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The Driving Book: Everything New Drivers Need to Know but Don't Know to Ask

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As a Driving instructor, i was expecting a book on "how to drive safely," but it is an excellent considering its purpose. It has some ideas that i consider to be excelent, such as:
1)Matinance hints
2)Safety suggestions
3)Handling some tricky situations
4)Handeling the police
5)Highway emergiancies
..., i could go forever
as just as the book's title indicates, "Everything New Drivers Need to Know, But Don't Know, 'or afraid to ask."
Certified Driving Instructorare
Carol

Great book for those preparing to get behind the wheel and for those who have many miles under their belt. I would recommend as a great choice for the new driver in your home. BUT, I would not recommend you buy this for your wife if you think she is a bad driver. She will not appreciate it (even if it is a great book).
The book is divided into chapters and topics with small scenarios for each situation. Great chapter on necessities one may need in their car.

"The Driving Book" by Karen Gravelle with illustrations by Helen Flook is a book with teen drivers in mind. While the directions might be common knowledge to the driving veteran, it covers a wide variety of topics over the 161 pages of the main text. Something more is needed. You need a set of rules of the road and a drivers code of conduct. You need to cover basic aspects of residential zones, arterial zones and high-speed zones. You've got to give teenagers and teen drivers the driving knowledge they need to survive in an asphalt jungle full of untamed drivers, and you can't do that with information that is free in the local drivers guide. Having the right to offer an alternative, I suggest Highliner: The Nature, Philosophy and Science of Automobile Driving. If you have a young driver who hardly knows what's going on out there, then the Driving book is okay. The novelistic illustrations make it more interesting to read than the driver's manual. Good companion books to the Driving book are Timothy C. Smith's Crashproof Your Kids--Make Your Teen A Safer, Smarter Driver and Highliner, which delve deeper into driver's ed and being a driver's bible, in addition to good driving books that focus on driver's education to ace the driving test and drive right for teen drivers as well as driving veterans.

The Driving Book is a great starter for new drivers, in addition to Crashproof your Kids and Highliner.

The "The Driving Book: Everything New Drivers Need to Know but Don't Know to Ask" book was one of just a few choice reference sources for my safe driving CD "Mind the Road - Mind the Road: Waking Hypnosis for a Conscious Commute. The advice and recommendations from this book were an inspiration for the suggestions my audio CD gives to drivers as they start their drive to have a safe and focused drive. I would recommend this book with my audio CD to help drivers be prepared for what potentials the road may present to them.

if u lookin 4 sumting 2 read b4 gettin ur driver's license dis book iz gr8t i borrowed it from da library but after readin it i had 2 buy it i wud hav 2 call it a car drivin survival guide i am not a person who enjoy readin n get bored fast but i actually lik readin it n read da whole ting in week wit 20min readin per day not only da fact i really want 2 b ready 2 drive but da book iz written 2 b easy on da eyez n has interestin facts dat wil make u keep on readin gr8t job Karen Gravelle with illustrations by Helen Flook thanx for all of dat useful info