Got Kids About to Drive?

chill · #1 (**permalink**) 12-11-2002, 05:26 PM

If you have kids who are new or near future drivers, look into one of the teen driving schools. Audit has one at Road Atlanta and I teach (volunteer) for a school that is taught at Atlanta Motor Speedway. www.extrememeasures.org

After riding with the kids the first day and seeing the improvement in confidence and accident avoidance by the end of the second day, its worth the time. I am not familiar with the Audi one, but either of them are a good investment of time.

The Xtrememeasures class is taught by A-run group and Instructor level club school grads and racers and is probably as much fun for us to teach as it is informative for the kids.

My hope is that the accident that does not occur because of better learned reflexes saves a kid, a parent's car, and/or a Cobra that happened to be in the intersection or on that twisty road...

Alex Donghi · #2 (**permalink**) 12-12-2002, 06:58 AM

I heard Neal Boortz talking about this just this morning. He talked about the Audi school. Good Idea. Another one is a little devise that you can put on a car and track it with your home computor. It gives you roads traveled speed etc. A real BIG brother watching. It would be a great way to keep little Johnnie from screwing around. (like I did

) "i'm only driving to school"...RIGHT!!! Get under the dash disconnect the speedo go to girl friends house in next town put 50 cents extra in the tank

If i ever got caught they didn't let on. Oh then theres the time rolled mom's car out the drive at midnight to go to NY City we lived on this nice hill...........

Dave Crace · #3 (**permalink**) 12-16-2002, 09:18 AM

Thanks for the link Chill. My daughter will have her license in May. I have thought about doing the Audi defensive driving at RA, but this may do as well. I assume you use your own car here. I'll have to find out when the next session is.

DC

Mr.Fixit · #4 (**permalink**) 12-16-2002, 09:59 AM

What worked for me was:
Buy a cheap 69 camaro that needs restoroation at age 15. Spend a year and a half and all my time and money restoring it. When it was finished, it sat there for 6 months waiting for me to get my driver's license. When I started driving it, I KNEW how much time and money went into that car so I was too chicken to drive it hard, at least for nearly a year.

rdorman · #5 (**permalink**) 12-16-2002, 10:01 AM

There is also a good one at Mid-Ohio Sports Car course. I beleive you can use there car or your own. They have this cool skid car that they make you drive through a course to teach you how to control over and understeer and what it is like on slippery surfaces. Many insurance companies offer discounts is you send your new driver to one of these schools. Or they can learn the way most of us probably did. Lose it a few times, maybe reck a few.......

chill · #6 (**permalink**) 12-16-2002, 04:44 PM

Dave,
The kids use their own car or the car they will likely drive most. Have your daughter bring the Cobra...

Cobra #42 · #7 (**permalink**) 12-16-2002, 05:22 PM

Chill, I also teach at the Audi Teen School at Texas Motor Speedway, it is truly amazing to watch the teens grow from morning to afternoon. I would teach for free if I had to, it's so much fun to watch the teen boys faces alfter they tell you that they only need one hand to drive. Then you put them in a major oversteer and the car does a 360`, then they look at you and say ..... WHAT HAPPENED !!! That when we start comunicating. The Teen girls are usually much better students, they will listen and in the late afternoon , when we are doing timed autocrossing, don't bet on the boys, teen girls do great. If your kids think they can drive, send them to a school, they are the ones that really need it. Cheap way to keep your kids out of their next potential accident. db

A Snake · #8 (**permalink**) 12-16-2002, 05:27 PM

I wish I had

Al

chill · #9 (**permalink**) 12-17-2002, 06:27 PM

That's so right what you say about the guys vs the girls. I have found the girls just seem to concentrate more and the guys assume they were born to drive...of course we have all outgrown that kind of thinking...

ToyCollector · #10 (**permalink**) 12-17-2002, 07:11 PM

"it is truly amazing to watch the teens grow from morning to afternoon. I would teach for free if I had to"..."That's so right what you say about the guys vs the girls. I have found the girls just seem to concentrate more and..."

I am posting this for Spyderman as he didn't pay his internet bill and he just called me to post this. Spyderman says he'd like to volunteer for this. As you know, he is a top notch race car driver. He'd also like me to mention he would bring his own contraceptives.

Cobra #42 · #11 (**permalink**) 12-17-2002, 08:12 PM

Toy and Spyder, The first thing we teach the girls is the ability to spot you guys and give you the one finger salute. You sick bastards, may all your plug wires fall off

chill · #12 (**permalink**) 12-19-2002, 07:24 PM

Quote:

I am posting this for Spyderman

Sure you are TC....

LateApex · #13 (**permalink**) 12-20-2002, 12:14 PM

Chill,

check out extremepleasures.org. It is a teen "parking" school aimed at female market. Spyderman and I have started it, and I am Chief Parking Instructor. It is based at a former drive-in in Acworth

chill · #14 (**permalink**) 12-20-2002, 04:51 PM

Excellent, and hey, good use of an old drive-in...why show movies nobody watches them anyway.

(I somehow knew we could pervert most anything within a pages...)

Dave Crace · #15 (**permalink**) 12-22-2002, 05:09 AM

TC,
Now THAT is a thread killer