Rules of Defensive Driving
 

Advanced Driving or better known as defensive driving is a more advanced kind of training that motor automobile drivers can take, through and above the mastery of the rules of the road, and the simple mechanics of driving. Its ambition is to decrease the risk of driving by proactively avoiding prejudicial situations, despite dangerous conditions and/or the incorrect actions of others. This might be achieved by ways of adherence to a diversity of general-purpose rules, and the practice of special driving methods.

Here are some those methods, and words about them:

1. Traffic Rules : Respect all the driving rules that your country's legislation has.

2. Pay Attention : A moving automobile develops thousands of foot-pounds of energy. You as a driver have the duty not to use that energy to injure or kill others, or hurt their property.

3. Do Not Trust Anybody : We have met the enemy and he has us. You can never rely on what the other driver will do. Think back to all the mistakes you have generated while driving through the years.

4. Do Not speed : Driving at a higher than reasonable speed elevates your risk in two ways, it cuts your reaction time and results in more "stored" energy that must be dissipating in any collision.

5. Drive Precisely : Sloppy driving breeds mishaps! Most people realizes the fundamentals of the traffic laws, signaling, proper lane position for turns, turning into the proper lanes, complying with traffic signs like "No U-Turns," "No right switch on red," etc.,

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IF you are going to start a discussion about defensive driving......try and at least start it with something that actually is part of defensive driving.....


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Aim high in steering
Get the big picture
Keep you eyes moving
Leave yourself an out
Make sure they see you.




Look beyond the end of your hood........look beyond the next large object, past the middle of that upcoming curve.

See as much as you can see. Traffic on the road ahead. Pedestrians on the shoulders of the road or sidewalks, construction areas to the left and right of the road, construction on the road, unattended vehicles, attended vehicles that have the possibility of turning into your path.

Check road conditions ahead, check your vehicles dashboard instrumentation, check your mirrors. Stay alert, expect trouble ahead, from either side and from behind, watch for signs of engine problems.

Choose the lane of least resistance. If you are going to be making a right hand turn, stay in the right hand lane but be aware of the possibility of vehicles pulling onto the roadway in front of you, car doors opening in front of you, traffic from the side roads cutting you off. If you are going straight through, use a lane that remains open, to allow merging traffic a less restricted path, stay towards center lanes.

Turn on your headlights, night or day. If you approach a pedestrian or a vehicle sitting alongside the roadway, lightly tap your horn. Let them know that you are there and you see them.

Those are the "Rules of Defensive Driving". They are standards that are recognized internationally.

Be courteous in your daily personal habits and in your driving or work habits. Do not allow your guard to drop while working through your daily routine. Do not allow your temper to control your actions.

Courtesy is the "Rule of the Road".

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Somethings a bit strange here...someone comes on the forum to paste something they read somewhere as if we professional drivers on this forum were the ones that do not drive defensively....If you really want to make a difference spread your 'wisdom' at the local schools or go lobby congress for much tighter standards for drivers licences. I know whenever i took the test to get my class c learners permit i studied for 15mins on the way to the dmv...wow
You might be amazed how many people do not know the proper order in wich to proceed at a 4-way stop or a traffic merge.

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