Loss of peripheral vision
Ageing causes a normal loss of peripheral vision, with the size of our visual field decreasing by approximately one to three degrees per decade of life. By the time you reach your 70s and 80s, you may have a peripheral visual field loss of 20 to 26 degrees. Because the
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Would you have done better?
Click to see video Do you look just down the middle of the street when you’re  driving, or all the way across from the house fronts on the left to the house fronts on the right?
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Parked car doors
This is why you should drive or ride over a door’s width away from parked cars when you can and slow when you can’t: Video One Video Two   When you’re the one opening the car door you may want to consider doing this first: Dutch Reach  
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Reverse parallel and bay parking
Do the methods you’ve been shown previously look a bit like this? (a + (−b) + (−c) 2 = a 2 + (−b) 2  + (−c) 2 + 2a (−b) + 2 (−b) (−c) + 2a (−c) Do you really think that everyone who reverse-parks a car needed a PhD in quantum mechanics to achieve it?  
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If you supervise a learner driver
These are things that may have changed since you learnt to drive: The screenshot is from a recent Vauxhall manual’s handbrake instructions. See what your car manual says. A common problem I find is that parents of learners have been telling them to stop at every give-way line. This causes
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