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Overtaking is easy, right? I am afraid not. Overtaking is a hugely risky move in a vehicle and should be always treated with respect and only performed in optimal circumstances.
The general rule of overtaking should really be that you want to spend as little as time as possible on the wrong side of the road, in order to reduce the risk of the manoeuvre.
So where, when, how and what speed should you overtake another vehicle on the road? Well, there is no straight answer to that one Im afraid, it depends on a multitude of factors, most likely the following:
Your driver skill and experience first and foremost
Whether or not you can legally overtake, i.e. broken white lines
Whether or not you can see far enough ahead to determine if any traffic is oncoming
The performance of your car, and more importantly understanding that performance in a given situation and gear!
Driver Skill and Experience
If you are a learner driver or have recently only passed your test, then I'm afraid that you really shouldn't be travelling fast enough to require overtaking manoeuvres at any significant speed. You should still be building your confidence and skill of just physically "driving" your car and all that entails (breaking distances, cornering speeds, parking etc, basically the fundamentals). Your aim should be to become more "at home" with your driving and your vehicle, nothing more.
If on the other hand you have relevant experience then we will assume you have normal reactions, are comfortable in your vehicle and your abilities to control that vehicle (this cannot be true for learner or newly passed drivers in my opinion), then we can move on
Overtaking: The Manoeuver
So you are travelling at or under the speed limit and are fully aware of what your vehicle is capable of in a given gear and situation and have the necessary experience to be fully confident behind the wheel. You are driving along and up ahead you see a vehicle that is travelling at a slower speed than you are. Let us take it from here regarding an overtake on this vehicle.
Firstly, you should not speed up in order to "be up to speed" or "try and make it before a bend". You just keep travelling at your normal speed so that the car in front of you has time to see you coming in their rear-view mirror (that they should be will be checking in every 10-15 seconds or so, but you cannot assume this!).
You should only make the decision to overtake once you are behind the vehicle in front (legal braking distance that is!), not 200 metres back as you were "gaining speed". Once you have crossed the broken white lines, and have a clear view up ahead, which means enough space to pull out, overtake, pull back in without any pressure whatsoever, you indicate, make the pass and move back in front of the slower vehicle.
Depending on the speed of the vehicle in front you might have had to change down a gear, in order to maximise your acceleration while overtaking. I dont mean acceleration in terms of a 0-60mph sprint, but in a way that has your vehicle in the best gear for your speed in order to pass in the quickest possible time and get back to the correct side of the road. Experienced drivers will know their cars in this respect, according to their speed. If you do not understand this principle or do not know your vehicle capabilities then you should not attempt to overtake. All too often you seen someone pulling out and it is clear that they had no idea of what gear they should have been in, as they seem to spend an eternity on the manoeuvre as they had no power/acceleration from the vehicle as they were in too high a gear for the slow speed once they began to overtake. In an emergency situation, there is nowhere for any of the vehicles to go but into each other and it is extremely dangerous.
Another reason this might happen is that the person overtaking does not want to break the speed limit and creeps by the vehicle in front and is in the same position as the wrong gear driver. My question here is, why did you feel the need to overtake if the vehicle in front was travelling at the speed limit? This again comes down to driving experience and there is no substitute for this other than time behind the wheel.
The amount of time spent overtaking another vehicle should be no longer than 10 seconds or so from indicating and pulling out, to returning to your own side of the road after a successful overtake. Any longer than this and you are putting yourself and the other driver at unnecessary risk. So remember, while overtaking, BE BRISK, REDUCE THE RISK.
Graham Hillis is a motoring expert who publishes article for leading Automotive publications.
See more of his work at http://www.irishdriver.ie
Lotus At Paris Motor Show 2010 PART 2
After a few years since the release of the last model from Lotus, the Elise, the company is back in 2010 at the Paris Motor Show. We revealed in the first part of the article the concept Lotus brought, concepts that will see the light of the day in the upcoming years. Cars like the Esprit, Eterne, Elise and the Elite, with big engines and incredible acceleration amazed the people at the show, but there is another car presented by Lotus that made a very positive impression, the City Car Concept.
This will be the first car developed by Lotus that is "planet-friendly", which is very important nowadays in the world of automobiles where the tendency is to go green. The City Car Concept is a 3,086 lb, 3 door, 4-seat, compact car that features a front-mounted, range-extending gasoline engine and of course, a rear-mounted electric motor that powers the rear axle. The battery of the automobile is fitted underneath the passenger compartment.
The total power output of this small car is quite impressive with its 162 kW (220 PS) and 240 Nm of torque (although the continuous power figure is a more modest 54 kW). The range based only upon the electric engine is 60 km (37 miles) and with the gasoline 1.2 liter engine it grows to an impressive figure of 500 km (311 miles). The 1.2 liter petrol/gasoline engine is a flex-fuel power plant that is able to run also on methanol or ethanol. The car has a sprint to 100 km/h in 9 seconds and 0 to 50 is done in 4.5 seconds which is very good for the city, where these cars shine the most. The co2 emissions of the Lotus City Car Concept are very greenish at only 60 g/km and 0 if the car runs only with the electrical engine.
As far as the design is concerned, the concept comes with a glass roof, carbon fiber touches, leather and the cabin upholstery is in a prime green and yellow tartan fabric. The chief engineer at Lotus, Wolf Zimmerman, told the Autocar magazine that the company is looking for a partner to start producing the car from 2014 and forward. Zimmerman also affirmed that he wishes Lotus to manufacture a city car similar to the Aston Martin Cygnet which will become a production model in 2010 and will be sold at an estimated price of $35.000. "Lotus Design has created a vehicle that condenses the essence of Lotus into a low carbon city car, with many inspired design touches," said Dany Bahar, Group Lotus CEO, in a company press release.
From a quick look at the Paris Motor Show, the future of city cars looks promising with the Smart, Mini, City Car Concept and the Aston Martin Cygnet. Small cars with low fuel consumption, 0 co2 emissions is the tendency in the future, but we all hope that real supercars will not be replaced by these minis, because an automotive world without fast cars is useless.
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