arabianights
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- 1 Jun 2011
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Since I have been playing train simulators as a hobby, my car driving has been affected in that I am much more likely in certain situations to coast, but more importantly, plan to use gravity (in both ways).
I would have thought for someone actually doing driving trains in real life and presumably getting a feel that one doesn't get in a simulator for the effects of gravity on speed that there was a likelihood of car driving being affected even more than mine, but I would be interested to hear whether this is actually the case or not.
Following other trains on yellows has also affected my driving in that I tend to try to drive motorway traffic jams at a constant speed; I have always done this, but I think (although have no way of being sure) that I have got better at getting this speed right from the discipline that timing double yellow/single yellow signal transitioning in a simulator (and thus again, presumably also in real life although I appreciate defensive driving rules may preclude this) gives you.
Would also be very interested if there are other road driving techniques you have picked up from train driving. For personal reasons I will never be able to be a train driver (if this were not the case then frankly I would be one) but I do wish that I had a two tone horn on my car.
I would have thought for someone actually doing driving trains in real life and presumably getting a feel that one doesn't get in a simulator for the effects of gravity on speed that there was a likelihood of car driving being affected even more than mine, but I would be interested to hear whether this is actually the case or not.
Following other trains on yellows has also affected my driving in that I tend to try to drive motorway traffic jams at a constant speed; I have always done this, but I think (although have no way of being sure) that I have got better at getting this speed right from the discipline that timing double yellow/single yellow signal transitioning in a simulator (and thus again, presumably also in real life although I appreciate defensive driving rules may preclude this) gives you.
Would also be very interested if there are other road driving techniques you have picked up from train driving. For personal reasons I will never be able to be a train driver (if this were not the case then frankly I would be one) but I do wish that I had a two tone horn on my car.