Welcome to Professor Mottola’s Driving MIND eCoach
This program is for licensed drivers, and for parents or mentors of unlicensed teenagers. A teenager is able to learn and practice habits of awareness, and speed control strategies, as co-drivers before learning how to drive, which can cultivate the habits needed to avoid crashes!
Crashes are not only a teen problem! Over eighty percent of all crashes are caused by adults. This program provides an opportunity for licensed drivers of any age to receive training that goes lightyears beyond what was required to pass a licensing exam. Most never learned the consequences of playing the “driver’s reverse lottery.”
How often have you unknowingly played the “Driver’s Reverse Lottery?”
Learn about the Driver’s Reverse Lottery
Parents of teens are able to encourage their teens to practice the Zone Control strategies into habits and have an opportunity to evaluate their own. performance. Here is how habits are developed in this course.
Intro Your Choice Awareness or Crash!
Cultivating The Zone Control Actions Into Habit
View the link below to see how this course is structured.
Introduction to Family Wellness Training
The Bronze, Silver, and Gold Levels of Strategies
There are three levels to this course.
The Bronze Level provides all of the essential “tools” that are needed by any user of the roadway system as a pedestrian, bicyclist, passenger, or motorist to operate in a stress-free, efficient, courteous, and safe manner. Teens who successfully complete all seven bronze chapters can earn the Zone Control Co-Driver License as pre-driver-ed training.
The Silver Level is for teens learning to drive, as well as for any driver who wants to acquire precise skills for maneuvering the vehicle. These are learned and mastered step-by-step in a parking lot. Click here to see the Silver Level Chapters
The Gold Level takes place on the road in all types of environments, where habits are tested and coached. Awareness and Speed Control are cultivated into habits for Zero Crashes. Click here to see the Gold Level Chapters
Bronze Level of Training
As a licensed driver, you can learn from this Driving MIND eCoach one set of strategies at a time. You are then able to use those strategies as a standard by which to judge your habits. If you already have the best habits, you can feel good about doing the right things. If you don’t, then you can use the Driving MIND Practice Cues eBook to get the necessary repetitions for habits to form. After you are satisfied with your performance, you can come back here to learn more strategies from another chapter.
For Parents of Teenagers, the Bronze Level activities resolve two major conflicts that most loving parents are confronted with. Until the teen receives their license, their parents are their chauffeurs, which places a demand on their time. When the teen becomes licensed it frees up the parent’s time. However, newly licensed teens are most often involved in a crash within their first two years of driving because they haven’t yet developed their actions into safe driving habits, so the parents worry about their safety. Another major concern for parents is how safe their teens will be when riding with their friends, as the majority of teens killed in car crashes are passengers!
Parents can require teens who are 13 years of age, or older, to learn the Bronze Level strategies and earn the Zone Control Co-Driver License before riding with their friends. Then, when they do become of licensing age, they could have a year or more of awareness training to give them better car control habits than those of the average adult driver.
Explore some of the strategies in these chapters to see if you would want those to become your habits.
Bronze Level Includes these Chapters:
Chapter 1 – Pedestrian, Passenger, Co-Driver Zero Crash Awareness
Chapter 2 – Targeting for Vision Usage and Car Control
Chapter 3 – Being Courteous is a Gift to Yourself!
Chapter 4 – Separation Space puts YOU in Control
Chapter 5 – Selective Attention Matrix (SAM) Control the “Critical Seconds”
Chapter 6 – Rear Zone Control to be Courteous
Chapter 7 – Reference Points for Vehicle Placement
Chapter 8 – Habits to Prevent, Detect, and Correct Skids