That day we had the 5th lesson, on a Saturday. Learnt about intermittent braking and its usefulness, though I did not see the difference with normal braking, as the techniques are very similar. I only felt its advantages when we were out on the roads again in the next few lessons.
Another thing we covered that day, was making sharp turns. I did terribly for that. In order to make a perfect turn, you had to be fast with your steering, but you also had to keep the vehicle moving at a low speed. For the whole lesson, of the 8 turns we made, I managed only 2 perfect turns. The rest were either wide turns or too sharp which caused the car to strike the kerb. The best turn I made that day, the last one in fact, was the turn where I made the car move on its right side. The whole left part of the car, was up on the kerb! We were both in shock, but as soon as I brought the car back down onto the road, he looked at me and started laughing. We changed seats and he showed me how it should have been done, before we were done for the day.
When he meant low speed, it was really low speed. The speed had to be so slow, that the speedometer's needle points at 0 from start to end.
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