The Defensive Driving Course has been totally updated and now is more comprehensive in the message of 'Defensive Driving'. New videos have been included along with Cd-Rom and DVD presentation formats.
Additionally, new topics have been added to the course to incorporate areas where additional concerns have been raised in the areas of collisions and injuries. These include driving in winter thus a section specifically on winter driving skills has been added under 'Winter Driving', the menace of road rage is covered under 'Aggressive Driving' and the known fact that fuel efficient driver is a safer driver is covered under another new topic on 'Fuel Efiieciency'.
The overall emphasis of the Canada Safety Council's Defensive Driving Course is to help you become a better and safer driver.
Safe driving requires the adoption of an attitude toward operating a motor vehicle safely known as 'defensive driving'. The defensive driver is not timid or overcautious but is determined to take every reasonable precaution to prevent traffic mishaps, over and above what is required by law .
In this course, you will learn what is involved in driving defensively, why and how various types of motor vehicle collisions occur, and what it takes to prevent them. You will be provided with a standard of driving excellence that you can use to evaluate and improve your own driving.
The need for better, safe drivers is acute.
This need is even more dramatic when you consider that 85-90% of traffic collisions are preventable by the driver.
ACCEPTING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY IS THE KEY
Defensive driving represents an approach to the driving task which can lessen your chances of being involved in a motor vehicle collision. The critical factor, which will determine the success of this approach, is your own willingness and readiness at all times to apply the techniques and practices which you will learn on this course.
We encourage you to share what you learn in this course with members of your family, neighbours an co-workers. This will increase the effectiveness of the course in dealing with traffic collision problems everywhere.
Topics covered by the DEFENSIVE DRIVING COURSE include: