Additionally, there is one more reason why many clients do not achieve nor strive for my awareness level. It’s because they require something that they do not yet have enough of. And that’s called experience. Experience driving your own car regularly for years is very important to be able to grasp a vast portion of […]
Yes, the goal is to be safe for the rest of your life. A great foundational understanding is to realize that the examiner’s test requirements are keys to your long-term habits of safe driving. Learn here the notes you will find on the examiner’s score sheet. Reverse Safe 360 – Reversing requires an understanding of […]
What do you do when… You Hear A Siren?See a flashing yellow light vehicle?See a blue flashing Lights?See Hazard Lights?See flashing red lights?See a car stopped in an odd location?See a car stopped at an odd location with people standing near? Way ahead on the side of the highway is a truck stopped with flashing […]
Another Bad Year New For Walkers: Deaths Highest In 40 Years U.S. Traffic Deaths Reach 16-Year High 42,915 people died in motor vehicle crashes in 2021 – the most since 2005 and an average of 117 deaths every day. 117 deaths every day Crash deaths rose by 10.5% largest ever annual percentage increase in the […]
What do you do when… You Hear A Siren?See a flashing yellow light vehicle?See a blue flashing Lights?See Hazard Lights?See flashing red lights?See a car stopped in an odd location?See a car stopped at an odd location with people standing near? Flashing Red Light Emergency Vehicle Approaching! What do you do? AUDIBLE FLASHING RED LIGHT […]
“Throwing new drivers into complex situations like highways or intersections with traffic is often a situation that is way beyond their ability, which often causes unneeded stress and anxiety, resulting in many struggling to gain a long term calm and positive approach to driving.” Did this happen to you during your driving lesson or in […]
Many drivers and educators refuse to discuss crash rates, injury or death related to driving. However, I believe an awareness of the fatalities statistics is valuable to help one be aware of higher risk errors or behaviours. The following information comes from a study of 4587 drivers who died in Canada from 2011 to 2015. […]
THE MAXIMUM ALLOWED POSTED SPEED LIMITS UNDER IDEAL CONDITIONS THE FASTEST YOU ARE LEGALLY ALLOWED TO GO 50 km/h All residential areas in British Columbia unless otherwise posted. 80 km/h All non-residential roadways in British Columbia unless otherwise posted. 20 km/h Back alleys, driveways, parking lots, gas stations, and anything that is not the main […]
“I Hate Driving.” “The guy behind me is very angry at us.” “My space awareness is terrible. I can never figure out where the side of our car is.” A very powerful learning tool is capturing word-for-word sentences a client speaks. Write them down. Listen carefully to strong emotional words or phrases that are repeated […]
Parking Brake Bumps PRNDL Restart the Restart the Restart Parking Brake – Driving away with the parking brake on can hurt your car. This is an instant fail on your driving test because you are harming the car. An unsafe car equals an unsafe driver equals failed test. It also demonstrates that you are not […]
Canadian Motor Vehicle Traffic Collision Statistics: 2020 Previous posts have talked about crashes across Canada and referenced specific crash data here in British Columbia. I then presented rough data for China and left you with questions about California. Here I continue with fatalities numbers across the provinces of Canada. Does the risk change significantly when […]
An alternate opinion on the most famous EV in the world.
Failed My Driving Test. What Do These Notes Mean? A few years back, I moved from Ontario to Vancouver. I like to see everything I can find as part of my learning. I asked an instructor’s group to show me past exam score sheets so I could read the comments, errors, and notes as part […]
“Many clients are very concerned with what the driver in the car behind us is thinking. As we move our 2000 kgs forward, the complexity of the roadway becomes irrelevant. The embarrassment of a horn toot, or just the thought, is far more important than a pedestrian or a cyclist!” The marked difference between the […]
Guidance with rental cars to manage a different car. Comfort with their own car, a new car or EV – most often to park in their tight garage location. Highways merging and going fast in heavy traffic to get to calm not nervous. Annual checkup to ensure skills and awareness is improving now declining. Errand […]
