braking and cornering techniques, which would otherwise be only seat-of-
the-pants instincts. These courses and demonstrations show how much can
be done by a knowledgeable driver, with that crucial one-second margin.
The jackrabbit start at a traffic-light intersection is a common form of
suicide; somebody is likely to be running the red light. The car wrecks Lund
collects usually feature a driver's seat that has been penetrated by the left
front window frame.

PTEC is also available on contract to companies such as B.C. Hydro,
where by the mid-1990s, 700 employees had taken either PTEC’s driving
courses or its WorkSafe Accident Investigation training, Lund hosts work-
shops and road courses on the techniques of driving emergency vehicles
in urban settings and has testified in court cases involving the drivers of
police vehicles, ambulances and fire apparatus who were involved in serious —
collisions. One of these more advanced courses offered by PTEC is Total = :
Control Driving/Emergency Vehicle Operation.

One visible measure of Lund’s success is the improvement in taxi-

drivers’ road manners you might have noticed over the past few years. wna Coor jor a passenger
PTEC’s courses urge drivers to give up that extra second to the other driv- iaea exarapie of the
er—the one running the red light. The TaxiHost program, introduced in training PTEC offers in its
1995, has trained 1,700 drivers, more than half of them graduates of the TaxiHost program. This
Level I program. nrocram is susporicd
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is about being intensely aware of your surroundings, while at the same time muricicel govesracn'
maintaining a calm and meditative state of mind. In other words, this driver ren7reswi "olives, tourism
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Stewart always tried to start a race fully drained of emotion. He explained companies.

how “[racing] taught me to drive as smoothly as I possibly could. You must
be smooth.” When Lund needed specific examples to illustrate aspects of
his safe-driving philosophy, he turned to Ross Bentley, who came as close
to anyone in Vancouver to becoming a Formula One driver. Lund shares
his author’s cover credit with Bentley on the Justice Institute’s Pacific Traffic
Education Centre Driver's Handbook.

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