During the season break, we sharing some bonus shorts. This one is from episode 31. How good a driving detective are you? So let's go back to basics here. What do we actually mean? About being a detective when you're driving and we're asking somebody to be a detective. What are we asking them to do? Well, this is where I ask three questions to people, you know, while they're driving? And I try and ask these questions in this order. The first one is what can you see? And I think that's a great question to start with, because one, I now understand where they're looking. And two, it gets people to actually look and we can build on this through their answers and what they're giving me. And then once we built on what they can see might be a junction. Might be parked cars, might be a lorry coming towards them. We can then say what might happen. And again, answers are different? Everyone's different with different situations. So you're going to get different answers. And then once you've decided, what you can see and what might happen. The third and final and probably most important question is, what are you going to do? So we know what's happening and what we can see, how are we going to deal with that situation? Because you've then done the detective work. You've looked for the clues. You've looked for the clues. You've looked for the clues that then might say this might happen. Yeah. Because I've seen the clues. I've seen there's a junction, that's covered by a van parked close to it. So I might not see a car coming out. So what would you do approaching that junction? You'd probably slow down a little bit. Be aware that something might come out. And most of the time, because you're being aware. What's happened is you're now, being prepared for something to happen. And we don't have to do that emergency stop. So you're feeling better. You're feeling more prepared. But then it doesn't just stop You carry this process on, and on, and Yeah. And you mentioned really early on hazard perception, that's all about detective work. Isn't it. It's looking for clues to work out what might happen. When you're practicing hazard perception for your theory. What you're also doing is you're just looking at a screen. So you've taken away the actual driving aspect. So it makes it easier just to concentrate on what might happen. what you can see what might happen. But what you don't have to do on hazard perception is what am I going to do? Yeah, this is where now this comes into your driving. What am I going to do? This might happen. So I need to do this because I don't want this to happen So you're thinking about what do I do want? Yeah. Thinking about it, we do do this all the time as experienced drivers. I, and I often talk about the body language of the car driving in front, now obviously cars don't actually have body language, but there is, you do get a feel for the behavior of a car in front, there's a particular roundabout near us that so many people get wrong, they get the lanes wrong. But you can see it happening because of the signs that the car in front or the car by the side of you is giving off. You sort of know, that's detective work. It is. And then your intuition is kicking in, isn't it? Yeah. You know, and that's again, you know, you're taking it to a different level. Where you're seeing a car. His body language of his car. It's telling you. Do you know what, I don't think he's going to be turning left here. I think he's going to be going straight on You know, there's, there's something about it, but intuition is kicking in and it's not. Do you know what I'm going to hold back. I'm just going to wait for that situation to develop, but you've done no clues. You know, what can you see? I can see this car is telling me something. What might happen? He might carry straight on. So, what am I going to do? I'm just going to hold back. Let the situation develop in front So that I can then deal with it safely. Yeah, I'm feeling a need to talk about my spidey senses tingling. I should have called this something related to Spiderman instead of, instead of. being a Detective. But this is, this is where its all linked in there's lots of overlaps. Yes. We're talking about being a detective and hazard perception. But that we've also started to bring in intuition. Yeah. Which again is, is driving as well. And we do intuition. Every day of our life. Not just in driving Like you just said. So, yeah. Yeah. And I'm thinking again about learners here and thinking about what happens when you're first learning to drive. And there's a thing called cognitive overload, where actually you're trying to learn so many new things, so many new skills. Something like this intuition and spotting, those clues of looking ahead and what, what might happen? That's really difficult when you're first a learner. Because there's so much to take on board. Yeah. And this is where, we, we take step by step. We taken a little step. The first step is getting used to the car. This step of the hazard perception and being a detective. Is it's when we've got the skills of driving. The basic skills of driving we've got. But what we're doing now is we're adding things in, we're looking further outside the car. You're looking at other people we're looking at. Other street furniture. What does that mean? How's it going to affect us? These are the really important skills that you need to lead to that independent driving that we keep talking about. If you want to be able to make your own driving decisions and drive independently, these detective skills are the ones that you're going to need, Exactly that. say someone is struggling with a busy roundabout. It might be that they haven't got the technical knowledge of how to deal with a roundabout. Yeah. It feels that they don't understand where people are going on a roundabout, bring it back. Bringing your skills back so you can start practicing maybe on a quieter roundabout, and then move it forward again, asking yourself the same questions. It just, again, little steps, more practice. Enables you to then to bring those skills further forward into more challenging situations. Yeah and nailing your skills so that then you can look at the wider environment taking all of the information that's available to you. And make your decisions. But I think, we've said about going back, but I think this could also, or is also, should I say, right back to the beginning of how do you feel before you get in a car? Yeah. So you'll. You know, you are being a detective on yourself. And just by asking yourself. How am I feeling?. Might be okay I'm not feeling a hundred percent. So what I'll do is I'll make sure I'm more aware. Make sure I just take my time a little bit, just to get the knowledge right. I know a bit tired. So what I'm going to do is this. And, you know, just being that detective on yourself your own emotions. And emotions play a massive part of driving. And how we can manage our emotions can affect the way we drive. So I think, Being a detective of ourself. In the first instance. Is, a skill that can lead to you being a detective on the road there's two questions there isn't there. This. There's the, how am I feeling followed by how's that going to affect my driving. Yeah, definitely. So there's lots of ways of playing detective.