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The Q and A Section follows the Registration Section
NO-OBLIGATION REGISTRATION #1 This is not an enrollment.
This is information only.
This web site isnotinteractive.
You cannot type anything on to this page. Completing this information is necessary for a fee quote.
Please return this information to me by email at jodacollins@aol.com or voice mail (850 981-3355) if you do not use email.
This is no-obligation request for information for Clients that are NOT 3/3 drivers.If you do NOT know what a 3/3 driver is, this IS your No-obligation Registration. If you are a 3/3 driver, scroll down toNo-Obligation Registration #2 now. If you are not a 3/3 Driver or do not know what a 3/3 Driver is, continue reading.
While this process may be altered, the typical process that leads to training is: 1. No-Obligation Registration.
2. I (Joda Collins) understand services wanted by the Client.
3. The Client approves the financial proposal.
4. The Client approves Contracts Four, Five and Six and Student-driver approves Contract Five.
5. Payment then Scheduling or Scheduling then Payment, depending on several variables.
6. Training.
I do not use I or O for designations as I can be me or you, the number one or a lower case L, and O can be a number or a letter.
I am not trying to be less than personable by doing as much as I can via the Internet and email rather than on the phone or in person. I am trying to keep expenses down as much as possible so I can keep charges as low as I can.
1. STUDENT-DRIVER'S INFORMATION A. Name as it appears on driver license/permit.
B. Driver license or driver permit number. C. Is the Student-driver 18-years of age or over?
D. The Student-driver's specified goal or goals for driver training. Be as general or as specific as you want. E. Does the Student-driver and the Client, if not the same person, live in the same residence as the Client (financially responsible person)?
2. CLIENT'S (financially responsible person's) INFORMATION AND SERVICE INQUIRIES or the name of the responsible adult if your fees are paid by an organization. Go to H if the Client and the Student-driver are the same person.
F. Your name.
G. The Client's specified goal or goal for driver training. Be as general or as specific as you want.
H. Email address. J. Telephone number(s). K. Complete mailing address, including City, State and Zip. L. Charges are guaranteed for 30-days from the original offer in an email, 30-days from any/every payment date, and 90-days from the completion of the most recent paid for lesson.
M. It is very important that you get a fair idea of the content of this Contract in full, before submitting the answers to the questions below. Doing so, will avoid confusion, difficulties, added effort and lost time. You need not have a 100% understanding of everything in this Contract before submitting the answers to these questions. One slow and careful read is sufficient for now.
N. Before proceeding, I recommend that you review Contract Six.
(1). Go to top of page and click on Contract 6 & 7, and review Contract 6 (not 7). (2). Then come back to this Registration Page and continue reading. This large X is designed to help you relocate this location easier.
P. Charges are based on a client's selection of optional services and charges are linked to services. To get a no-obligation fee quote, provide the following information by email to jodacollins@aol.com. You can copy and paste this section to an email, or you can simply type in the letters such as b, d, e, g j, m, p.
(1). Responses n and q do require filling in the blank.
(2). You can change your mind about anything below, later.
(3). The first option following each question is always the least expensive option.
1. Will you be using your insured vehicle or the Joda Collins Driving Academy vehicle for over-the-road training? The driver must be insured to drive the vehicle, not just the vehicle insured.
a. The Client's vehicle. b. The Joda Collins Driving Academy vehicle.
2. Will you be using your insured vehicle or the Joda Collins Driving Academy vehicle for parking and/or three-point turn training? c. The Client's vehicle. d. The Joda Collins Driving Academy Vehicle.
3. Do you anticipate you will be training for the first lesson on a:
e. Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday?
f. Or, a Friday or Saturday?
4. Are you the Client (financially responsible person)?
g. Yes. h. No
5. Will you be able and willing to complete all future communication about the Contract, services and fees by email, rather than by phone or voice mail? j. Yes k. No.
6. I want to begin and end lesson(s) at:
m. 3804 Garcon Pointe Road, Milton, 32583 (1/10th of one mile off of I-10, 6.5 miles East of Pensacola), or
n. At the following address: Number, Street/Avenue/Court/Drive, City, Zip.
