Driving Perfection: Mastering Safe and Courteous Driving

Driving Perfection promotes safe and courteous driving as a skill that can dramatically reduce accidents and keep people safe. It advocates that by becoming safer and more courteous drivers can enhance their quality of life and even refine a few of their character traits. The book is not a compendium of information that you can obtain from your state's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) or Motor Vehicles Administration (MVA). It starts where drivers? manuals leave off. It sensitizes you to critical safety issues of which you may be only superficially aware. It explains how being considerate is an essential safety measure. It offers numerous techniques and examples that you can use to become a safer and more considerate driver. DRIVING PERFECTION offers guidance to all drivers from the prospective (taking driving lessons) and novice to the experienced and professional.Each chapter begins with quotes mostly from sports coaches and players. We can learn much from their hard-earned lessons and wisdom accumulated from years of wins and losses. Their quotes are inspirational and instructional.Driving Perfection has seven sections. Section I ? Safety in a Nutshell - discusses why accidents happen and what it means to be a safe driver. It explains the connection between driving 'style' character and quality of life. It emphasizes the attitude needed to improve and the value of refining or updating your driving skills with a professional instructor even (long) after you obtain your license.Section II ? Vices and Virtues - describes good and poor manners on the road. It discusses how courtesy and etiquette are essential safety measures. It offers examples of thoughtless and rude behaviors.Section III ? Skill Building - aims to develop good driving skills such as situational awareness alerting yourself to potential risks employing safety margins and driving defensively. It briefly discusses the role of current and emerging safety technologies. Section IV ? Accident Prone - describes circumstances that make the driver prone to accidents. It addresses the importance yet difficulty of gauging and communicating intentions both yours and those of other drivers. It describes distractions and situations where distractions are common. It details dangerous behaviors and their good counterparts. Section V ? Keeping Others Safe - discusses how to keep pedestrians cyclists highway workers and security and emergency personnel safe. It presents many examples of common driver behaviors that jeopardize their safety.Section VI ? Driving Improvement Planning - provides practical advice on how to improve your driving. It includes recognizing that when you drive you are role modeling behavior whether you intend to or not. It describes how to put together an improvement plan and chart your progress. It gives guidance on how to overcome obstacles to improving.Section VII ? Epilogue ? provides parting guidance and perspective.DISCLAIMER AND CAVEAT: This book is intended for education purposes and as a reference volume for those wishing to know more about safe and considerate driving. In no way is this book intended to constitute replace substitute countermand or conflict with driving laws and rules found in state motor vehicle administration (e.g. DMV MVA) manuals or any other entity that promulgates legal driving requirements. If you have any question about driving laws rules or recommended practices consult with your local driving school and/or state motor vehicles administration (DMV/MVA).

Paperback: 162 pages

Publisher: Independently published (August 26 2019)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1688270655

ISBN-13: 978-1688270657

Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 10.7 ounces