Course Overview
This award winning internationally recognized comprehensive blended Defensive Driving and Driver Attitude program focuses on Driver Attitude and Defensive Driving skills. This all in one course includes all the Thinking Driver material that has won national awards. Driving attitudes directly affect risk tolerance in corporate and other drivers. Stress, personal factors and issues and other driver actions all play a role. This course teaches drivers to understand and self-manage these forces to maintain clear and objective decision-making skills while driving and avoid impulsive, disrespectful, retaliatory or other actions that increase driving risk or attract complaints. The probability of incident or accident is significantly reduced when drivers reduce speed, observe highway laws and rules and demonstrate courtesy to other road users as a result of this training.
This Course focuses on Driver Attitude by educating employees on the personal factors that influence risk tolerance. As drivers understand their own psychology and "hot buttons" then learn how to self-manage emotion, they are able reduce risk tolerance even in stressful driving situations or when provoked by other drivers. This results in reduced incident rates (up to 90% reduction) as proven by many Thinking Driver course users*.
The course also features an in-depth module on Thinking Driver's proprietary 5 Fundamentals of Defensive Driving: Think and Look Ahead, Anticipate Hazards, Keep Your Options Open, Manage the Risk and Control With Finesse.
These core defensive driving concepts developed and fine tuned to a clear focused driver safety system by Thinking Driver founder and internationally recognized driver training expert Spencer McDonald form the foundation skill sets required to drive incident free for a lifetime.
This is Thinking Driver's flagship Driver Course and results in reduced incident rates as proven by many Thinking Driver course users. The media rich course engages learners through a variety of interactive on-screen activities including quizzes, click to discover facts, video, audio commentary and much more. The user interface is intuitive and easy to use. Employees love this course because unlike so many others, it's interesting, entertaining and informative while holding their attention.
This course was developed by internationally recognized road safety, driver psychology and training expert, Thinking Driver Founder, Spencer McDonald.
If you have been considering either Defensive driving Fundamentals or Defensive driving attitudes as individual courses, this all in one course include all content from both standalone courses.
*Source: Technical Safety BC (90% reduction in at-fault accidents between 2011 and 2015 using Thinking Driver training courses)