7. The quote for training will be for a 75-minute lesson unless you ask for a quote for more or less than 75-minutes. Training can be anywhere between one-hour and six-hours per lesson. Generally, the most productive time frame is between 75-minutes and two-hours. p. I would like a quote for 75-minute lessons.
q. I would like a quote for _____-minute lessons.
3. WHAT IS NEXT? I will contact you via email and walk you through the process that leads to training starting with the financial proposal.
NO-OBLIGATION REGISTRATION #2
ONLY FOR STATE MANDATED TRAINING IN ORDER TO KEEP OR REGAIN YOUR DRIVER LICENSE
This is a request for information. This web site is not interactive. Please send this information to me by email at jodacollins@aol.com or voice mail (850 981-3355) if you do not use email. You do not need to reproduce the following. Just provide the info in the order it is requested. I can tell by your response what question you are responding to. You can copy and paste from this webpage. This Registration expires 30-days after completing it and if payment occurs within that 30 day, this Registration expires 30-days after a payment.
The typical process that leads to scheduling:
1. Registration (this form).
2. Client (financially responsible person)
reads/reviews Contract Seven.
3. Clarification of services requested.
4. Agreement on charges.
5. Receipt of payment.
6. Scheduling.
1. STUDENT-DRIVER INFORMATION
A. Your name exactly as it appears on your driver license or State ID (same number).
B. Your driver license or State ID Number.
C. Your date of birth.
D. The last four numbers of your Social Security Number:
E. Your third citation number/letter designation. (This number/letter designation, is found in paperwork mailed to you from Tallahassee.)
F. If your driver license is not currently active, what is the date of your letter from the Tallahassee that denotes you must have that letter with you during the four hours of driver training?
(1). If your driver license is not currently valid and you do not have that letter (temporary), call 850 617 2000 to ask for it. Call as close to 7:01am and 7:05am on non-holiday weekdays to avoid a long hold time. (2). If you cannot get through, you can request your temporary permit at (delete spaces):
https://flhsmv.service-now.com/csp?id=sc_cat_item_attachment&sys_id=6c7f9f9347959d101a 1968aaf36d43d3 .
G. Are you the financially responsible person for driver training fees? If not, what is the:
(1). Name
(2). Complete mailing address
(3). Email address, and
(4). Phone number
of the financially responsible person for your training fees?
H. Have the Student-driver ever had Three-in-Three training with me before? If so, how many times?
J. Please read Contract Seven carefully. It is not important that you understand it perfectly now, but is important that you read it carefully, one time, to get the general idea before proceeding to K below.
K. You can answer all questions below by using only the letters a, b, c, d followed by the address, e, f, g and/or h.
L. After a careful read of Contract Seven:
(1). Do you anticipate training on a:
(a). A Tuesday, Wednesday or Saturday, or
(b). A Friday or Saturday?
(2). Where would you like to start and end your training?
(c). At Joda Collins location on Garcon Point Road, at Exit 26, 1/10th of one mile off of Interestate 10, or
(d). At another address. If so, please provide the complete address so I can provide to you a quote for my service to provide that door-to-door service.
(3). What vehicle will you be using for your training.
(e). A vehicle that you can prove that you are currently insured to drive, or
(f). The Joda Collins Driving Academy vehicle?
(4). Will you be training in:
(g). One four-hour session, or
(h). Two, two-hour sessions?
Q and A Section
This section is new and will develop as I have time to create it.
THREE-POINT TURN
I do not teach the three-point turn in my vehicle with the Student-driver behind-the- wheel of my vehicle. There are excellent reasons for this that I will cheerfully clarify upon request. I do show the three-point turn to the Student-driver with me behind-the-wheel, AFTER the Student-driver memorizes the steps (procedure) for the three-point turn well enough to quote them without hesitation or error and upon request. Or, I do teach the three-point turn with the driver behind-the-wheel in any vehicle, other than mine, even if the Student-driver has not memorized the steps for the three-point turn, if the Client can show written proof that the Student-driver is covered by the vehicle insurance.
