Electric Technology Car News: If you only know how to step on the accelerator when overtaking, you are wrong. Only by learning these few skills can you become an experienced driver.

How to overtake correctly with manual transmission

If you are driving a car with a manual transmission, you can switch to manual mode. After downshifting, the vehicle will get more power to complete overtaking. If it is only an AT transmission, you can lightly step on the brakes and wait for the computer to send a command to downshift the transmission, and the power will also be instantly increased.

How to overtake safely on the right

When overtaking, do not look ahead or behind

Many novice drivers only observe the situation of the vehicle in front when overtaking. If they see that the vehicle in front shows no signs of overtaking, they immediately change lanes to overtake without considering the situation of the vehicle behind.

This is very dangerous. It is easy to rear-end the car behind you. When overtaking, the driver should not only confirm that the car ahead can be overtaken, but also confirm whether the car behind is overtaking, turn on the turn signal in advance, and when changing lanes after overtaking, pay attention to keeping a necessary safe distance from the car being overtaken before returning to the driving lane.

How to overtake a large truck

Many novices are a little nervous when facing a huge truck, not knowing whether to overtake it. In fact, everyone stays away from it as much as possible, but everyone is driving on the road and it is inevitable to encounter it. The correct way to overtake a large truck, especially a long truck, is to first drive about 100 meters away from the truck, observe the road conditions ahead, and when the road conditions ahead are good and the sight is good, turn on the overtaking turn signal, honk the horn, flash the lights, observe the direction of the truck, and overtake in a timely and decisive manner. (Remember that it is very dangerous to follow a large truck closely).

When is the best time to overtake?

There is no set routine for this, but one thing is particularly important, which is to merge in advance. As long as you find that the car in front of you is obviously slower than the traffic flow, you should try to merge in advance. When the speed of your lane is already very different from that of the adjacent lane, it will be very difficult for you to overtake. And merging in this case is very dangerous. Regarding this situation, the best way is to merge in advance when you find something wrong before the speed drops to the minimum, which can reduce the risk.

Another thing to note when overtaking is that you must slow down when overtaking a vehicle parked on the side of the road in front of you to prevent the stationary vehicle in front from suddenly opening its door and causing a collision.

At the same time, when going uphill, especially when approaching the top of the slope, it is best not to overtake, because the top of the slope blocks us from seeing whether there are oncoming vehicles, which becomes a visual blind spot and we should not overtake at this time.