Demonstrates with typical driving situations, the basic principles of defensive driving. Shows how a good driver must anticipate and recognize the mistakes of others, obey safety rules and drive courteously. Color 1959 Drive Defensively! Demonstrates with typical driving situations, the basic principles of defensive driving. Shows how a good driver must anticipate and recognize the mistakes of others, obey safety rules and drive courteously. In collaboration with Richard Kaywood, Ph.D., President, California Driver Education Association.
VS crowded city boulevard full of cars (Lake Shore Drive, Chicago)
Oblique angle shot cars driving on crowded boulevard
VS quick cuts zooming into cars driving, shot at oblique angles (GOOD and MENACING)
GOOD near-miss; car driving on through street brakes in time to avoid car turning in from side street
Beautiful speedometer at 20mph
DISTRACTION: Man plays with radio, car backs out of driveway, and he swerves around him.
Speedometer goes from 70mph to 55mph
Hand honking horn
Young man races another young man in convertible on freeway. Fade to black as speedometer goes to 55mph
CU hand fiddling with radio
GOADING INTO ACCIDENT: Car crashes on the side of the highway. Young man continues to try to race guy in convertible (smirking at him all the while). Cut to wheels on highway. Cut to smug man looking exasperated. He witnesses a wreck. He gets out and looks at wreck with upset expression.
Shots of wrecked car.