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Michigan Basic Driver Improvement Course

Introduction

Session 1: It’s All About Choices

  • Explain what it means to be a defensive driver.
  • Define reasonable action and preventable collision.
  • Determine your driving profile.
  • List the three basic steps in the DDC Collision Prevention Formula.
  • Explain the “What if?” strategy

Session 2: Ready For The Road
  • List the factors you can control before you start to drive, including your own physical and emotional/mental conditions, as well as vehicle maintenance.
  • Describe the varying physical, emotional, and mental conditions of other drivers on the road.
  • Explain how to be alert and defensive when sharing the road with these drivers.
  • Explain how to drive defensively in conditions beyond your control—such as light, weather, road conditions, and traffic mix.

Session 3: Don’t Add Insult To Injury
  • Describe the characteristics of impaired, distracted, fatigued, and aggressive drivers.
  • Identify actions you can take when you experience or encounter these characteristics on the road.
  • Employ techniques to manage your emotions and behavior while driving.

Session 4: Success On The Road
  • List the six most unsafe driving behaviors.
  • Describe the hazards involved with each of the unsafe driving behaviors.
  • List alternatives to speeding.
  • Explain how to safely approach and proceed through intersections.
  • Explain how to make safe and legal turns.
  • Explain the steps needed to complete a safe pass.
  • Determine a safe following distance.

Session 5: Collision Proofing
  • Apply the DDC Collision Prevention Formula.
  • Explain the “What If?” strategy.
  • Recognize hazards in collision scenarios.
  • Identify standard road sign colors and shapes.
  • Identify reasonable steps that might have prevented real-life collisions.

Session 6: Driving For Life, you will learn how to:
  • List the ten habits of defensive driving.
  • Identify personal behaviors and decisions you will make in future driving situations to avoid collisions and violations.
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