A.R.M.S.

The Automotive Risk Management System (ARMS) recognizes that motor vehicle accidents do happen.

Almost every night on the television news we are told about another motor vehicle accident.  Sometimes one person or more is killed and sometimes they are badly injured.

Some people take out life insurance, some people take out house and contents insurance but everyone takes out comprehensive motor vehicle insurance.

Many of us have experienced a serious motor vehicle accident first hand and we all know someone close to us that has been injured or killed as a result of one.

We rely on our motor car to get from one place to another and we just have to accept that every time we drive we are at risk of being involved in an accident and so is everyone who might be in the vehicle with us at the time, usually the people who matter the most to us, our families and friends.

The Automotive Risk Management System is designed to do just as the name implies, MANAGE THE RISKS OF DRIVING AN AUTOMOBILE.

This is achieved by:

• a commitment to becoming a smart driver (engage SMARTDRIVE before starting the engine)
• learning how to replace bad habits with good ones
• learning self control
• learning how to communicate with other drivers
• learning from the mistakes of others and ourselves
• gaining knowledge of what risks exist
• learning how to predict a risk scenario
• learning how to build a safety barrier around our vehicle
• periodic progress assessment and feed back
• learning how to drive to the ARMS

You will notice that advanced car control is not on the list. 

 

Learning how to brake quickly or skid around corners is not going to make you safer; in fact statistics suggest the opposite.

It is smarter not to be in a bad situation in the first place rather than expect that you will need advanced skills to be able to get out of one.

A quick one day course (crash course) of any kind is not going to change many years of bad habits.

After all if you take a crash course …… what hope have you got?

Learning the ARMS will be an ongoing commitment between you and your One to One Driver Trainer.

It should be seen as a mentoring program or a coaching program rather than a traditional course which is limited to a specific time frame.

Throughout the program you will learn how to apply the ARMS to different driving conditions and on different types of roads and in variety of different settings.

Once you have the skills listed above you will be ready to use the ARMS.

The most common reason given for being involved in an accident is that the driver did not recognize the risk situation was developing until it was too late to do anything about it.

The ARMS compensates for this lack of awareness by asking drivers to make a simple commitment that before they make a decision to proceed through any given situation on the road they will ask the following four questions:

• What is the situation?
• What should happen?
• What could happen?
• What will happen?
• Then and only then to make a conscious decision whether to proceed or not?

The question of the correct speed, road position and gear to approach the situation in will be only to obvious if the ARMS procedure is followed.