This month’s newsletter features two incredible articles. One, “Nothing Left,” is a real, on the ground account of an FBI Instructor dealing with the sights and sounds of tragedy at Shanksville and second, a detailed look at the super high tech new training center for the FDNY.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Press Release - SKIDCAR SYSTEM in China
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 14, 2011 - We would like to congratulate Kelvin So and CHINA DRAGON RACING in becoming the exclusive agents for SKIDCAR™ in China.
CEDERGRENS MEK, the manufacturer of SKIDCAR SYSTEM in Sweden, awarded the contract this week.
CDR, based at the international racing circuits at Zhuhai International Racing Circuit located in Zhuhai, China and Guangdong International Circuit located near Zhaoqing, China, have been at the forefront of motorsports competition throughout Asia. Principal and team owner Mr. Kelvin So has over a decade of experience in competition driving and in operating a multifunction business operation including racing school, racing car rentals, FIA Touring car preparation, team, driver management and driver coaching.
With roots in automobile racing, CDR has for the last several years explored expanding their training business component to target the exploding Chinese market of car sales and the obvious need for Road Safety Training for its emerging automobile drivers.
In the search for the world’s best technology, curriculum, and SKIDCAR instructor training, CDR turned to Sweden, the safest country in the world in regards to Road Safety.
With examination of critical statistics and technology used in Swedish curriculum, SKIDCAR was the choice above all others to offer a driver training tool for an inexperienced Road Safety Training market.
China has generations of experience in the human transport of goods, services and its people. However, as new economic classes are increasingly able to afford automobile based mobility, a revolution in Road Safety Training is a very real and important step to mitigate the costs of automobile related accidents, injuries and deaths to the Chinese people.
Cedergrens and their brand SKIDCAR™ and SKIDTRUCK® are the recognized leaders in practical equipment for driver training used in road safety. Kelvin So and CDR needed an efficient answer to bring road safety training to China while also enhancing their professional training operations in China’s emerging Motorsports Industry.
Kelvin So and CDR knew through their research that a multifunction approach to wide use of the SKIDCAR was necessary. Road Safety Training as a primary new business direction had to be supplemented with SKIDCAR use for other CDR business and driving school ventures. Competitive Track Events, Advanced Driving, the sport of Drifting, and Police and Emergency Response are all in the sights of CDR.
Cedergrens turned to the exclusive North American agents and world’s largest SKIDCAR distributor, SKIDCAR SYSTEM, INC. for the task of SKIDCAR Instructor training and certification. CDR needed programs to offer to a multitude of driving disciplines. Racing, Drifting, Advanced, as well as Road Safety Training programs had to be addressed and baselines for curriculum developed.
Dane and Lisa Pitarresi, owners of SKIDCAR SYSTEM, INC. have more than two decades of experience in SKIDCAR use. Dane’s knowledge in training over 1000 instructors for multiple driver training disciplines was called upon to deliver the needed information for SKIDCAR use to CDR’s experienced driver trainers and coaches.
Dane’s 39 years of automobile racing, teaching, coaching, and developing driving programs for SKIDCAR in road safety as well as advanced and racing programs, were utilized to give CDR a maximum jump start in preparing curriculum and use for the Chinese market.
SKIDCAR SYSTEM, INC – Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
CEDERGRENS MEK - Klintehamn, Sweden
CHINA DRAGON RACING - Hong Kong, China
If you have any questions about this article please contact SKIDCAR SYSTEM, INC. at 866-SKIDCAR (754-3227) or via the web by visiting www.skidcar.com
July 14, 2011 - We would like to congratulate Kelvin So and CHINA DRAGON RACING in becoming the exclusive agents for SKIDCAR™ in China.
CEDERGRENS MEK, the manufacturer of SKIDCAR SYSTEM in Sweden, awarded the contract this week.
CDR, based at the international racing circuits at Zhuhai International Racing Circuit located in Zhuhai, China and Guangdong International Circuit located near Zhaoqing, China, have been at the forefront of motorsports competition throughout Asia. Principal and team owner Mr. Kelvin So has over a decade of experience in competition driving and in operating a multifunction business operation including racing school, racing car rentals, FIA Touring car preparation, team, driver management and driver coaching.
With roots in automobile racing, CDR has for the last several years explored expanding their training business component to target the exploding Chinese market of car sales and the obvious need for Road Safety Training for its emerging automobile drivers.
In the search for the world’s best technology, curriculum, and SKIDCAR instructor training, CDR turned to Sweden, the safest country in the world in regards to Road Safety.
With examination of critical statistics and technology used in Swedish curriculum, SKIDCAR was the choice above all others to offer a driver training tool for an inexperienced Road Safety Training market.
China has generations of experience in the human transport of goods, services and its people. However, as new economic classes are increasingly able to afford automobile based mobility, a revolution in Road Safety Training is a very real and important step to mitigate the costs of automobile related accidents, injuries and deaths to the Chinese people.
