Safe driving saves money, lives, property, and injuries. When you drive safely and defensively, you are greatly reducing the likelihood of causing injury to yourself and others. You can also be rewarded for your skills behind the wheel with...
Category - Defensive Driving
It’s that time of the year again – back to school! All the teenagers are heading back to their regularly scheduled classes (a little reluctantly, probably, for most of them), and that can only mean one thing: we have to share the road...
Every year, thousands of lives are lost on the road nationwide, and every year, road safety becomes more and more important to teach to our children as they start their journey as new drivers. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway...
While not all of us are being raised in a busy city or in an area that typically has heavier traffic flow, at some point in each of our lives we will have to deal with traffic that is comparable to sardines packed in a can. To be sure, it...
Defensive driving is the safest method of driving because it helps you understand how to predict scenarios that could lead to accidents. The following is a list of the most important defensive driving techniques you will learn:
When a person is driving erratically on any sort of road, they’re causing a hazard and putting other drivers at risk, and there are things you can do to help to diffuse the situation. Driving classes can teach you what you should do in these...
Unfortunately, you can only really control yourself and your vehicle while you’re on the road, and aggressive drivers will be there regardless of how safe you are. Luckily, online driving class often does a really great job at teaching you...
One of the most important driving tips I can share with you is to always have an escape route. You should always assume the worst will happen and be prepared for it. Constantly ask yourself questions and make up possible scenarios in your head...
One of the first things I’d teach to my driving students was to look further ahead while driving. I wish more driving schools would focus on this. People don’t mean to, but it’s natural human instinct to look directly at the...
Defensive Driving is defined as “driving to save lives, time, and money, in spite of the conditions around you and the actions of others.” Now, the part of this definition I want to focus on is.. “in spite of the conditions...
One of the first things I noticed as a driving instructor was how people seem to become fixated on things. That’s a driving habit which could become deadly and most people don’t even realize they are doing it! When drivers fixate on...