High importance has always been attached to technical skills while driving. It is clear that it is vital that the driver controls the vehicle and that it is not the other way around, it has been proven. However, he is given a less consideration to the mental part, which could be equally or more important. Precisely from the level of people’s behavior, Champion Skills for Safetya very innovative road safety course due to its conception and also due to its content.
It is a training that has been developed by Carlos Sainz in collaboration with Infova and which aims to raise awareness among drivers. Of course, they also want reduce accidents behind the wheel, which is the main goal of this course, of other platforms such as Ponle Freno (in which Sainz also collaborates) and, of course, of the DGT. At a technological level, manufacturers have helped a lot to reduce these figures with the driving assistance systems that mount their current cars.
There were a few years in which this caused the numbers of road deaths to drop significantly. Despite this, in recent times it seems that we have stagnated in this aspect. In addition, deaths drop, but the number of injuries in accidents does not do so much. This is where Champions Skills for Safety comes in and focuses directly on the drivers attitude. The course is about raising awareness and educating people, so that they can see their attitudes and wrong behaviors and thus be able to solve them. The main thing is not to teach to draw curves, but to develop routines and preventive behaviors.
It will be a living course, that can go away adapting to technologies they arrive as well as very interactive. Its structure consists of a first block that is done online, to check the previous beliefs that a driver may have. then there is a On-site trainingin the Carlos Sainz Karting in Las Rozas, with three well-defined modules:
- Brain Skills for Safety, distraction, concentration, attitude and speed are worked on.
- Body Skills for Safety, focused on physical and psychomotor abilities.
- Driving Skills for Safety, what has been learned is put into practice and the results are analyzed.
The Champions Skills for Safety ends with another online part for take a final test that indicates the changes that have occurred in the map of beliefs of the student or of the group itself. Initially it is a course focused on companies that want to train their workers, normally driving professionals. Although it is not ruled out that there is availability for private users or that it can evolve towards other fields. There is no doubt that we are facing one of the most innovative and interesting road safety courses today.
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