What is Advanced Driving?
Advanced driving is about developing a comprehensive understanding of safety, road craft, vehicle control, mind set and ultimately, how to better enjoy your time behind the wheel.
Master the art of driving. Be The Better Driver
With Driving Masters, you’ll discover a world of Advanced Driving that goes above and beyond traditional teachings. We think and act differently and challenge the thinking that that has slowed innovation in this space.
Driving Masters has developed an array of coaching methodologies with our experienced team. New vehicles and new technologies need new thinking.
We want to cultivate your ‘sixth sense’ on the road and elevate your driving skill and pleasure.
Defensive Driving
Defensive driving is a strategy that ensures you anticipate other drivers’ moves and make decisions that prioritise safety.
Instead of reacting to what others do, you proactively minimize risks and potential hazards.
Visual Scanning
Moving beyond ‘Mirror, signal, manouvre’, advanced drivers use a more comprehensive scanning technique to assess the road ahead.
Advanced scanning techniques become habit, benefiting every journey.
Planning
Advanced drivers are taught to ‘plan and plot’ comprehensively.
A broad variety of skills and techniques are used to maximise safety and control using deeper analyses. DM coaches teach the ‘Driving Masters Expert Driving Plan’.
Mind Set
What's your state of mind when you get behind the wheel?
Developing an ability to ground yourself when starting a journey is vital. Management of your emotions in response to conflict and aggression from others, is the most powerful skill at your disposal.
Focus & Attention
A modern car is full of distractions, be it your passengers, your phone, the sat-nav or Spotify.
Advanced drivers become expert at managing their focus, ensuring attention is on the road scene and their own vehicle.
Decision Making
Advanced drivers make safe yet rapid decisions based on the information they've gathered about the risks ahead.
By foreseeing and dealing with potential emergencies and hazards, decision making follows learned patterns ensuring a much higher level of safety.
‘Making Progress’
This is a term often used inappropriately as a euphemism for purely driving quickly. The best progress is of course safe progress at a speed appropriate to the conditions and your skills.
Driving a road efficiently, smoothly and safely isn't about taking more risks, it's about mitigation of risk and considering driver ability, the weather and road and traffic conditions.
Creating Space and Time
It's all to easy to just follow the car in front. Advanced drivers are more deliberate about where they position their vehicles.
Using well-timed positioning of the car on the road, planned actions create more space and increase the time to react to any unexpected scenario.
Vehicle Control
With regular family cars now exceeding two tonnes in weight, understanding vehicle dynamics is more important than ever.
Advanced drivers must develop knowledge of the relationships between steering, braking and acceleration and how different vehicles’ characteristics will play manifest themselves on the road.
Advanced Handling
Understeer and oversteer - terms banded about by many a car enthusiast - are vitally important to understand.
Many drivers will encounter the effects at some point in their driving career. Advanced drivers will plan avoidance, but should it happen developing instinctive responses is a valuable skill.
Advanced Driver Training
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However advanced your driving is, our team of coaches can develop it further.
Explore NowSit back after a drive and reflect on what happened. Ask yourself “Could I have improved in any way?”
Learn from every mile, enjoy the next mile more.
– Paul Ripley