One "skill" that very much needs practice is skid recovery (for those eventual times when the car, no matter how careful you are being, will want to skid). It

One "skill" that very much needs practice is skid recovery (for those eventual times when the car, no matter how careful you are being, will want to skid). It was described in the drivers ed manuals when I got my license, but it is a skill that has to become muscle memory habit (i.e., you don't have time to think "which way do I turn the wheel and how much", you have to "just do"). Without any practice (which was way easier in the 80's with rear wheel drive vehicles) you never got the "touch" down to just turn the wheel the correct direction and amount to recover when the car does start to skid.