PARKING I do not teach parking in my vehicle with the Student-driver behind-the-wheel of my vehicle. There are excellent reasons for this that I will cheerfully clarify upon request. I do show parking skills/procedure to the Student-driver with me behind-the-wheel, AFTER the Student-driver learns the three-point turn skills. Or, I do teach the parking with the driver behind-the-wheel in any vehicle, other than mine, even if the Student-driver cannot do the three-point turn, if the Client can show written proof that the Student-driver is covered by the vehicle insurance.
Unless otherwise directed use this procedure (memory steps) for the three-point turn:
Slow, Right, Look, Signal, Stop.
Turn, Look, Coast, Stop, Reverse.
Turn, Look, Coast, Stop, Drive.
Turn, Look, Coast, Accelerate.
Entering a parking space when using a private vehicle for parking.
1. Go slow, get far right, look over left shoulder and if safe, signal left.
2. Stop, turn wheel 90% full left.
3. When safe, coast.
4. Steer right in order to stop with car centered in lane.
5. Point front wheels straight.
6. Put parking brake on and transmission in park.
Note: "When safe," means you look in every possible direction from which a vehicle or pedestrian might reasonably be about to enter your line of travel.
Exiting a parking space when using a private vehicle for parking.
1. When safe, put in reverse, release parking brake when safe, back.
2. Stop when my front bumper is even with back bumper of vehicle on right or left.
3. Turn wheel 100% in the direction you want the back end of vehicle to go. .
4. When safe, back up, stop at 45-degree angle and put in drive.
5. Turn wheel 100% in the direction you want the front of the vehicle to go and when safe, accelerate.
View: http://activerain.com/blogsview/505780/a-slice-of-life
Three Point Turn when using a private vehicle for three point turn training.
1. Go slow, get far right, look over left shoulder and if safe signal left and stop.
2. Turn 100% left and, when safe, coast, stop and put in reverse.
3. Turn 100% right, when safe coast back, stop and put in drive.
4 Turn 100% left and when safe, go.
There is more to entering and exiting a parking space than what is noted above, but the additional information is easily incorporated into the steps above once the steps above are memorized.
Entering a parking space when using Academy vehicle for parking.
1. Go slow
2. Get far right
3. Look over left shoulder and if safe.
4. Signal left.
5. Stop.
6. When safe, coast at 0 to 1 mph and then
7. Turn wheel fast 1.5 turns left (as soon as your from bumper passes post.
8. Turn wheel to 1.5 turns to right.
9. Stop centered in your lane one to 12 inches from curb or concrete stop.
10. Put parking brake on and transmission in Park.
Exiting a parking space when using Academy vehicle for parking.
1. When safe, put in reverse and when safe, back.
2. Stop when told to do so, when directed turn wheel full left then stop vehicle at 45 degree angle.
3. Put in drive and when safe, coast at 0.1 to 1mph and then steer into your lane.
Three Point Turn when using Academy vehicle for three point turn training.
1. Go slow, get far right, look over left shoulder and if safe signal left and stop.
2. When safe, remove some brake pressure, coast, and turn full left and stop before any part of vehicle goes off the road.
3. Put in reverse, when safe, coast with partial brake pressure on, turn wheel full right as fast as you can, stop when told.
4 Put in drive, when safe, remove some brake pressure, coast while turning wheel left as fast as you can and steer into your lane.
Note: "Stop," means "stop" when I (Joda Collins) tell you to stop. "Coasting," is always at 0 to 1mph, accomplished by keeping some brake pressure on.
There is more to entering and exiting a parking space than what is noted above, but the additional information is easily incorporated into the steps above once the steps above are memorized.
We offer a free written Memory Course that, upon completing, most student drivers have memorized the parking procedures. That free Memory Course is found at
http://www.lulu.com/shop/joda-collins/driving-skills-memory-work/paperback/product-20127983.html
If you want to use this Memory training and need more direction to do so, just ask!
For student-drivers that have completed the Driving Skills Memory Workbook and turned in the completed written work to us (as evidence of completion of the Memory Workbook) and still find they cannot memorize the steps for parking, we set you down at a table and quote each step to you one and you restate them. We do this for one hour. So far, everyone who thought they could not memorize, did.
Every driver that has secured a driver's license in the State of Florida has memorized steps for parking and a three-point-turn. You can do it, too.
