Thanks Veterans: Take a Drivers Safety Course on Us

Cars have changed. So have the traffic rules, driving conditions, and the roads you travel every day. Some drivers age 50-plus have never looked back since they got their first driver's licenses, but even the most experienced benefit from brushing up on their driving skills.

What Will I Learn by Taking the Course?

You can expect to learn current rules of the road, defensive driving techniques, and how to operate your vehicle more safely in today's increasingly challenging driving environment. You'll learn adjustments to accommodate common age-related changes in vision, hearing, and reaction time.

You will learn the following:

• How to minimize the effects of dangerous blind spots
  
• How to maintain the proper following distance behind another car
  
• The safest ways to change lanes and make turns at busy intersections
  
• Proper use of safety belts, air bags, anti-lock brakes, and new technologies used in cars
  
• Ways to monitor your own and others' driving skills and capabilities
  
• The effects of medications on driving
  
• The importance of eliminating distractions, such as eating, smoking, and cell-phone use
  

After completing the course, you will have a greater appreciation of driving challenges and of how you can avoid potential collisions and injuries to yourself and others.

Locate a classroom course online. Course times, dates and locations will be listed along with a phone number to call to register for the course. Or call, toll-free, 1-888-AARP-NOW (1-888-227-7669). Register for the online course.