OBJECTIVES

1. Assess your driving attitude and behaviour(s)

2. Achieve a degree of self-awareness of the consequences of a
poor driver attitude

3. Promote responsibility for your driving via self-awareness

4. Remove poor driving attitudes

Driver Attitude Course

What kind of a driver are you?

If you ask people to estimate the percentage of "good" drivers on the road they will probably estimate about 25%. However, if you ask those same people what kind of a driver they are, over 90% will classify them selves as a good driver. Obviously it is impossible for both of these statistics to be true, so which one is accurate? Most people have a lot of knowledge about HOW to drive a car. Those same people also know a lot about the laws and the informal courtesies of the road. However, having information and applying it are not necessarily the same thing. Unwillingness to obey the laws and rules of the road reflects ATTITUDE.

The single factor that is the root cause of the massive number of collisions, injuries, and deaths on the roads is ATTITUDE. There are numerous reasons for carnage on the roads: from driving too fast to driving too slow; from cutting people off to drunk driving; from running red lights to hogging the passing lane, but they are all the result of one thing -- driver attitude. Webster's dictionary defines attitude as "a mental position with regard to a fact or state". The driver's "mental position" is the way they view their right to drive and how to drive. The "fact or state" is the Highway Traffic Act (i.e., laws of the road). In-other-words, the driver's attitude is reflected in how they drive and not how they should drive.

We all have an attitude when driving, the question is: what is your attitude? The Driver Attitude Courses (DAC) is designed to address a driver's ATTITUDE.

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