Even if the vehicle that the driver will use for the State test is not available for use for training, I still prefer to use the Client's or Student-drivers personal vehicle instead of my vehicle for parking and three point turn training. That is because I do not allow my vehicle have the steering wheel turned while the vehicle is stationary. It is very hard on the power steering over a long period of time. It will not hurt power steering if done a few hundred times, but can damage the power steering when done a few thousand times as it is when done in a vehicle use for training every day.
FREE TRAINING (PARKING AND THREE POINT TURN)
I do not charge for parking and/or three point turn training, in whole or in part, if the following conditions are met:
1. Driver has memorized the steps for parking and three point turn, in whole or in part, well enough to quote them without hesitation or assistance and upon request before training for parking and three point turn during paid sessions. This means driver does not have memorize all the steps at one time. Memorize as much or as little as you want and we can practice what you have memorizes free of charge to you anytime you want. It only takes about 45 seconds to to a complete three point turn after steps are memorized and it only takes about two minutes to enter and exit a parking space in accord with State law once the steps are memorized. So, all I do is a two or three minutes to any existing lesson at no charge any time a driver wants to practice what he or she has memorized of the steps for parking and/or three point turn.
2. Before memorizing the steps for parking and three point turn, read the red and green print above.
ADDITIONAL OFFER
I (Joda Collins) will train any licensed driver to train any person how to pass the parking and three-point turn part of the State driving exam for the standard per lesson fee. Requirements:
1. This training must be added to an existing lesson of 60 or more minutes.
2. The training has to take place in the Client's insured vehicle.
3. The maximum training time per 60 -minute or longer lesson is 15-minutes unless otherwise arranged. Most experienced drivers can learn to teach parking and three point turn in 15-minutes.
ADDITIONAL OFFER
Any Client can ride during parking and three point turn training of his or her Student-Driver and learn from watching how to train for parking and three-point turn. Charge for riding and learning how to teach parking and three-point turn is zero dollars. Standard training fees still apply for Student-Driver training.
I will train any Client to train any student to do parking and three-point turn. Standard training fees still apply.
If you have any remaining questions, just ask!
SECTION TWO
This is for those directed here. If you have not been directed to this Section, it will not make sense to you.
THREE POINT TURN
Far right
Go slow
Look
Signal
Stop
Turn
Look
Coast
Stop
Reverse
Turn
Look
Coast
Stop
Drive
Turn
Look
Go
ENTERING PARKING SPACE
Get right
Go slow
Look
Signal
Stop
Turn
Look
Coast
Stop
Parking & transmission brakes.
EXITING A PARKING SPACE
Reverse
Look
Coast
Stop
Turn
Look
Coast
Stop
Turn
Look
Go
Turn steering full left when parked uphill with curb on right.
Moving vehicle must miss pedestrian by three feet minimum.
Put both feet on brake. Hold brake down with left foot. Move right foot to accelerator. Small acceleration. Remove left foot from brake.
One difference is turn lane is shorter than deceleration lane.
Know where horn, emergency flashers, bright and dim headlights are.
CLARIFICATION OF FREE THREE POINT TURN TRAINING
What follows was in response to a real email which read: "Mr. Collins, you said I would get some FREE three-point turn training today and I did not. Why?"
My Response: Free behind-the-wheel training is unusual for any driving school to offer. Unlike other businesses, such as grocery stores for example, that can offers something for free or at a reduced price and can make up the lost profit on the sale of other items, driving schools only have one product/service which is driver's training.
Eighty percent of driver's training is cognitive/mental only. Ten percent of driver's training is a combination of cognitive and physical.
Ten percent of driver's training is physical.