Cedergrens and their brand SKIDCAR™ and SKIDTRUCK® are the recognized leaders in practical equipment for driver training used in road safety. Kelvin So and CDR needed an efficient answer to bring road safety training to China while also enhancing their professional training operations in China’s emerging Motorsports Industry.
Kelvin So and CDR knew through their research that a multifunction approach to wide use of the SKIDCAR was necessary. Road Safety Training as a primary new business direction had to be supplemented with SKIDCAR use for other CDR business and driving school ventures. Competitive Track Events, Advanced Driving, the sport of Drifting, and Police and Emergency Response are all in the sights of CDR.
Cedergrens turned to the exclusive North American agents and world’s largest SKIDCAR distributor, SKIDCAR SYSTEM, INC. for the task of SKIDCAR Instructor training and certification. CDR needed programs to offer to a multitude of driving disciplines. Racing, Drifting, Advanced, as well as Road Safety Training programs had to be addressed and baselines for curriculum developed.
Dane and Lisa Pitarresi, owners of SKIDCAR SYSTEM, INC. have more than two decades of experience in SKIDCAR use. Dane’s knowledge in training over 1000 instructors for multiple driver training disciplines was called upon to deliver the needed information for SKIDCAR use to CDR’s experienced driver trainers and coaches.
Dane’s 39 years of automobile racing, teaching, coaching, and developing driving programs for SKIDCAR in road safety as well as advanced and racing programs, were utilized to give CDR a maximum jump start in preparing curriculum and use for the Chinese market.
SKIDCAR SYSTEM, INC – Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
CEDERGRENS MEK - Klintehamn, Sweden
CHINA DRAGON RACING - Hong Kong, China
If you have any questions about this article please contact SKIDCAR SYSTEM, INC. at 866-SKIDCAR (754-3227) or via the web by visiting www.skidcar.com
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Public Safety Training News
If you missed the June issue of Public Safety Training News, check it out here:
http://www.theinteractgroup.com/newsletter.html
http://www.theinteractgroup.com/newsletter.html
Thursday, May 26, 2011
MDTP - May Events
After many months of preparation, our SKIDCAR SYSTEM SkidJeep was unveiled this month for the first official presentation of our Mobile Driver Training Program during the Fire-Rescue Med Conference in Las Vegas.
Now utilizing a 2011 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited with up to date Electronic Stability and Traction Control programs, we began our demonstration/training using the less intrusive ESC setting which disengaged traction control and limited ESC engagement until seriously inducing a front or rear wheel skid. With unwise use of the steering or throttle, the Jeep could still be spun out regardless of the ESC engagement. It was very realistic, and continued to be uncontrollable within the lane of travel when the student used the vehicle controls unwisely.
Following FRM, the SkidJeep was taken to Boulder City for an instructor training rally hosted by Nevada POOL/PACT. The Instructor class began with a Crown Vic with only ABS working. The initial training contained components of recognizing different types of skids, regaining control after mistakes made, and then avoiding them altogether. One of the components of a great SKIDCAR instructor is they must know just as much about how skids are made and skidding, as how to avoid them.
Crossing over to the Jeep, we used the ESC in two modes in 2 wheel drive. We then used 4 wheel drive without ESC. We found that ESC has become another electronic instructor as it is instantaneous in response to a dynamic problem the driver has made. Frustration abounded as there now were few burnouts, fewer out of control spins, and much anxiety brought on by the ESC intrusion into their driving mistakes. A very interesting new component to the instructor training was the exploration of how ESC works, how it is activated and how the driver can “feed” grip to the vehicle to help the ESC gain back control. At the end of the week and with final testing executed, all the instructors were driving outside the ESC system and functioning at the same lap times as a good driver would have driving a car without ESC.
At both events, we concluded that with ESC a number of positive actions were taken. The drivers learned faster as they did not have the time needed to "FEEL" what the car was doing and learn corrective action from the instructor first. ESC did this for them. This allowed us to spend more time working on “the Big Three“ components for good driving; use of sight, shuffle steering, and braking concepts used for stability. Because they were not taking the time to skid so much and then recover, what we (the Instructor Team) had to do was simply guide the driver to the right way to drive and then the ESC would not engage. Ultimately, we still arrived at the same destination with a driver who recognized Grip, and Slip, and what they did as a driver to cause the loss of stability.
Following a very short time behind the wheel we realized positive results, which in past lessons took much more time to accomplish. A savings of time extrapolates to huge savings in the funds necessary for labor, student time, and equipment cost and maintenance during training sessions.
For our component of driver training, we think the future is here.
