Driving in the Real World®
What the Motorists Handbooks Don’t Tell You.
Driving in the Real World® (DITRW®) is a change agent for thinking differently about street driving and traffic safety in the real world. American driver training generally fails to teach new drivers the complexities of modern roads and equip them with proper situational awareness. This and other factors contribute to the United States ranking a dismal 29th out of 30 developed nations in traffic deaths. Let’s change this by exploring honestly what makes us the drivers we are and by approaching traffic safety as an entire ecosystem, not fragmented bits. That change can begin with you, today, as an individual driver.
— Mi Ae Lipe, Writer, Consultant, Speaker, Change Agent
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At the end of this past March, my father, Dewey Lipe, transitioned in his sleep after a tremendous 14-year journey with Lewy Body dementia and Parkinson's. Normally, my blog posts here are about driving technique and traffic safety culture, but I wanted to take this...
read moreInstructional Video: Assessing Limit Points
“Always drive so you can stop safely within the distance you can see to be clear on your own side of the road” is a mantra of UK driver training that should be followed everywhere, all the time. But how do you correctly assess a curve and your entry speed into it? Many people incorrectly assume “How fast can I go?” when they should be thinking “Could I stop if I had to?” This video by Roadcraft Save & Exit Nottingham shows the hazards of curves and how you should properly adjust for them.
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I am pleased to announce that my eagerly anticipated ebook, The Sound of No Car Crashing: A Guide to Protective Driving, is now available. Its premise is simple: Let’s make a pledge to drive protectively, not defensively. “Defensive” suggests danger and competition, when the goal should be to drive for the protection of yourself and others.
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All Roads Lead to Possibilities
Through this blog, social media, and upcoming ebook, Driving in the Real World® offers useful street-driving techniques, provocative thought-experiments, practical safety tips, and incredibly high-quality resources that will help you think and act differently as a better driver. Its content may even save your life and that of others.
The US ranks nearly at the very bottom internationally among developed countries when it comes to traffic safety and road fatalities. The reasons for this are many. To combat this, we need to start making it socially unacceptable to be a bad driver in America, regardless of the cause. This means identifying the true root causes of why we drive so poorly as individuals, examining international best practices for driver training, rethinking our relationship with law enforcement, not relegating driver education to a once-in-a-lifetime event, and employing proven behavioral science and creative media to effect powerful cultural changes in our attitude toward traffic safety.
Many people don’t realize this, but what makes you a better driver also improves you in many other areas of life. This involves honestly self-examining our core values as individuals and a society, understanding why we’re often resistant to positive change. Traffic safety is actually a fantastic way to not only save lives but improve ourselves. Let’s get curious enough to inquire and brave enough to tackle.
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I am pleased to announce that my eagerly anticipated ebook, The Sound of No Car Crashing: A Guide to Protective Driving, is now available. Its premise is simple: Let’s make a pledge to drive protectively, not defensively. “Defensive” suggests danger and competition, when the goal should be to drive for the protection of yourself and others.
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