Ford Defensive Driving Academy in Samara

22 October 2015

Ford Defensive Driving Academy embarks its second year in Russia. Professional instructors with many years of experience, winners of Russian and international competitions with unique knowledge on road safety, teach young drivers about emergency braking, response time, blind zones and other important topics of road safety. Practice trainings also include exercises demonstrating dangers of drunk driving, importance of seat belts, and tragic consequences of a single text sent while driving.

Training participants were able to test out special drunk goggles. None of the participants that tried the goggles on was able to do the simplest of things – for example, to catch a ball or to walk in a straight line without knocking off road cones.

Ford Defensive Driving Academy students are usually most impressed with the collision simulator – during a special exercise, they are able to get a firsthand experience of an 18 km/h collision. The same simulator helps to demonstrate the importance of child car seats. When in the simulator, the participants of the exercise hold a child-sized doll in their hands, which helps them to get a first-hand experience of how difficult it is to hold on to something during a crash, and how highly possible it is to harm the child instead of protecting it.

One of other topics covered by the organizers of the Ford Defensive Driving Academy is the importance of light reflective elements. Shortened daylight hours typical for winter only strengthen the necessity of using reflective elements on your clothing. Young drivers were able to comprehend this concept with the help of their instructors – special vests with reflective elements worn by the instructors made them visible from 150 meters when compared to 20-30 meters of visibility without the vests.

Samara of one of the biggest Russian transportation nods; it connects Central and West Europe with Siberia, Middle Asia, and Kazakhstan. The intensity of road traffic in the region has been one of the reasons for organizers to include it in the Ford Defensive Driving Academy program, as the more intensive is the traffic, the more attentive and skillful must be the driver.

“Getting your driver’s license today requires more knowledge, skills, and practice than before. The State Road Traffic Inspectorate and driving schools in Russia are joining efforts to prepare and teach future drivers as much material as possible. Unfortunately, young drivers are often getting in road accidents that could have been prevented. It is great that now we have an opportunity to do just so by providing further education”, – Igor Antonov, the Head of the Samara Region Department of the State Road Traffic Inspectorate at the Russian Ministry of Interior.

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