I have a bad sense of direction when driving.?
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My sister has this problem too!  It's pretty common - it's something to do with how a woman's mind comprehends spacial awareness (although why my friend, Gary, has this problem nobody knows).  Did you know that most women cannot learn to fly helicopters because of how their brain works?  It's just part of human nature - like how men act like they are dying if they catch a cold.\nTo be honest the only way to improve this is practice.  If you go out and make a mistake don't worry - it's all part opf learning!  Just try again until you improve.  By asking you are doing a sensible thing - like you said most people like to help.  \nIt might be worth stocking upon maps and planning routes before you start out on a journey.  \nIt might also be worthwhile just to go out on random circuitous journeys to get a feel for different kinds of roads and how they relate to maps and directions.\nAnd the most important point - DON'T WORRY  if you worry you will make more mistakes and will not learn as much as if you are happy and confident.\nYou can do it if you believe you can!
1108535
i used to get motion sickness when we drove around windy roads...like up through canyons, ghost towns...etc. A teacher of mine suggested i take along a lemon and suck on it. Guess what, it worked !!....much better than drugs
814219
sounds like a good practice to me, a warning to other drivers the vehicle has a blind spot
1069313
Yes. You need to learn. You can. Everyone else can. I've seen some really bad drivers too.
357537
no,not since I now drive with a baby on board. I've tried to sharpen my defensive driving techniques.
186436
are you blind ,if not drive around.
679293
i can relate! have you ever driven? i used to love to drive, it was the one thing i could never imagine giving up. then panic attacks and vertigo took over. its been over 3 years since i had a license. i'm taking little drives now on just the backroads at night and not far from the house, and not alone just in case i panic. i want to drive again. i didnt ask for this and i dont want it, but its going to be a long road back to feeling what other people call "normal". if you need someone to talk to i'm here.
125536
Speed.  Specifically, someone else's driving.  I try to desensitize myself to it by letting other people drive, but it hasn't helped much.
129269
Get someone to drive you to the doctor or ER right away. Best if you don't drive yourself if you are dizzy, since it could be so many different things, some of them quite serious.  Most likely it is a middle ear infection or some virus, but in case it is blood pressure related, or some kind of seizure on-coming, ask a friend to take you in now.  Good luck--you will be fine!
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Try just driving around quiet streets, if there are any in your area, but if that's not an option, can you go to a not very busy car park? That's what I did, it boosted my confidence quite a bit. The more you drive, the better you'll become, and bear in mind it was a 'near' accident, you obviously have good driving skills as you avoided a collision. Well done, keep it up young man!
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direction\naverage speed\nconstant
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I love it when someone asks me this question!  I mean, the fact that I'm just alive today is Miracle Enough for me but I had an experience that I'll never forget and no one can explain.\n\nI was in Lake Tahoe, at the time, driving back to a friend's house after a trip to the hardware store.  It had started to snow pretty heavily, and once I got off the main roads there was patchy ice in-between the drifts that had begun to blow across the road.  In my rear-view mirror, I saw at least 3 cars following behind me, which made me nervous and I thought about slowing to let them pass me but decided against it because I didn't want anyone to think I was stopping in need of help, so I kept driving.  \n\nBasically, I was heading up a good incline (I was in the mountains, understand) and at one point there was a good hair-pin turn where I had to go up on one side and down a steep hill on the other.  There were steep banks on either side of the road in some places and there was only one road to turn-off at at the top of the hill; no other routes to go, except to the right on that road (taking one further up the hill) or the sharp curve to the left (down the other side of the hair-pin).  \n\nAt the bottom of this hill, I glanced in my rear-view mirror and regretted not having the other cars pass me and regretted not putting my truck in 4-wheel drive before leaving the hardware store.  I briefly asked God to just get me home safely and help me to concentrate on driving.  I eased up on the gas at the top of the hill before heading down the other side and immediately, I felt the back end of my truck, continuing to slide in the opposite direction of the turn.  Of course, I tried to correct and that made it worse.  I was sliding back and forth across the road, completely out of control.  \n\nI remember just letting go of the steering wheel, and calling out, "Jesus, help me!"  \n\nThe car continued to spin.  I have no idea how I stayed out of the trees and the steep hills on either side of the road, but suddenly, the car stopped moving and I realized I was at the bottom of the hill, in the opposite lane, facing back in the direction I'd come from.  \n\nI remember wondering when the other cars were going to crash into me and then I realized it was just quiet.  The car had stalled and it was just completely quiet.  The snow was still falling heavily and I looked up the hill I had just come down and saw where my car had dug up the dirt and sprayed it off into the white snow on both sides of the road.  I'd somehow covered pretty much the whole road on my way down.  There were no other cars in sight, from either direction.  \n\nI thought it was a miracle that the cars following me were all heading up the road at the top of the hill instead of down the side I'd gone.  I started up the car and realized that the safest way for me to turn back around would be for me to go back up the hill and turn around where the road was wider for the turn-off.  When I got to the top of the hill, however, and turned onto the road where I was going to turn around, I realized that there were no tire-tracks on the road - fresh or old.  \n\nThe road hadn't been driven on at all, since the snow had started.  I turned around in a driveway and there was still no sign of anyone having been in the area.  And when I got back down to the bottom of the hill I'd nearly gone off, I was making fresh tracks in that snow.  Somehow, God had caused those cars behind me to disappear completely.  \n\nEvery time I tell this story, I know it had to have been a miracle because I'm telling the God's Honest Truth and even I don't believe it.  I often try to figure out how it happened and I just can't explain it.\n\nWhen I got back to his house, my friend told me I looked like I'd seen a ghost.  I said, "No but, apparently, I've been in the presence of an angel," and I told him what happened.  After the snow let up,
1088703
Yeah..but expect ur eyes to water up.. I have done it while driving...and it's hard...but it can be done...
181616
i used to be very calm  but it has gotten worse.  People who turn from the wrong lane, follow to closely and a myriad of other bad driving habits.  I tell my wife all the time "These people got my blood pressure all up I am going to have a stroke from these bad drivers"
37837
Look left then right and finally left.Good Luck
387851
It says: "What on earth are you doing driving????"
652111
In this great game that is called life we love to drive way to fast in our sports car, without a map and never knowing ahead of time where the next hill is or the next bad turn that may send us off a cliff.  My advice, slow down and enjoy the ride.  It is much easier then to navigate and stay on track when those hidden obstacles get in our way