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[i]<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px;">Re driving – it’s not the overall speed that’s the problem necessarily, it’s changes of direction or speed. So you need to drive extremely smoothly. Brake very gently, and only ever move the wheel slowly. This takes good anticipation, and it will also limit your overall speed of course on windy roads. I’ve been with people who’ve made me sick not by going fast or even braking hard, just by coming on the brakes too quickly. Often I’d rather you took a bend faster and braked less. But then with me, braking is worse than cornering – with other people it’s the other way round.[/i]</span>
This very much! You won't know you've got a choppy driving style unless someone tells you, especially as you have a nice steering wheel to hold onto and your feet are braced against the pedals 🙂
Imagine your 2yr old is standing in the boot unrestrained (or in my case, towing a couple of horses). If you warn your passengers (or horses) of your next move, they will travel much better. So thats gently coming off the accelerator before applying the brakes, approach bends a little wide and then use the extra width created so you can turn in gradually, and when accelerating, ease off the power so that when you change gear, there is no hesitation in the cars acceleration.
I can tow our trailer at normal car speeds by using this technique, however I have travelled with a couple of other people who will crawl along at 25mph but are overly reliant on the brakes, turn in suddenly and are hesitant, and the horses will stumble about all over the place. Its literally like having a nearly full glass of water on the dash and trying to avoid it slopping over.
Of course it might be nothing to do with your driving, could just be hard sports suspension with dark tinted windows, perhaps it gets a bit stuffy in the back. I've felt car sick once in an overloaded car riding on its bump stops, and once or twice when the driver is particularly jerky and throws you around a bit.