20,000 Collisions Waiting to Happen.<br><br>That's what faces America's driving population each and every day. No wonder. An exploding population of poorly-trained, overconfident, aggressive drivers cram themselves into a barely-growing network of pavement. That's why crashes shut down parts of our metropolitan arteries almost daily. It's why bad weather always brings a spike in the number of incidents. And it's why driving remains the most dangerous thing most of us do in our lives. <br><br>The Driving Challenge was written to help reduce the odds that you'll be involved in one of those 20,000 daily collisions. It is drawn from Phil Berardelli's years of painstaking observations and research, and from his own experiences as a reformed aggressive driver. Just as in Safe Young Drivers, his acclaimed book for parents and teens, Phil provides sound advice and simple rules that can make a big difference in your safety – starting with the next time you slip behind the wheel. <br><br>You can be safer and happier on the road. All it requires is a willingness to change – to refuse to accept the status quo on the roads any longer.
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Phil Berardelli. The Driving Challenge: Dare to Be Safer and Happier on the Road
PREFACE. Why a Challenge?
INTRODUCTION. A Confession and a Disclosure
THE PROBLEM. 1. A National Plague
2. Jeckylls and Hydes
3. Going Nowhere Fast
4. Four-Speed Snake Oil
5. The Safety Myth
6. You’re (Mostly) Alone Out There
THE SOLUTION. 7. What Does the Face in the Mirror Say?
8. How to Change: Begin with the Basics
9. Just as Basic, Just as Important
10. Three Little Words
11. And Sixteen More for Good Measure
12. Getting Happy by Keeping Cool
A NEW LEAF. 13. Citizen Lightfoot
14. A Perfect World
15. The Driving Challenge
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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I wrote The Driving Challenge during the spring of 2001 and published it in the summer of that year—before, as I often say, the world changed on September 11.
Indeed, the world has changed since then—or at least large parts of it. As happened at the beginning of World War II, and again during what became known as the Cold War, we have been overtaken by history, and much of what we once thought was important has shrunk to insignificance.
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Now we need to expand our attention to a problem that’s just as serious. We need to deal with bad driving, because how we drive matters, as does how we treat one another on the highways. The consequences of driving carelessly or aggressively are and have been horrible. Bad driving is killing and injuring us at a persistently huge rate.
It’s time we focused on driving in the same way we have addressed the other highway-safety issues. And it’s time to put aside fantasies about sheet metal for a while and concentrate on what’s going on inside our vehicles—inside our heads.
