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"It's a good idea to pick your information early", says Tom. "If the amount of bend you can see is decreasing, take speed out; if it's increasing, you can put speed in.
"The reason people don't locate the limit point is because we're not supposed to. Usain Bolt can run 100 metres in 10 seconds and it takes him about 20 metres to stop without pulling a muscle. That's how far ahead most people look because that's what we're designed to do."
Tom also advises to use as much of the road as possible by moving to the middle on a clear left-hand bend, which gives you more time and better visibility.
He continues: "Virtually all your hazards are on the left-hand side of the road. Cyclists, pedestrians, horses, junctions - only oncoming traffic is from the right. So the advice is to pull out into the middle of the road on a left-hand bend, but judge it per bend. As a rule, you see stuff earlier and you create space."
When the driving has finished Tom recaps the course as a whole and leaves me with a few pointers about what I could improve. I have a habit of slowing down through the gears rather than using the brakes, which is fine for economy purposes but it doesn't let the person behind know I'm stopping. It also means I leave my hand on the gear lever for longer than I need to.
They're things I become conscious of on my next journey, but I don't feel as though I've been preached at or dictated to. The course is a series of observations and suggestions more than anything else, which is likely to go down a lot better with business drivers than just picking holes in bad habits.
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