For a Smooth ride!
A chauffeur has to be capable of driving in a manner that will allow all the passengers to have a relaxed smooth drive.
The passengers may be professionals attending an important meeting, and may be drinking and wouldn't want drink spilt over their expensive suits or paperwork strewn all over the back seat of the car. They want to arrive at their journey feeling calm and composed.
We've all been sat in a car and know the effects on our body from the driver either accelerating, cornering or braking heavily.
We get thrown back in our seat on heavy acceleration, push forward on heavy braking, and thrown from side to side on heavy cornering.
Constant motions like these can easily lead to travel sickness, especially for younger children.
When a learner starts their journey to become a full licence holder, the vast majority of them take a bit of time just to work out how much brake to use to bring the car to a stop. When they think they have mastered it, there will still usually be that little jolt in the car as their foot remains on the brake pedal right up to the point that the car fully stops.
A driver doesn't necessarily feel that jolt as much because they subconsciously add a little arm pressure to the steering wheel which keeps them in place. But the passengers ALL feel the jolt as their body weight is transferred forwards.
To alleviate this the driver needs to adapt their braking method just slightly.
In most learners to start with, drivers use 2 stages to braking.
Stage 1. remove foot from brake pedal and introduce it the the foot brake causing the brake lights to illuminate.
Stage 2. add pressure to the brake pedal until the car comes to a complete stop.
To create a smoother type of braking, drivers need to add one additional stage to the first two stages.
And that is simply by removing their foot from the foot brake so that the very last stages of the car stopping are carried out by a roll to a stop.
The skill of doing this is working out when to remove their foot from the brake.
Things such as the speed of the car and the gradient of the road will all be factors that the driver needs to take into account when building this skill.
