Training of Nervous Drivers In Brampton
Nervous about driving? . . . Let's look at the root causes:
fear of the unknown
For nearly 20 years we have been helping novice drivers to overcome their fear of learning how to drive. You see, it is perfectly normal to feel some anxiety. This is our body’s way to deal with the element of the ‘unknown’. Do you remember your first day on the job? Your new or unfamiliar responsibilities may have been overwhelming at first, until you “learned the ropes,” and your tasks became “just another day in the office”.
Learning how to drive is very similar in nature. Our main goal when teaching nervous drivers, is to eliminate confusion about the driver training process. Our teaching approach is to break down some of the more complex driving concepts into a series of simple tasks. Our experience allows us to introduce every driving exercise in precise sequence, based on every student’s learning ability. We make sure that each step is easy to understand, so even a beginner can learn how to drive effectively.
Our teaching process, (to the right), starts with making you understand a specific driving task. To do this, we combine explanation, and if necessary, demonstration of every basic step. We call this the ‘best training practices’. Once you know the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of any given task, all it takes to improve driving skills is your commitment. It is this commitment, which allows you to engage in the process of repeating and combining every task, until you can independently perform complex driving skills.
Be patient and have a reasonable level of expectation:
As with many other skills, driving a car is very much a physical activity. Consequently, it takes some time for the body – specifically the nervous and muscle systems – to adapt and build the techniques that you need.
Our teaching method is to carefully select a driving technique that is appropriate for your level. We make you REPEAT, REPEAT, REPEAT… a given set of steps until it becomes a routine. And yes, at times it may feel like a labor. As you keep practicing, we measure your progress and give you timely feedback on a newly acquired skill. Once you have mastered a given technique, we revise the expectation level to match your newly find confidence. This is what distinguishes our teaching approach from any other driving school in Brampton.
We firmly believe that staying with our process is the difference between taking a series of makeshift lessons and becoming a confident driver.
Our formula for successful training
setting a clear objective/driving skill
explanation/demonstration
best training practices
simple driving task
commitment/(task repetition)
complex driving skill
confident Driver
fear of Crashing and dying in a collision
When it comes to driving, a mind of a nervous driver is wired to heavily exaggerate the negative consequences, such as dying in a collision. Most people, in fact, tend to fixate or focus on the rare, startling event like a plane or a car crash. In reality, the everyday activities that we face and have become so accustomed to, represent a much greater risk.
Take a look at statistics published by the National Safety Council that compares driving to other selected causes of death:
‘Lifetime odds of death, United States, 2018’
- Heart disease --------------1 in 6
- Cancer ---------------------- 1 in 7
- Respiratory disease ----- 1 in 26
- Opioid overdoses -------- 1 in 98
- Motor-vehicle crash --- 1 in 106*
- Fall ----------------------------1 in 111
* It has been estimated that around 50% occupants that died have not been wearing seat belts.
Now consider that close to 90% of all vehicle collisions are due to a human error (loss of control, distractions, impairments). In fact, majority of crashes are PREVENTABLE.
The above information is:
1. Factual (based on hard data) – it represents the averages and statistics.
2. Not relevant – for students ready to embrace the skills and strategies of Defensive Driving which can make them 10 times better at driving than an average person.
Some people call the above an “accident”. We call it a single vehicle car crash a.k.a PREVENTABLE COLLISION.