Hello everyone, I'm Xiao Li. It is relatively common for novice drivers to have car accidents, but they are generally some minor scraping accidents, which are not big problems and vehicle maintenance is relatively easy. Recently, a novice female driver around me said that since she bought a car, there have been 3 accidents in a row within a month, and she understands the following 3 truths.
First, when waiting for a red light for a long time, don't hang D gear. For automatic transmission cars, it is common to hang red lights such as D gear, in addition to holding the speed and high fuel consumption, waiting for traffic lights for a short time will basically not have any impact on the vehicle. However, novices are not skilled in driving, and many novices are nervous, and there will be 2 problems when hanging the traffic lights such as D gear. Some people are nervous and will press the brakes tightly, afraid of releasing the brakes and causing traffic accidents, but doing so will make our novice friends feel very tired when driving, and some people even pinch the steering wheel and are full of sweat.
Although some novices are not nervous, due to insufficient driving experience, when hanging the traffic lights such as D gear, the feet are not familiar, and it is easy to play with the mobile phone in the process of waiting to find something, so they unconsciously release the brakes, causing traffic accidents. Although hanging in P gear will be more afraid of encountering a rear-end collision, it is also much safer to hang in P gear than hanging in D gear. Experienced drivers will generally pull up the handbrake in N gear, so as to avoid problems caused by distraction.
Second, don't get entangled in scratching, don't touch up the paint for small scratches. This is a loss in exchange for experience, novice driving scratches is normal, many people in the novice period, basically the front and rear bumpers have to be scratched many times to practice the car feeling. When I was a novice, I scratched the front fender on the first night I drove home, repaired it as soon as I could, and scratched it a second time in the same place a week later. At that time, I had to touch up the paint again, but I felt that it was a waste of money to repair it after scraping it like this. It costs two or three hundred to repair once, and it may soon scrape the same place, especially in the "hardest hit area" like the front and rear bumpers, and it is a waste of money to repair the paint. It's better to scrape it, and wait for a year to be skilled enough to do the whole car painting at one time, which can not only save money, but also reduce the color difference caused by the painting, killing two birds with one stone.
Third, don't just care about the road conditions in front of the front of the car, and pay attention to prevent being rear-ended. This is the biggest realization after being inexplicably rear-ended, and it can be regarded as a summary of experience. When a novice drives, he rarely notices the situation of the rear car, he is in this state at the beginning, although he will occasionally look at the rearview mirror during the process of driving, but basically just casually see if there is a car, when he encounters the need for sudden braking, he will follow the rhythm of the car in front of him and step on the brakes. But who knows that you saved the front of the car, but the rear car didn't brake and slammed you up.
Therefore, when we are driving, in addition to preventing ourselves from rear-ending others, we must always pay attention to avoid being rear-ended by the rear car. The practice of old drivers is to pay attention to the rearview mirror when braking suddenly, when you see the rear car in the rearview mirror constantly approaching you quickly, consider the distance between yourself and the car in front, try to release the brake to let the car approach the front car, and leave enough braking distance for the rear car. Even if the rear car really can't brake, it can slow down the rear-end collision to the greatest extent and make the car less injured. Although the car can be repaired if it is damaged, the more serious the crash, the more difficult it is to restore the original state.
The above are the 3 truths that my friend only understood after encountering 3 car accidents during driving, all of them are sincere, I hope it will help you use the car.