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Defensive Driving: Extreme Winter Driving with Skid Control/Recovery
Our state-of-the-art Thinking Driver Winter Driving course, acclaimed as one of the best, comprehensively covers all the necessities your employees require to navigate safely and avoid accidents during winter. The course also emphasizes advanced skid control and recovery techniques for oversteer, understeer, and straight-line skids. Furthermore, it elaborates on the right steering, acceleration, and braking methods to maximise traction. This multimedia-rich course features live demonstrations. Brought to you by Thinking Driver, North America's top-ranked provider of corporate driver training.
Winter driving poses a significant challenge even to the most seasoned drivers. Our top-tier, award-winning Thinking Driver Winter Driving course, updated for 2020, imparts all the knowledge your employees, whether new or experienced, need to drive safely and avoid accidents during winter.
Our extensive course not only covers the basics of winter driving like other courses but also delves into advanced skid control and recovery techniques for oversteer, understeer, and straight-line skids. This critical knowledge is essential for employees who operate your vehicles in winter!
Our Defensive Driving: Extreme Winter Driving with Skid Control/Recovery course thoroughly explains the right steering, acceleration, and braking methods to maximise traction. The course, brimming with multimedia content, showcases live demonstrations of general driving and skid recovery techniques along with interactive learning activities. Brought to you by Thinking Driver, the leading provider of corporate driver training in North America.
The 6 Conditions of Winter Driving
There are six primary driving conditions that impact driving during winter months. Being mentally prepared for these conditions and developing the necessary habits and skills to safely handle them will significantly reduce the risk and the likelihood of an accident or crash during periods of extreme driving conditions.
- Weather Conditions
- The most challenging and unpredictable element
- Vehicle Condition
- Vehicle preparation and winter safety
- Vehicle winter emergency kits
- Road Conditions
- Bare roads
- Snow covered roads
- Ice covered roads
- Traffic Conditions
- Dealing with other drivers under winter conditions
- Lighting Conditions
- Glare reflection from snow
- Blowing snow and impaired vision
- Reduced daylight hours and the necessity to drive during darkness more often
- Driver Condition
- Mental state and preparedness
- Impairment
- Fatigue
Distracted Driving and Winter Conditions
- Steps to avoid distracted driving in winter conditions
Traction & Control
Staying in control of a vehicle necessitates traction with the road surface. The primary challenge in winter is to find and maintain this vital element. In this module, employees will discover that it is possible to find and maintain traction by expertly controlling the vehicle. The course presents video demonstrations explaining advanced control techniques for acceleration, braking, and steering.
- Vehicle balance and traction
- Tire types and their uses; the significance of winter tires and their functionality
- Full control steering technique expounded and demonstrated in detail
- Why full control steering outperforms other methods, especially in winter
- Squeeze/ease acceleration and braking technique thoroughly explained and demonstrated
- The correlation between speed, traction, and control
- All-wheel drive, four-wheel drive vehicles
- Traction control
- Electronic vehicle stability control
Skid Recovery
Most winter mishaps and crashes either start with or involve a skid. Understanding why vehicles skid, and how to both avoid skids initially and recover or “drive out” of one, is a fundamental skill for safe winter driving. However, this skill is rarely taught to new drivers!
- What is a Skid?
- Types of skids
- Understeer
- Oversteer
- Straight line lockup under braking
- Skid Recovery
- Antilock brakes
- How antilock brakes function
- How to navigate out of problems using antilock brakes
- Potential risks associated with antilock brakes
Approximately 60 minutes
The Defensive Driving: Extreme Winter Driving with Skid Control/Recovery course includes tests throughout to reinforce the information presented. Participants must achieve a score of 90% to receive a certificate of completion. Three attempts at the exam are allowed, and participants can retake the course twice if they do not achieve the passing score in these 3 attempts.
Upon successful completion of this online course, a certificate of completion will be available for download and printing.
Course Details
Course Length
This course will take roughly 60 minutes
Passing Mark
To pass this training course, you need to score 90% or higher on the quiz
Certificate
Upon the successful completion of this course a certificate with your name will be stored on your profile and available to print
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