1. COGNITIVE/MENTAL ONLY (80%)
A. Learning the rules of the road and how to apply those rules of the road in traffic,
B. Learning the 12 General Safety skills and now to apply those skills in traffic and
C. Learning the 23 Defensive Driving Techniques and how to apply those techniques in traffic.
2. A COMBINATION OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL (10%)
A. Learning how the steering wheel influences the front tires.
B. Learning how the brake and accelerator influences the speed of the vehicle.
C. Learning when and how to use coasting.
D. Memorizing the steps for parking and three point turn.
Ten percent of drivers training is:
2. PHYSICAL (10%)
A. Learning the physical moves to safely operate the accelerator, brake and steering.
I give away FREE driver's training in the following ways:
1. The workbook which is all mental/cognitive.
2. These emails which is all mental/cognitive.
3. The written steps for parking and three point turn, which is all mental/cognitive.
4. Responding to any questions about driving presented in email format which is cognitive/mental.
5. Under specific conditions, couple of minutes at the start of each lesson devoted to free three-point turn and parking skills, which is a combination of mental/cognitive (memorizing the steps) and physical (doing the memorized steps behind the wheel).
Now, let's take the major points made in this note so far and put them together.
1. It is unusual for a driving school to give away driver's training whether it be cognitive/mental skill information, physical training behind the wheel or any combination of physical and mental/cognitive training.
2. FREE three point turn training consists of memorizing the steps and doing them. However, I only give away a minute or two free driver's training per lesson and only until driver can do the three-point turn and parking well enough to pass that part of the State exam.
Questions? Just ask.
Sincerely,
Joda Collins
SECTION THREE
SAVING MONEY!
OUR MOTTO IS "WE GO THE EXTRA MILE."
In the days of Jesus on Earth, any Roman Solider to order any person to carry anything the Roman Soldier was carrying and do so for up to one mile. Jesus said, if a Roman Soldier orders you to carry his gear (or anything else) for a mile, then volunteer to carry it an extra mile. In other words, do twice as much for the Roman Solider than is required and do it with a positive attitude.
In order to fulfill our motto, we have to give you the opportunity of progress through the training at twice the rate, therefore at half the expense. Drivers who:
1. Memorize the steps for parking and three point turn.
2. Memorize the assigned 10-words prior to the start of lesson one.
3. Do the assigned three hours of self-study in preparation for each lesson starting with lesson two. Client's must ask for this reading material early as it requires the purchase of a study workbook that is found online.
4. Read and reflect on progress reports after each lesson.
5. Learn hand over hand steering on their own time.
6. Learn to let the wheel slide through hands to complete standard 90-degree turns on their own time
Progress twice as fast and at half the expense compared to drivers who do none of the above.
A. MEMORIZE
Memorize the following 10-words in consecutive order before the start of your initial driving session, "Ahead, Behind, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, Ahead, Behind, Mirror, Shoulder, Move." Save $30.00 (not $30 off, but $30 less).
B. MEMORIZE
Memorize the steps (procedure) for parking and three-point-turn on your own time. Save $150.00. (Not $150 off but $150 less.)
C. FREE written report of your driving progress and/or needs after each or almost every lesson. Learn by reading. You have to ask for this report via return email. Mr. Collins pays a Secretary $15 to turn his coded notes into something you can read if and only if you want those notes sent to you email FREE of charge to you. Only about 30% of drivers and 70% of Clients want those notes, so Mr. Collins does not spend the money producing them if they are not valued. One request is all that is needed for notes after every lesson.
D. WORKBOOK
Read 15-pages of the study Workbook in preparation for your initial training session. That workbook is attached to your first email from us. Or, you can order the workbook on line at
http://www.lulu.com/shop/joda-collins/joda-collins-driving-academy-course-workbook/paperback/product-24099355.html
Read for a devoted one-hour from the study workbook in preparation for each lesson beginning with lesson two and turn in the self-study written work, unsolicited, at the start of each lesson. Save 10% to 30% of your tuition expense (not 10% to 30% off, but 10% go 30% less) because you will progress faster thus invest less money in training.
None of the workbook is required reading. None of the reading is expected. The workbook is nothing like the Florida Official Driver's Manual. The workbook is optional reading for those who want to progress faster through the training, thus at a lower expense. Some find it very helpful and progress up to twice as fast and therefore at half the expense. Others find it tedious reading and of no value at all.
