> > Why? If I aim at the center of the road
> > five car lengths ahead, *I*, in the driver's
> > seat, will be in the center of the road,
> > surely enough...
>
> Don't aim at the center of the road. Aim at
> the center of your lane. Try thinking of your
> lane as the only road out there. In the
> driver's seat, you need to be over the track
> where the left wheels roll. You can see the
> track on most roads. Or keep yourself just to
> the left of the oil streak down the middle of
> your lane.

I just realized that I wrote "center of the road" when I meant "center of the lane". Oops.

Nonetheless, what I said still applies: when I try to stare ahead at the center of the *lane*, that makes it so that the driver's seat is perfectly centered--but the rest of the car is off to the right-hand side.

-- codeman"yes, I get words mixed up sometimes; it's really a problem with 'left' and 'right' {g}"38