This blog is designed to help you learn more about driving. I'm going tell you things about driving that you may or may not already know. My intent is to convince you that what I am sharing can be valuable if you will apply the information to your daily driving.
This information is for anyone who drives – young, old, new drivers or experienced, mom’s, dad’s, kid’s, everyone. The techniques I will talk about come from years of experience as a professional driver, as well as years of experience BEFORE I was a “professional driver”.
I will explain situations that you may have already experienced. Maybe you were not adequately educated as to how to deal with that particular situation and as a result, you had an accident. Or maybe you made it out of the situation without damage or injury, but your not really sure why or how. In any case, I will explain to you many of the "whys", and do my best to educate you on the "hows", so that should you be faced with another potentially dangerous situation, you will be better prepaired. The truth of the matter is, if you will employ the proactive measures I talk about to your daily driving, you will be less likely to need the “emergency situation” techniques.
As drivers, it’s a safe bet to say that we only utilize a vehicle to about 45 maybe 50 percent of a vehicles capability, and likewise the driver’s. What I want to educate you on is two fold; what can you do to PREVENT yourself from a potential accident or dangerous situation. And secondly, if you find yourself in one of these potentially dangerous situations, what should you, as a driver, do? You see, its one thing to drive a car when it’s well within it’s limits and you are likewise within yours. But, what happens when the car gets pushed to 100% of its ability? What will the car do? At this same time, you as the driver will likely be at your limit of driving skill. How will you behave? What inputs will you give to the car? My goal is that you can learn these answers here, rather than in the moment.
The things I will talk about in this blog are things like, preparing to drive, vehicle dynamics, skid control, braking techniques, accident avoidance and more. I have no intention of trying to teach you how to be a “racecar driver”. However, some of these very same techniques are what make racers fast on the track. Just for the sake of information, I will cover some “performance oriented” driving techniques within the blog.
Now, one thing that I cannot do in a blog is teach you how to drive simply by having you read the material. It just doesn’t work that way. However, as the old adage goes, “knowing is half the battle”. So I am here to equip you with knowledge that will give you a better understanding of how a vehicle works (vehicle dynamics) and things you can do to make yourself a better, safer and more aware driver.
In order to practice some of the driving techniques, you may think you would need your own private track or test facility. Not true. There are plenty of ways and places to experience many of these techniques without having to own your own track. With that said, there are a lot of very good driving school throughout the country that offer excellent training for these very same techniques. I encourage you to look one up and get some time behind the wheel and practice with a trained professional watching you or riding with you. There’s nothing quite like getting that immediate feedback from an instructor who knows what your trying to learn.
I am not sure how long it will take me to write this blog, but I will try to be timely about it. If you find the information useful, please don't hesitate to pass around a link to the blog, especially if you have a teenager who is just starting to drive. Teens are the highest risk drivers for deadly auto accidents. Anything that I can do to help reduce that risk I will. As I said earlier, knowledge is half the battle. So if you know a teen who is driving, please have them follow the blog. I know there will be information in here that can help save their life. And in this case, the knowledge is free. So what have you got to lose other than a little time? I'm sure you've wasted time on lesser things :-)
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