For example, if I gave an elementary school student a copy of the times tables on Monday and said we would study the times tables on Friday and I would charge the student's parents $1.68 per minute for every minute it took me on Friday to teach the times tables and between Monday and Friday the child spent eight hours memorizing the times tables, on Friday I would ask the child a dozen or so times tables questions such as what is 3 times 3, 6 times 4, 7 times 9 and so on. If the child got every answer right I would know in about a minute or so if the child had learned the times tables. If so, I would charge the student's parents about $2.00. However, if the student waited until Friday to study the times table with me as the teacher and it took him or her eight classroom hours to learn the times tables, the charge tot the parent would be $1.68 times 60 minutes times eight hours = $806.00. The savings for the first child is $804 ($806 minus $2). That is not $804 off, but it is $804 saved.
That is the way it is with driver's training. If you want me (Joda Collins) to explain during paid driving time the meaning and application of the 45 most common traffic laws, the meaning and application 10 most common traffic signs, the meaning and application of the 12 general safety skill and the meaning and application of the 23 defensive driving techniques, I can do that at a cost to you of several hundred or several thousand dollars (depending on your listening skills and learning speed). Or, you can learn them for free by reading the assigned homework.
The only reason I offer this savings opportunity is for the students who could not otherwise afford driver's training. However, if you can afford driver's training but want to invest half as much for twice the learning, you can do self-study also.
Only about 10% of students avail themselves to this savings opportunity. If most students did use the workbook, I could not afford to offer it.
Those who do not avail themselves to this FREE learning often say they learn by doing and not by reading. However, they never tell any other teacher that. For example, how many times does a person have to negotiate a four-way stop without instructions on the rules for a four way stop before they learn the rules of a four-way stop. My estimate is about 10 to 20 times. How many times must a driver read the rules to four way stop before the driver knows the rules to a four way stop? My estimate is about four times at a cost of zero dollars.
When a student is learning from me in the car, I am doing is telling the student how to apply what is in the workbook, but charging by the minute to do so. Use your behind the wheel time learning how to apply what you learned by reading, not learning what is in the 266 pages of reading material.
Sometimes a student tells me they cannot do the homework because they cannot read. Please see: https://donmcminn.com/2020/01/how-to-learn-from-reading/?unapproved=47797&moderation-hash=a5a7f3da1c5b26eed090089a2727ff1b#comment-47797
Most students who cannot read, can listen to someone else read it. If you do not have some one to read it to you, let me know and I will pay my secretary to read it to you and charge you nothing. Just call or email for details.
E. Shuffle steering slows training. If you want to know the details of why shuffle steering slows training (and adds training lessons), just ask.
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2010/05/just-say-no-to-shuffle-steering/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ArlcIqmOg (Hand-over-hand steering)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/road-safety/2748533/Bad-and-unnatural-steering-practices.html
There is no such thing as a perfect steering method. Every method has positives and negatives. You must determine which positives and negatives you are willing to live with. I teach the 10 and 2 hand over hand method because I think the positives of this method outweigh the negatives. In all other forms of steering I think the negatives outweigh the positives. If you are devoted to a form of steering other than 10 and 2 hand over hand, let me know and we will honor your wishes. Just let us know. Otherwise, we teach 10/2 hand-over-hand.
FREE TRAINING (PARKING AND THREE POINT TURN)
We do not charge for parking and/or three point turn training, in whole or in part, if the following conditions are met:
1. Driver has memorized the steps for parking and three point turn, in whole or in part, well enough to quote them without hesitation or assistance and upon request before training for parking and three point turn during paid sessions. This means driver does not have memorize all the steps at one time. Memorize as much or as little as you want and we can practice what you have memorizes free of charge to you anytime you want. It only takes about 45 seconds to to a complete three point turn after steps are memorized and it only takes about two minutes to enter and exit a parking space in accord with State law once the steps are memorized. So, all I do is a two or three minutes to any existing lesson at no charge any time a driver wants to practice what he or she has memorized of the steps for parking and/or three point turn.
2. Before memorizing the steps for parking and three point turn, read the red and green print above.
3. Driver must have at least 90 General Safety Points before practicing parking and/or three point turn if using the Joda Collins Driving Acdy vehicle for parking and three point turn training.
WHAT IS SATURATION?
What follows is a cut and paste from my web site. It is generic and intended for every driver who has reached saturation. No offense is intended by this generic cut and paste. What follows are just facts; facts of life and facts of learning.
