This advice is effectively more about defensive driving that car control.

However, it is included here because if it is applied during a 'performance' drive it requires a high degree of skill to maintain the cars equilibrium and the safety of all road users.

Many drivers come to grief because they attempt to drive too quickly through bends, corners, and other places where visibility is restricted without proper forward planning, so read this carefully!

The limit point

You can use the 'limit point' to determine your speed on the approach.

The term 'limit point' describes the furthest point that you can see ahead with an unbroken view of the road surface (the limit of your vision).

The photograph below shows the limit point for this left-hand bend in the far distance ... At about the fourth telegraph pole. (The point is circled in yellow).