The world around us has changed! Modern driving entails risks and hazards that pose challenges very different from those faced in the past. Maximizing your safety on the road requires an updated, smarter approach to the driving task!
This is the Mantra Promoted by Defensive Driver Academy! A Method and Pathway to a Better Mental Approach to Driving for the Purpose of Developing Excellent Driving Habits.
Focused and Effective Online Driver Improvement Education Can Teach a Proper Mental Approach to the Driving Task While Aiding in Building Effective Core Habits.
Almost every driver on the roadway firmly believes they drive great and traffic accidents are caused by “The Other Guy”. Whether this be due to age and experience or youthful exuberance the result is the same: a lack of understanding and acceptance that they can get better!
For many years organizations focused on high performance driving and racing have conducted on-track driver training to prepare individuals for driving their cars at the performance limits. The NDSI utilizes some of the same training strategies to aid students in embracing the need for a different approach to the driving task.
While there is no absolute way to make everyone a perfect driver, there is a way to make everyone a significantly better driver: taking an online defensive driver or driver improvement course.
Driving while distracted has grown into one of the leading causes of traffic accidents! Smart phone use, texting, calling, eating, drinking, adjusting vehicle controls… all can kill!
A perfect storm? Perhaps! In what appears to be a classic case of cascading failures, a combination of simultaneous factors are having a massive negative impact on traffic accident rates.