6. Defensive Driving
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Sounds really dull doesn’t it? I can hear you now “Defensive driving - bet that means driving really slowly and ultra carefully”. Well, we should always drive carefully, but it doesn’t necessarily mean driving slowly - sometimes quite the opposite.
Defensive driving means driving in such a way as to avoid having an accident. Sounds pretty obvious, I know, that we don’t want to have an accident but, when you think that almost all road accidents (and there are one hell of a lot of them) involve driver error, you begin to realise that lots of people are not very good on the road.
It’s also very important to remember that even if an accident isn’t your fault, you may have been able to avoid it if you had read the situation well enough. And that’s what defensive driving is all about, understanding and appreciating how situations can develop into potentially dangerous ones and dealing with them in good time. So you don’t necessarily need to be driving slowly to be driving defensively, you just need to realise that the faster you are driving, the further ahead you need to be looking to have time to react to given situations.
In this lesson you will learn about:
- What is defensive driving
- Planning and anticipation
- Hazard perception
