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So, how should you hold your hands on the steering wheel? This is the question that a lot of beginner
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drivers ask, and the answer is not so clear. First of all, in driving schools, they say you
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should keep your hands in the position 9 - 3. So if you imagine the clock here, this is the 9:00,
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this is 3:00, and you hold your hands like this. Also, some driving instructors will tell you
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that you should hold your hands like this. This position is called 10 - 2 because 10:00, 2:00,
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yeah? And you can find some internet experts, they will say 8 - 5 is a great position. First of all,
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8 - 5 is the worst position you can use. In this position, your hands and arms will always be in
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tension, and you will have to use a lot of power to control your vehicle. So the best position in
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modern vehicles is 9 - 3, but I will explain to you later what you need to do in order to make
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this position really convenient for you. The 10 - 2 position is also okay, but, in modern cars,
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it's not necessary to raise your hands, raise your arms and hands, so high. In older vehicles,
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we didn't have power steering. It made steering really hard, difficult, so you had to use both
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your hands to turn the steering wheel, especially when your car was stationary. Now, all vehicles
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have electric power steering, and you don't need to hold your hands here because if you do this,
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your hands, your arms will feel a lot of tension. So for driving your car safely,
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the 9 - 3 position is the best. But one thing you should know is that when you're holding your
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hands in the 9 - 3 position, your hands and arms should be relaxed, your elbows should be down.
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You shouldn't hold your steering wheel like it's going to disappear somewhere if you
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don't hold it. You should just put your hands and use your thumbs to hold the steering wheel
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and relax. Relax your hands. This way, you will feel the direction where the car goes. This way,
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you will be ready to react on anything that's happening on the road. And there is another tip:
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you should set your steering wheel so that the 9 - 3 position is really convenient for you. So change
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the height of your steering wheel and use it so that your hands are not raised really high and are
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not really low. Originally, when people teach you how to drive, they say "hold your steering wheel
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at all times". So you should hold it at all times, whatever you do. You shouldn't let it run through
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your hands. And actually, when you are passing your driving test, this is very important because
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sometimes when you let the steering wheel run through your hands, you may fail this test. You
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may fail the driving test. Sometimes, people don't pay attention to it, but really, in some cases,
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this may be the reason why you don't get your driving license. Also, a lot of people ask if
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they can use one hand and one arm to control their cars, and the answer is yes, you can. But on the
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highways.On the highways, you will sit comfortably and maybe your one hand will rest somewhere here,
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and one hand will be used in different positions to control the steering. But there is one big
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thing to remember. If you drive like this, if your hand is located between you and the airbag, this
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is not a very good idea. Because if you get into the accident or something happens with the safety
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system of your car and the airbag deploys what you will do, you will kick yourself, and there
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is a high chance that you will get some injury. At least your arm will not like this idea. So, make
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sure that you don't drive like this, like this. Make sure that there is nothing between the airbag
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and your face. And also check if you can react. So a lot of people will drive barely holding the
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steering wheel, carelessly steering their cars. This is not the best idea because you may easily
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hit some pedestrian who decides to cross the road in the wrong place, or you may just not
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react when you need to turn, and this will lead to a huge problem, to accidents, to some trouble
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that you may avoid if you just use both your hands for steering your car. But if you're steering with
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only one hand, please don't use this technique, when you're putting your hand like this. It's
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really hard for you to control the direction of your car. You will not feel this direction,
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and unless you have really a lot of experience in driving, you will probably fail to catch the
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direction correctly all the time. And that is one thing I will show you that people in sport use,
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people in racing sport use. So they use this 9 - 3 position most of the time, and when they turn,
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their other hand will also catch the wheel in the 9 - 3 position. So whenever they turn, they
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will do like that. Why? Because in this way, they can easily turn it back to zero. When you turn it
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back to zero, you don't need to catch this zero position all the time. You save your time, but
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you will not need it in normal city driving. So you may catch it somewhere this, somewhere here,
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or somewhere here. Now, just the wrong thing to do is to turn your steering wheel like that. This is
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the number one problem of starting drivers because I'm doing it for 20 seconds, and I'm already
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exhausted, and this is not really effective, so don't do this. And the other thing that I
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see people doing is try to turn the steering wheel with only one hand, just like this. Well,
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this is very dangerous. If you do this, there is a high chance that you will lose the steering wheel,
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and your car will go in some unknown direction. So you will need to catch the steering wheel,
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and this can lead to some accidents and some really bad situations. So don't do this,
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please. Although the position 9 - 3 is the best, one of the mistakes that people are doing is
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holding their hands on the steering wheel at all times when they're sitting in the car. What you
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need to do is once you stop, once you don't move, you stop at a traffic light, or you're sitting and
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waiting for someone to get into your car you may just let off the steering wheel. You may put your
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hands here, use your armrest for your arm and give your hands some time to improve the blood flow.
