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Cooper’s training prioritizes mastering the core basics first, which sets a solid foundation for more advanced driving skills. Your method focuses on:

  1. Core Fundamentals: You emphasize building confidence and control in basic car maneuvers like 3-point turns, parallel parking, and reversing. This step helps drivers get comfortable with the car’s controls, including steering, gas, and brakes, to develop a deep understanding of the vehicle’s capabilities and limitations.
  2. Progressing Gradually: Once students feel calm and confident with these basic movements, you move them into more dynamic situations, such as driving in traffic. Here, the focus is on integrating the basics into real-world scenarios, with the key difference being the speed of traffic and navigating around other vehicles while proving they can still focus and perform the basics.
  3. Complex Situations: After mastering basic car control in traffic, you move on to more complex tasks like turning at lights, lane changes, and handling the “chaos” of busy streets. Because learners have already mastered the core basics, these tasks feel easier and more intuitive.
  4. Real-World Experience: Cooper also includes real-world driving conditions—like highways, downtown areas, and speeds above 100 km/h—well before other schools would take students there. This gives them exposure to complex environments where many schools avoid training due to higher risks or fuel costs. Cooper loves the challenge and is very well trained with his Tranport Canada work.

Traditional driving schools tend to stick to familiar test routes and avoid the challenges of urban and highway driving. By prioritizing core skills and then applying them to complex traffic scenarios, our method builds driving confidence and competence faster than more traditional step-by-step approaches. We build adaptable drivers who can handle any driving situation, rather than just memorizing specific maneuvers.

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