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Car sharing intensive driving courses
It's difficult to know how effective car sharing intensive driving courses are simply because we don't offer car sharing courses
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Certainly (from a cost point of view) a car sharing should save you a substantial amount of money
- It is much cheaper for us to teach two or three people at the same time, in the same car. With just one Driving Instructor
- Our running costs drop dramatically and we are being paid by two or even three people at the same time
- And I only have the running cost of one Driving Instructor
Are there any advantages for you, other than the obvious cost?
- It's often said that the real advantage of a car sharing course is learning by watching and then copying what you have watched
- And by watching the mistakes of another driver you won't make that same mistake yourself
For skilled drivers car sharing can be beneficial
- It's not the practicality of driving, more the complexity of certain driving situations
- Many Driving Instructors developed their driver training skills using this format
- They exchange ideas and learn how to more effectively deal with these situations
- Each driver can offer advice on how they might have dealt with the problem
- It's the shared ideas that reinforces their learning
- Ideas they then go on to use when teaching others to drive
New drivers however, rarely share this experience simply because they probably haven't experienced it yet
- At this stage it's still learning by doing
- Not by watching
So, where does this leave you?
- I'd advise you to think about what you want from the course
- If it is a cost factor and you are quite happy to spend part of your course watching rather than doing
- Then, it is definitely the course for you
But, I never learnt to swim by watching someone swimming
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 I honestly don't know if car sharing courses are a better way of learning to drive
Some driving schools say this is the most cost effective teaching method available
We've never offered car sharing courses as a cheap alternative to learning to drive
And never will
We just teach individuals
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