Street Survival is a Blast

Instructing at Street Survival is one of the most rewarding things I get to do all year. My student last Saturday was Melanie, a 16 year old high school junior who had been driving for 6 months. After the first classroom session, I took the wheel of her Chevy sedan while she observed from passenger seat. As I worked through the course, she looked a little nervous. The wet and dry slaloms weren’t much of a big deal, but the wet skid pad, emergency lane change and hard-braking exercises made her uncomfortable. I asked, “Have you ever been in a car with these kinds of thing happening?” Her wide-eyed answer was a simple, “No!”

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