Frequently Asked Questions

What do you provide in your program that other driving schools do not?

Thank you for asking! We provide a comprehensive number of skills and maneuvers with the purpose of providing a fully rounded, complete instructional experience for each of our students.

We take nothing for granted and therefore take great care to teach skills, maneuvers, and details that we believe are essential for anyone who is navigating the roadways of Northern Virginia and beyond.

Here are some examples of what we teach in detail:

Off-road recovery, which is when a person is driving on a two-lane road, let's say Sycolin Road in Leesburg or Georgetown Pike in Great Falls, and then for some reason--perhaps it's raining heavily or there's a large vehicle approaching in the other direction and the driver wants to give the large vehicle a wider berth--the driver wants to veer closer to the right side of the lane and suddenly finds himself caught in the gravel or even a ditch off the side of the road. 

Now he has to pull the car back up and over the ledge of the road by turning the steering wheel to the left, but the danger lies in overcorrecting and pulling his vehicle too far to the left, which places him in danger of going into the opposite lane of traffic.

So we teach this skill carefully and thoroughly so that our students are given the knowledge and experience to be able to calmly and effectively bring their own vehicle back up onto the roadway and, holding the steering wheel firmly, proceed without incident.

Another major skill we teach exclusively is our cone-maneuvers course. In this session, our students are taught how to successfully maneuver the vehicle through a cone course.

Why? 

Because they may hit a patch of ice someday. 

Or they might find themselves having to make a split-second decision to swerve out of the way of a potential hazard without losing either their self-control or their control of the vehicle. 

We also cover emergency braking--both the easy kind of emergency braking which is when you stop your car and pull up or push down the emergency brake as a backup, and the difficult kind of emergency braking which is when you're driving along at about 30 mph, and suddenly the car in front of you makes a complete halt and you need to know how to hit the brakes hard and fast. 

There are many more maneuvers and skills that we teach, and they are listed on this website under the "Lessons" tab, and this is one of the factors that sets us apart from other driver instruction schools.

Please call us if you have any questions about any of them!

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