Now utilizing a 2011 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited with up to date Electronic Stability and Traction Control programs, we began our demonstration/training using the less intrusive ESC setting which disengaged traction control and limited ESC engagement until seriously inducing a front or rear wheel skid. With unwise use of the steering or throttle, the Jeep could still be spun out regardless of the ESC engagement. It was very realistic, and continued to be uncontrollable within the lane of travel when the student used the vehicle controls unwisely.
Following FRM, the SkidJeep was taken to Boulder City for an instructor training rally hosted by Nevada POOL/PACT. The Instructor class began with a Crown Vic with only ABS working. The initial training contained components of recognizing different types of skids, regaining control after mistakes made, and then avoiding them altogether. One of the components of a great SKIDCAR instructor is they must know just as much about how skids are made and skidding, as how to avoid them.
Crossing over to the Jeep, we used the ESC in two modes in 2 wheel drive. We then used 4 wheel drive without ESC. We found that ESC has become another electronic instructor as it is instantaneous in response to a dynamic problem the driver has made. Frustration abounded as there now were few burnouts, fewer out of control spins, and much anxiety brought on by the ESC intrusion into their driving mistakes. A very interesting new component to the instructor training was the exploration of how ESC works, how it is activated and how the driver can “feed” grip to the vehicle to help the ESC gain back control. At the end of the week and with final testing executed, all the instructors were driving outside the ESC system and functioning at the same lap times as a good driver would have driving a car without ESC.
At both events, we concluded that with ESC a number of positive actions were taken. The drivers learned faster as they did not have the time needed to "FEEL" what the car was doing and learn corrective action from the instructor first. ESC did this for them. This allowed us to spend more time working on “the Big Three“ components for good driving; use of sight, shuffle steering, and braking concepts used for stability. Because they were not taking the time to skid so much and then recover, what we (the Instructor Team) had to do was simply guide the driver to the right way to drive and then the ESC would not engage. Ultimately, we still arrived at the same destination with a driver who recognized Grip, and Slip, and what they did as a driver to cause the loss of stability.
Following a very short time behind the wheel we realized positive results, which in past lessons took much more time to accomplish. A savings of time extrapolates to huge savings in the funds necessary for labor, student time, and equipment cost and maintenance during training sessions.
For our component of driver training, we think the future is here.
Friday, April 22, 2011
SKIDCAR Deliveries
Over the past few months, several new SKIDCARs have been delivered for use in driver training for a variety of personnel. We would like to welcome the below agencies/businesses to the SKIDCAR family:
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) Academy – California
Pennsylvania State Police – Pennsylvania
Luzerne County Community College Regional Public Safety Training Institute – Pennsylvania
Maxwell Driving School – Tennessee
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) Academy – California
Pennsylvania State Police – Pennsylvania
Luzerne County Community College Regional Public Safety Training Institute – Pennsylvania
Maxwell Driving School – Tennessee
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Upcoming Events - Fire-Rescue Med
Fire-Rescue Med: May 9-13, Las Vegas
We will be presenting a demonstration of our SKIDCAR SYSTEM Mobile Driver Training Program in the parking lot of The Orleans Hotel which is the host property.
The MDTP is a practical solution to small, rural, or any department which lacks the budget or space to sustain a full-time driver training program. It also offers an unprecedented opportunity to introduce your drivers to Electronic Stability Control systems, how they work, and how best to drive with instead of against them. SKIDCAR System, Inc. provides all equipment and materials necessary including use of a Type A SKIDCAR SYSTEM, vehicle, and curriculum taught by a Certified Instructor. If there is an existing driver training program in place, we are able to work with your current instructors to incorporate the SKIDCAR into your approved curriculum, or a custom program can be designed to meet your needs.
Please let us know if you will be attending FRM and would like the opportunity to experience the SKIDCAR for yourself by contacting us at info@skidcar.com.
Find out more about FRM 2011 by visiting their website at http://s36.a2zinc.net/clients/iafc/frm11/public/enter.aspx. We look forward to seeing you there!
We will be presenting a demonstration of our SKIDCAR SYSTEM Mobile Driver Training Program in the parking lot of The Orleans Hotel which is the host property.
The MDTP is a practical solution to small, rural, or any department which lacks the budget or space to sustain a full-time driver training program. It also offers an unprecedented opportunity to introduce your drivers to Electronic Stability Control systems, how they work, and how best to drive with instead of against them. SKIDCAR System, Inc. provides all equipment and materials necessary including use of a Type A SKIDCAR SYSTEM, vehicle, and curriculum taught by a Certified Instructor. If there is an existing driver training program in place, we are able to work with your current instructors to incorporate the SKIDCAR into your approved curriculum, or a custom program can be designed to meet your needs.
Please let us know if you will be attending FRM and would like the opportunity to experience the SKIDCAR for yourself by contacting us at info@skidcar.com.
Find out more about FRM 2011 by visiting their website at http://s36.a2zinc.net/clients/iafc/frm11/public/enter.aspx. We look forward to seeing you there!
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