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View Poll Results: Have you done a Advanced/Defensive Driver Training Course?
Yes, I have done a skid pan based one 22 23.40%
Yes, I have done a race track type one 33 35.11%
Yes, I have done the AAMI Skilled Driver course 6 6.38%
Yes, I have done an on-road one that had a little bit of skid pan stuff 15 15.96%
No, I have never done one, but will give an opinion anyway 35 37.23%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 94. You may not vote on this poll

 
 
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Old 14-05-2007, 06:49 PM   #10
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I seriously hope you are joking right?
I am not joking. To attain a silver class licence you drive an unmarked car around the state with no lights or sirens going, in traffic at speeds up to 140kmph. Obviously speeds like this are only reached in 100+km zones. The course includes mock pursuits, off the road, obstacles courses at Avalon, and many stops at Bakeries through out Victoria.

The scariest part is when you are driving along country dirt roads at night and the instructor is saying, go faster. To my knowledge the only accidents in these sort of conditions that have occurred involve kangaroos.
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