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Defensive Driving Course Proposal

Defensive driving courses teach drivers how to reduce risks on the road by anticipating hazards and making safe decisions based on road conditions. Drivers learn how to overcome negative psychological factors like stress and fatigue that can impact driving. They also learn crucial crash prevention techniques such as scanning the road, maintaining proper following distances, knowing vehicle capabilities, and adjusting speed based on the environment. The goal is to enable drivers to address potential issues in a predictable manner through safe driving strategies that go beyond just following traffic laws.

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Defensive Driving Course Proposal

Defensive driving courses teach drivers how to reduce risks on the road by anticipating hazards and making safe decisions based on road conditions. Drivers learn how to overcome negative psychological factors like stress and fatigue that can impact driving. They also learn crucial crash prevention techniques such as scanning the road, maintaining proper following distances, knowing vehicle capabilities, and adjusting speed based on the environment. The goal is to enable drivers to address potential issues in a predictable manner through safe driving strategies that go beyond just following traffic laws.

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Defensive driving course

Defensive Driving is essentially driving in a manner that utilizes safe driving strategies to
enables motorists to address identified hazards in a predictable manner. These strategies go well
beyond instruction on basic traffic laws and procedures. With defensive driving classes, students
learn to improve their driving skills by reducing their driving risks by anticipating situations and
making safe well-informed decisions. Such decisions are implement based on road and
environmental conditions present when completing a safe driving maneuver.
On the roadways, drivers have to deal with several factors that can affect their driving.
Though some of them are beyond the control of the driver, psychological factors can be control
by the driver if he knows what to look for and how to handle it. Defensive driving courses tend
to focus on how drivers can overcome negative psychological factors such as unneeded stress,
fatigue, emotional distress and road rage. They also offer instructions for developing a positive
attitude behind the wheel and increasing your focus on the driving task.
In a typical defensive driving course, students learn crucial crash prevention techniques that
include:
Scanning the roadway and adapting to surroundings
Employing the two-second rule for following distances
Knowing your vehicles stopping distance
Being aware of reaction distance
Environment hazards
Vehicle emergencies
Sharing the road
Passing and necessary clear distance
Right of way
Speed adjustments and railroad crossings

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