Evasion Tactics

Evasion Tactics  If a person is using the highest level of advanced driving technique, evasion tactics such as maintaining control while using crisis steering should be no more than a million-to-one occurrence. The whole point of proper advanced driving is that it teaches anticipation and planning to such an extent that good drivers will entirely avoid the crises that trigger such evasion maneuvers.

     Be aware that courses which offer this type of training are not by any means providing true advanced driving standards.

     To put it another way, consider which you would prefer: seeing a dangerous incident or a crash happen and thinking to yourself "I'm glad I knew enough to keep out of that," or feeling great shock or fear as you frantically try to swerve back and forth to avoid grave danger.

     For similar reasons, teaching people skid control techniques without first teaching them that only someone driving very badly ever gets into a skid, can be very counterproductive and dangerous. See 'Skid Training,' below.