Block Gear Changing In A Manual Car | Learn to drive: Car Control skills

Block, or selective gear changing is a modern technique that can save time when changing speed in a car with a manual gearbox. In the past, drivers were taught to change down gears sequentially as they slowed their car down - primarily to avoid overheating their brakes. Now that modern cars have much better braking systems we don’t need to do this and can miss out gears at the appropriate time. This gives us more time to concentrate on the road ahead and to keep our hands on the steering wheel for longer. In this video, we will show how to block change gears, and where it can be useful.

Video chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:04 What is block changing
1:44 When is block changing useful?
2:40 Block changing examples
4:55 Block changing smoothly
6:16 Block changing on the driving test
7:05 Block changing when speeding up
8:10 Summary

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EQUIPMENT:
Car: 2015 Kia Rio 3
Camera: DJI Mavic Pro, GoPro Hero 6 & 5
Computer: Apple Mac Mini 4.1
Software: Final Cut Pro X
Music: Good Old Days by Joakim Karud
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