Quote:
Originally Posted by Summerwolf
It was a serious question. I'm wondering if there is a correlation of age, location, who taught you etc....
Like say maybe if you're in San Francisco your dad taught you that technique to deal with hills. Something like that.
Where I was taught we don't have a ton of massive hills to deal with so maybe it was never a big enough thing to teach. We have hills and inclines around the town and massive traffic with overpasses obviously, but maybe not to the extent some others would have.
|
My formal driver training was with the military and we were taught never to use the handbrake (if so equipped) to start on a hill. We had to be tested to qualify on each individual vehicle we drove and part of that evaluation was always a hill start. We are talking light weight jeeps to fully loaded heavy trucks here. I never tried it but bet if you used the handbrake then the best you could hope for would be a serious cussing out and the worst case a hard rap on the knuckles.