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The nationally acclaimed New Driver Car Control Clinic® is now
available in the Tampa Bay area. The Clinic is a six-hour, hands-on, in-car accident avoidance and
defensive driving skills clinic for teens and their parents.
All parent/student teams attend an evening classroom session from
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Each team then attends one 4-hour behind-the-wheel session
in the morning or afternoon on the date selected. Learner's Permit/License and parent required for both sessions.
Price & Cancellation Policy --
Tuition is $179
per parent-student team.
The tuition is non-refundable, nor changeable to another clinic date
You may, however, give your space to another family with a new driver and work
out the finances between you. Register online below, or call 800-862-3277 for reservations or for
more information.
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Bring the Clinic directly to your High School.Call us, or have your Principal or PTA/PTO
call us at 800-862-3277 to schedule your own weekend. There is no cost to
the school.
Regarding Joshua’s Law: Please be advised that the New Driver Car Control Clinic
is a valuable, effective, hands-on, behind-the-wheel program that puts teens
into emergency situations (in a safe environment) to program their brain how to
properly respond in an emergency, and according to a government study, it has
been proven to save lives. It is not part of the Joshua’s Law curriculum
requirements. However, 4 hours spent behind-the-wheel in the Clinic may be
applied toward the 40 hours of “supervised driving with parent/guardian” portion
of Joshua’s Law.
Remember, one in four teens will crash in their first year of driving. New
Driver Car Control Clinic graduates have a proven record of 77% fewer crashes
than their untrained peers. Now, there is something parents can do to make
their new drivers safer.
The New Driver Car Control Clinic is all about changing
the anatomy of an accident
by
pre-programming the sub-conscious to break the chain of panic -- to
prepare the driver mentally and physically to react to surprises with
skill and precision. And more importantly, to recognize impending danger
earlier so that they never enter the emergency zone where accidents lurk.
This popular behind-the-wheel Clinic focuses on teaching parents and teens
critical accident-avoidance maneuvers and defensive-driving skills such as
- Eye Management - judging
spatial relationships
- Steering Management -
making the car go precisely where you want it to, even in an emergency and
- Brake Management - the
so-called panic stop without the panic.
- The exercises are performed in a series of cone patterns in
the family's own car on both Wet And Dry Pavement.
"Driving is a psychomotor skill," says Clinic founder
David Thompson. "Just like learning to play the piano requires an actual
keyboard, so does learning to control an automobile in an emergency demand
that you actually drive a car."
Why skill training is different than Drivers Ed.
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How it Works & What's Required
-- Parents are required at both the classroom and behind-the-wheel sessions.
Behind-the-wheel sessions are limited to ten parent-student teams per session.
Teens must have at least their Learner's Permit
(Temps). The teen should have enough driving
experience to be comfortable making the car go forwards, backwards,
left and right. This usually requires from 4 to 8 hours behind the wheel.
Families use their own car -- preferably the
one the teen is most likely to end up driving. Each team receives a 90-minute
classroom session on vehicle dynamics and human dynamics -- why the car, and the
driver, behave the way they do in an emergency; -- 4 hours of in-car
instruction; a 45-minute video and 56-page workbook with diagrams of ten
exercises, a log and a Parent-Teen contract so that they can continue to
practice these life-saving maneuvers.
Who We Are -- The New Driver Car
Control Clinic is an ten-year-old program available in Florida,
Tennessee, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio and Georgia. Developed by
automotive journalist and racecar driver David Thompson, the curriculum is
an adaptation of the skills taught to fire, police and other emergency
vehicle drivers. Terri Ranson, driver's education teacher in North
Carolina says, "Thirty hours of classroom and six hours behind the wheel
[in traditional driver's ed] cannot truly make a safe driver. This program
is a wonderful grand finale to what we start in driver's ed. I highly
recommend it." Florida parents and teens agree. "This course saved my
child's life," Debbie Still of Palm Beach says. "If I had a million
dollars I would take every one of my son's friends to this clinic in case
he is ever riding with them in an emergency situation. I have my son
today, thanks to [this clinic]," she exclaims.
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