I have been hanging out lately on some Advanced Driving forums : Pistonheads Advanced Driving forum and ADUK , starting to again take an interest in this having been away from it for over 20 years .
Some of the guys over on the Pistonheads forum have started posting up videos of themselves doing commentary , with in-car video recording now being so readily available , as a good way of getting mutual criticism from each other .
Although I hadn't done much in the way of commentary driving in a good many years , I thought I'd have a go and stuck my digital compact camera to the top of the dash to see how it would work out . The material was shot on my Canon Powershot G11 at 640x480 resolution then compressed from a file size of 3.8 Gb to about 300Mb for the first video and more like 900Mb for the second - both run for a little over 40 minutes .
My first drive on Thursday morning was a bit of a strain finding all the terminology again after so long away , and prioritising the most important things to be talking about when multiple things are going on at once . The second drive on the Friday morning , I felt , went more smoothly as it is all starting to come back .
I thought as well as posting these on the Pistonheads site , I'd also post them here since there have been past discussions on AD and various members have shown interest . Please be aware that I am still quite 'rusty' and that there are a few mistakes of which I am well aware , but it should still give a flavour of what advanced driving is all about for anyone who is interested . Any comment or criticism will be welcomed although , before anyone mentions it , I am still using the 'old' system of car control as that is what I learned 30 years ago . I will at some point try to get some instruction in the 'new' system .
There are IAM and ROSPA groups in most parts of the country if anyone wants to take it further . I can provide links for anyone interested .
Here are the links to the videos
Thursday morning
Commentary drive.m4v - YouTube
Friday morning
Commentary drive - YouTube
Some of the guys over on the Pistonheads forum have started posting up videos of themselves doing commentary , with in-car video recording now being so readily available , as a good way of getting mutual criticism from each other .
Although I hadn't done much in the way of commentary driving in a good many years , I thought I'd have a go and stuck my digital compact camera to the top of the dash to see how it would work out . The material was shot on my Canon Powershot G11 at 640x480 resolution then compressed from a file size of 3.8 Gb to about 300Mb for the first video and more like 900Mb for the second - both run for a little over 40 minutes .
My first drive on Thursday morning was a bit of a strain finding all the terminology again after so long away , and prioritising the most important things to be talking about when multiple things are going on at once . The second drive on the Friday morning , I felt , went more smoothly as it is all starting to come back .
I thought as well as posting these on the Pistonheads site , I'd also post them here since there have been past discussions on AD and various members have shown interest . Please be aware that I am still quite 'rusty' and that there are a few mistakes of which I am well aware , but it should still give a flavour of what advanced driving is all about for anyone who is interested . Any comment or criticism will be welcomed although , before anyone mentions it , I am still using the 'old' system of car control as that is what I learned 30 years ago . I will at some point try to get some instruction in the 'new' system .
There are IAM and ROSPA groups in most parts of the country if anyone wants to take it further . I can provide links for anyone interested .
Here are the links to the videos
Thursday morning
Commentary drive.m4v - YouTube
Friday morning
Commentary drive - YouTube