Driver appears to me to have reached saturation. Saturation is not about a learner's character, disabilities, motivation or IQ. Saturation is just something that just "is."
CATEGORY ONE
Those with excellent character, no learning disabilities, higher motivation and normal IQ along with
CATEGORY TWO
those with poor character, learning difficulties/disabilities, low motivation to learn driving skills and less than normal IQ all face saturation sooner or later.
However, those in Category Two above reach saturation sooner compared to those in Category One (above).
Saturation = driver can not learn more new things at a reasonable progressing rate/speed of learning at this time until some of the things the driver is now learning becomes habit.
I am not a psychiatrist, psychologist nor a sociologist. It is not my job to diagnose why a learner has reached saturation but only diagnose to the best of my ability when a driver has reached saturation. My job is to be the best instructor I can be and provide as much motivation as I know how to provide to the student-driver to become as safe as the student-driver can be at this time in his or her life. There is only so much room in the human mind and emotional reserve for a person to deal with the quality of new things to learn. Otherwise, we would wait unit a person is 17-years old and send them to school for one year to earn their high school diploma rather than spread the learning of new things out over a 12-year period of time.
Some of the typical signs of saturation are listed below. All 12 signs are not needed, nor am I stating that driver has more than one of the following. Saturation is just a fact. It happens to every driver sooner or later for one or more reasons. Human beings are not created to learn a ton of new things in a short period of time. We all have our limit of new things. There comes a time when the material to learn is just too much for the present time and we need time, practice and experience (applying what we are learning and have learned) to turn what we are struggling to make good habits, good habits.
Like all good habits, it takes time, work and practice to develop good habits. Saturation is not about a learners character. Those with excellent character and those with poor character all face saturation sooner or later. Saturation is just something that just "is."
Saturation is just a fact. It happens to every driver sooner or later for one or more reasons. Some of the typical signs of saturation are listed below. All 12 signs are not needed, nor am I stating that driver has more than one of the following signs (evidences) of saturation.
1. Two consecutive lessons with loss of General Safety Points or General Safety Points considerably below drivers current real ability.
2. Three lessons in a row with less than two General Safety Points average for those three lessons.
3. Driver is forgetting to do the things that he or she has remembered to do well in past lessons.
4. Driver has lost a significant amount of interest and/or motivation to do the hard work it takes to learn more things relative to driving safer.
5. Forgetting to bring General Safety Scored card with him or her to the lesson for updating said card after the lesson ends, and showing no interest in driver's General Safety Score following the lesson.
6. Lack of attention in training to directions.
7. Passive attitude about learning (kind of an oh-hum approach to learning new things).
8. Emotionally neutral (or negative) towards constructive criticism about driving in an unsafe manner.
9. Lacking the ability or desire to do simple tasks.
10. Experiencing a degree of frustration or anxiety that is excessive or unusual for the driver when asked to do simple tasks.
11. Driver appears more excited and interested in the lesson being over than excited or interested for the training lesson to begin.
12. Driver walks away from the vehicle faster after the lesson is over compared to drivers walk to the vehicle to start the lesson.
CATEGORY ONE
Driver has the ability to learn to become a safer driver at this time in his or her life but lacks the internal motivation to do the hard work it takes to learn to become a safer driver; the longer the training lasts the more challenging the task as one moves into more challenging driving environments; driver will struggle to remember and apply driving skills learned due to lack of interest and/or internal motivation; expect considerable regression. If driver finds or rekindles ample internal motivation to do the hard work it takes to become a better-skill (safer) driver in more challenging driving environments, driver will benefit greatly from continued professional driver's training. Or....
CATEGORY TWO
Or, driver has the motivation to do the hard work it takes to become a safer driver in more challenging driving environments but lacks the ability to do so at this time in his or her life; thus, driver needs time to practice what he or she has learned until some of the things he or she has learned becomes habit, thus making more room in mind and emotions for continued learning of new material. Once learning becomes habit, this driver will benefit greatly from continued professional driver's training.
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO NOW?
Saturation does NOT mean the student-driver cannot learn any more new and challenging material regarding learning to drive with more safety. It does, however, mean the progress in the future may be painfully slow and may not be worth the expenditure of time, effort and finances. However, the decision to continue in training is not mine to make. That decision belongs to others.
