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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

About Drivers Ed - They Do It For High End Of Performance Cars Too

By John Robertson

For many when you think about Drivers Ed, it's just the thing you have to do before you can get your driving licence. The classes and theory and possibly boredom. Once you've done it you don't need to do it again unless you get a bad driving record and get sent back for a refresher course - right? Wrong! One of the world's most expensive and desirable sports cars, Porsche, has been running numerous Drivers Ed courses for their owners and enthusiasts. And they have been successfully doing this for the last thirty years.

Drivers all must master the basics before they are permitted to do more advanced training. It is a structured approach like any good training course.

Basic training or 'warm-ups' as they are named cover familiar items to every driver the idea of where seats should be, how to handle traffic, how to do safe emergency braking. For many the goal is simply to understand their powerful car and to be able to drive it safely for others it is a stepping stone to more intense driving.

Beyond the basics is a day course that follows the warm-up where the participants spend a day on a racing track - not necessarily going for speed, but learning lines and generally improving their skills for driving.

Off road training is also offered starting from the absolute basics including how to judge the terrain and what low gear options are for. Often these are done as part of a travel experience. Sand driving in the deserts of Dubai or off-road circuits in Germany.

They do the same for winter driving. Instead of just teaching the theory of snow and ice they make it real with a dedicated driving facility in the arctic conditions of Finland. Here you learn to be a safer driver and get to practice what you are taught. If you have nerves of steel you can go on to do masters courses where you drift on ice, test yourself on slalom precision courses and learn to drive downhill.

While all this sounds fun the serious message of ecological responsibility is not forgotten. Drivers are briefed on how to use certain features of their vehicles to drive more efficiently. Areas such as avoiding unnecessary acceleration on braking are taught to improve driver's fuel consumption statistics.

And you to learn from trained professionals. They are passionate about the vehicles and come from the ranks of Porsche designers, engineers and testers. They know these cars totally. The program itself is available in many countries around the world from Japan to Brazil, from Europe to the USA.

When we learn to drive we think about Drivers Ed as the foundation needed to make us capable drivers. A necessary step along the path to getting your licence. What we sometimes forget is that it is a life long learning process. While Porsche driving training may be outside the wallets of most people, it shows that learning keeps going and it can be fun. - 21392

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