This amazing habit refines attention, accelerates decision-making and can make driving safer on a daily basis, according to a driving school instructor.
Learning to drive impresses at first, and that’s normal. The progression curve is not linear and everyone is advancing at its speed. On Tiktok, Francis, of Driving School TV, states clear landmarks that reassure and reframe expectations. He says he has seen very fast progressions: “The fastest I have ever had, it’s ten two -hour lessons. It goes from ‘I don’t know what a clutch is’ I can drive alone and succeed in my'”. The learning trajectories vary, however, a tip would shine on the exam faster than the others.
On the ground, the pros repeat that the early hours are used as much to tame the machine as to puts automatisms. A typical session starts with a guided tour of the driving position, then we take action on a quiet road, with a setting that secures and corrects the gestures to improve immediately. Francis summarizes it very clearly: “You will review the orders and instruments. The dashboard, the indicators, the direction, the role of the pedals, then the start and the stop, which simply consist in moving forward and stop the car on a very quiet road. Your instructor will watch over safety and guide you at every stage.”
In terms of driving sessions, one hour sessions help out, but two hours in a row often offer more continuity: we get out of the simple “handling”, we chain several maneuvers, we repeat the sequences that wedge, we save consolidation time. This is what the example of the record cited by Francis shows, with ten long lessons which transform a total beginner into a candidate ready for examination. However, one question remains: why do some arrive at the same level in half the hours? The latter would already arrive with a mental card of the vehicle and the road. Although they have never kept a permit in hand, they could interpret dozens of traffic scenes, synchronize their sight and actions, decode trajectories and measure pressure distances.
Indeed, Francis points to a trend he sees coming back: “Normally and honestly, people who succeed as quickly as possible are generally boys because they have played a lot in GTA (Grand Theft Auto) or Gran Turismo.” Behind the anecdote, a very real mechanism: repeated vision-motor training is doping selective attention, accelerates decision-making and installs coordination routines. In this context, driving video games would be an excellent booster in obtaining a driving license.
Note that this hobby does not learn the priorities on the right, the management of the dead angles or the courtesy while driving. The road requires constraints that the screen does not imitate: the grip that changes with the rain, the whims of an engine, the weight of a pedal, the unexpected of a distracted pedestrian or simply the speed limitations. But many teachers now note: the more the student has fueled his brain into dynamic scenes and coordination tasks, the faster the real grip.
