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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.

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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.

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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

DURÉE DU COURS EN LIGNE

Environ 60 minutes

Note de passage

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.

CERTIFICAT DE RÉALISATION

Une fois ce cours en ligne terminé avec succès, un certificat d'achèvement sera disponible en téléchargement et pour impression.

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