no time and it's all repetition. Then again, I have to park the work van about 20 times per day on working days and that's all in busy town/city areas so I've had a lot of practise.
3) Brakes/Clutch control - nice and smooth or bucking bronco?
Brake - Brake at last moment often
Clutch- Very smooth
4) How patient and courteous are you to other road users?
Depends on if I'm in a hurry or pooting around at CC/calmly.
If I'm in a hurry I often take large risks and have 0 patience, overtaking at any chance possible, people who don't see me usually get a blast of the horn and I'll first try to evade/pass people rather than braking for them, only brake when really neccesary, always take the right of way then I have it.
But when I'm driving calmly, I usually let cyclists or peds or other cars out first, don't mind people not keeping to the right, and don't mind waiting on people or braking for their mistakes.
5) What is your knowledge of the Highway Code?
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6) High speed control of your car in dry conditions
I believe it's fine, I make it no secret I think speed limtis are rubbish and at night you'll often find me doing speeds that would make me lose my license ( usually keep it just at the 50 kph over the limit, but I occasionally when there's no-one around just floor it and go as I please, when there's not a car in sight on the motorway behind or ahead of me ), during the day I usually keep it at 10-20kph above limit on motorways and up to 10 kph over in urban areas. All a matter of looking as far ahead as you can, checking mirrors often, and subtle steering.
7) " wet/icy conditions
Overconfident, bad, stupid. All my close calls/ near accidents/misjudgements that would be my fault were always when wet/icy/snowy. Usually involved me approaching a junction a bit to fast and only just having enough space to brake, or entering a corner way to fast and going straight ahead due to understeer. Always managed to correct it pretty quickly but still... Grip is **** when wet and especially in the beginning I forgot that from time to time, these days I just drive like granps in rain.
8) Your ability to correct your car when out of shape
So far so good, managed to evade someone over the grass at high speed, never lost control of the car except when acting silly on empty parking lots or industrial estates at night ( sideways action going not as planned
). But not in any normal driving situation.
General opinion of myself is that I'm sometimes to impatient, I should generally drive more carefully and economically and brake/roll out sooner, and not get so frustrated by people not keeping to the right or them generally being indecisive when I'm in a hurry. I believe the biggest danger is when I'm on the road just after getting up, while driving calmly early in the day I clearly notice in retrospect that my awareness/anticipation is crap, my reactions are crap, and that an accident is around the corner while I see awkward situations coming up from a mile away once I'm awake later on.