I am with a new driver trainer and he is calling low gear 1 (18 speed), 1st gear in the top of the "H" 2, 3rd gear 4, 5th gear 6th, 7th gear 8th, and 8th gear 9th. He refers to the gears as "5 on the bottom and 4 on the top..." This is completely different then what is literally posted on the knob of the gear shifter.
Every driver teacher I have been with refers to the gears the same as printed on the gear shift where 1st is the top of the H, 2nd the bottom of the H, 3rd the top right of the H, and 4th the bottom right of the H, just like it is printed on the gear shift diagram.
He calls "low" gear 1 and works his way up from there. He insists on calling it this, and now when I am driving, he mentions a gear different from the diagram and how I learned it, and he said this is pretty common in the industry. When I am asking a specific question about a gear or what gear to be in, I have to switch my thinking to match his to have a conversation.
It's driving me nuts since I have never heard of this, and spent two weeks in school learning gears being called out just like they are referred to on the diagram, and quite honestly, it's pissing me off and making it difficult to communicate.
Is this pretty common in the industry when someone is referring to the low gear they really mean they are speaking about gear 1, and so forth??
Seems like every single person I get behind the wheel with as an instructor of some type, has a completely different way of doing things and tells you to ignore everything else you have learned. I am already getting tired of having to relearn or retrain my mind to do something different every time I get a different person teaching me how to drive.
I don't want to learn the gears like he is saying and call them for what they are in the diagram.
When I asked him if I spoke technical to other folks in the industry, are they going to support what he says on the gear numbers and know what the hell I am talking about? He didn't answer me in a confident way.
I was also taught NEVER change gears while in the middle of a turn. NEVER coast to a red light, stop sigh, etc... in neutral, but they are telling me to forget all that and teaching me to do it differently.
Thoughts?
Trainer says don't pay attention to 18 speed shift pattern #'s
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Michael-CO, Aug 1, 2022.
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