REAL EMAILS
Mr. Collins,
My son has had four lessons devoted to safe lane changes. He still cannot make safe lane changes in traffic. How come?
Mr. Client
Thank you for your inquiry.
The short answer to your question is that he lacks the abstract thinking that is probably related to his severe autism. What follows is an email I wrote to another Client in response to a similar question he asked.
1. Safely changing lanes in traffic.
A. Right turn lane.
B. Right deceleration lane.
C. Left turn lane.
D. Left deceleration lane.
E. Right turn lane.
F. Right deceleration lane.
G. Left turn lane.
H. Left deceleration lane.
I. Merge lane
J. Right protected lane.
K. Right to left through lane.
L. Left to right through lane.
The skill of changing lanes has not yet transferred via the abstract process in the driver's mind, thus each of the above is a new skill to the driver at this time.
This is akin to a person that learned to read by memorizing words rather than via phonics.
Example: A driver that reads by memorization of words might know that STOP is the arrangement of letters that is pronounced stop. But said person cannot pronounce nor read STEP, because the driver memorizes words, not phonetics. Said person does not sound out words, as in STEP is pronounce S as he sound ssssss, T as the sound of ta, E as the sound eh, or P as the sound puh. My older brother learned to read by memorizing words in school when they tried that form of teaching as an experiment. He died a few years ago not being able to read any word he had never memorized. In his entire life he never read a book! He could read the word "elevation" because he memorized it for a job where he needed the word for reports he had to make, but he could not read the word "elevate" because he never memorized it.
Abstract thinking is the ability to take concepts learned in one situation and transfer some or all of those concepts to a different environment or situation.
Example: When changing lanes from right though lane to left through lane I instructed driver to look in his outside left mirror and over his left shoulder before changing lanes to the left. Following this, I asked him to change lanes from left through lane to right through lane. Doing this, he looked in his left outside mirror and then over his left shoulder and then would have changed lanes to his right and crashed into a vehicle immediately on our right had I not stopped his lane change. Thus, each new environment, basically, starts the learning of proper and safe lane changes from square one. Several attempts had to be made with specific instructions to look in right outside mirror and over right shoulder when make a lane change from left lane to right lane for driver not to use left mirror or left shoulder look for right movement in changing lanes.
Example: After spending a lot of time in the past lessons teaching a lane change in residential locations from parallel parking position to through lane on his left and helping him with step by step lane changes in traffic both left and right, on the way home last session I asked him to drive applying what he has learned, and he changed lanes from through lane to right turn or declaration lane three times and from through lane to left turn lane a total of six times and never used checked for traffic conditions in his outside mirror or over his shoulder. Until he can make the connection of a safe lane change skill in different environments, I will continue teaching lane changes by memorization with each new driving environment, but it takes a long time. Eventually, the abstract thinking dawns on a student for safe lane changes, but until then explaining it with words is like trying to explain traveling using a paper road map to a young child. It is to them, like speaking in a foreign language and the child can only understand routes of travel by memorizing landmarks. Drive two blocks and two turns out of the memorized area and the child is lost.
Example: I had a driver recently (age 36). We drove from Milton to Pensacola (17 miles, about 25 minutes) to get some Hwy 90 driving skill. In Pensacola, I had him drive in a residential area about two square miles, for about 35-minutes but never on the same road. I wanted to test his abstract thinking ability. After 35-minutes of driving, I told him it was time to head back to Milton. He said, "Aren't we already in Milton. We have been driving a long time." One of his greatest challenges was to get from his home to Hwy 90. There were three routes he could take. He could drive out of his driveway to his left and make two consecutive left turns or he could drive out of his driveway and to his right and make his first right and then his first left. After 10 lessons taking both routes five times each, I told him, that without my instructions, to take us to Hwy 90. He could not do it. At that point, I told him, the only way for him to get to Highway 90 was to drive out of his driveway and drive towards the yellow sign that marked a left curve. This would be a right turn out of his driveway if he drove head on into his driveway, or a left turn out of his driveway if he backed into his driveway.
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