| What you need to know about defensive driving. | | | | type theatrics, and moreover, this is what defensive |
| Statistically, almost every automobile collision could | | | | driving is all about. Unfortunately, many experienced |
| have been prevented if there had been just one more | | | | drivers will tell you that defensive driving is more like an |
| second of time before the impact occurred. Spatially, | | | | elegant dance than doing the mambo. For a brief look |
| that amounts to just a few feet. While many people | | | | at what defensive driving is all about, you may want to |
| cringe at the rates of automotive fatalities, few take | | | | look at the tips offered by |
| the time to complete defensive driving courses. In | | | | Chances are, if you drive a car, you think that you are |
| addition, not every drunk, shoddy, cell phone using, or | | | | good enough to not need defensive driving classes. In |
| otherwise incompetent driver gets enough tickets to | | | | fact, you may even smugly believe that you are in |
| force them into taking these classes before they maim | | | | control of your car at all times. That said, the cd player |
| themselves, or someone else for life. And, just as | | | | or radio is still on, the Dunkin' Donuts coffee tastes |
| unfortunately, there are millions of people who have | | | | great, and you just can't stand to miss your friend's |
| been robbed of their lives by the senselessness of | | | | phone call, or another cigarette. Each and every prop |
| negligent drivers. | | | | lulls you into a false sense of safety, and drives you to |
| Taking a defensive driving course does not | | | | forget the laws of physics and bodies in motion. The |
| automatically exempt you from having a collision. That | | | | result of that outlook is over 22 million people are |
| said, it can help you prevent quite a few of them, or | | | | maimed for life each year, and over 50,000 die in |
| even turn what would have been a fatality into nothing | | | | automobile collisions. More than likely, every driver in |
| more than a minor scrape. You will learn about how to | | | | those cars had the exact same optimistic opinion of |
| spot developing situations in the traffic around you, and | | | | their driving skills and attention span. |
| how to make sure you don't create, or get involved in | | | | Every day people die or become maimed for life in |
| them. | | | | automobile collisions. While many grieve, few people |
| Typically, defensive driving classes last one day. Not | | | | realize that a fraction of a single second could have |
| so long ago, these courses were only offered in local | | | | entirely prevented the collision from happening. |
| community colleges, or other meeting places. Today, | | | | Defensive driving courses can teach you to have the |
| you can take defensive driving classes right online. As | | | | patience and moral character necessary to buy that |
| an example, offers defensive driving classes that you | | | | one single second for yourself and everyone around |
| can take at any time of the day. If you are interested | | | | you. Along with teaching you how to eliminate |
| in an online course, however, you will need to make | | | | distractions, defensive driving courses will also teach |
| sure that it is available in your state. | | | | you some basic road etiquette, as well as how to spot, |
| Sometimes, people think that they will learn Houdini | | | | and stay away from dangerous situations. |