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RLENT
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It absolutely does - it's from the Smith System - in fact it's the core principles it's built around.
The wife and I got several days of Smith System training when we went thru our training for Fedex Home Delivery. The data and the principals actually blew me away - I was so impressed and pumped after going thru it that I wanted to buy the course materials (tapes/DVD's) myself just so I could have them to refer to and refresh from in the future.
I felt like I had actually acquired some serious tools that would allow me to becoming a really great defensive driver.
On this past March 5th I was involved in an accident while driving privately, off the job. Thankfully no one was hurt - that was largely a result of the fact that I was using several of the Smith System principals at the time. Had I not been it could have been alot uglier - and I actually came within one foot of preventing the accident altogether and avoiding the other vehicle ....... which had been driving across the double-yellow lines, left of center, on a two lane road and attempted to execute a right turn directly in front of in me, across my open lane, wiith no signal whatsoever, into a driveway that joined the road at greater than a 120 degree angle back away from the direction of travel.
http://smith-system.com/
The wife and I got several days of Smith System training when we went thru our training for Fedex Home Delivery. The data and the principals actually blew me away - I was so impressed and pumped after going thru it that I wanted to buy the course materials (tapes/DVD's) myself just so I could have them to refer to and refresh from in the future.
I felt like I had actually acquired some serious tools that would allow me to becoming a really great defensive driver.
On this past March 5th I was involved in an accident while driving privately, off the job. Thankfully no one was hurt - that was largely a result of the fact that I was using several of the Smith System principals at the time. Had I not been it could have been alot uglier - and I actually came within one foot of preventing the accident altogether and avoiding the other vehicle ....... which had been driving across the double-yellow lines, left of center, on a two lane road and attempted to execute a right turn directly in front of in me, across my open lane, wiith no signal whatsoever, into a driveway that joined the road at greater than a 120 degree angle back away from the direction of travel.
http://smith-system.com/
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RLENT
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Cheri,
It's interesting that you mention that. In the accident I referenced previously the 17 year-old that was driving the other vehicle had a cellphone in her hand when I walked up to her vehicle to check on her condition. I don't know if she was talking on it while driving or not but from appearances she seemed to be totally oblivious to the fact that I was following behind her.
It's interesting that you mention that. In the accident I referenced previously the 17 year-old that was driving the other vehicle had a cellphone in her hand when I walked up to her vehicle to check on her condition. I don't know if she was talking on it while driving or not but from appearances she seemed to be totally oblivious to the fact that I was following behind her.
There might be some drivers reading this, thinking "What a hypocrite! I know she talks on the phone while driving, because she talks to me!" And I do - when I'm on cruise control, on the highway, at night, and I use the Bluetooth. I don't talk while in city traffic, daytime traffic, in iffy weather, or anytime I need to be on high alert.
Teenagers & cellphones are as dangerous as drunk drivers, IMO, and if I could find a cellphone that doesn't work in a moving vehicle, that's the phone my daughter would have...
Teenagers & cellphones are as dangerous as drunk drivers, IMO, and if I could find a cellphone that doesn't work in a moving vehicle, that's the phone my daughter would have...
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