Location

Grounds

Entrance Gate

Kings Canyon Entrance

Time

Sep 11 2010 - 8:00am - Sep 12 2010 - 4:00pm

Event Details

Your Teen Can Become a Safer, Smarter Driver!

Street Survival is a unique hands-on driving experience that puts each student behind the wheel of his or her own car with a trained coach one on one, all day. The goals of the Street Survival program are to teach students some of the basics of car control, to enhance their enjoyment of driving and to improve their competence as drivers. We want the students to understand how their actions govern a car's responses, and as a result to become safer, more effective drivers on the road.

During the event, students will maneuver their cars through exercises laid out using orange traffic safety cones in a closed parking lot. Each element will teach the students a specific skill or group of skills and they will experience each exercise element several times in order to learn from their mistakes. A trained driving coach will accompany each student to provide real-time feedback while performing maneuvers. Students will experience emergency driving situations in a controlled environment including skid control, ABS braking, accident avoidance, and emergency lane changes among many other good driving skills and habits.

Students will learn how to properly use their own cars based on the physics of car control. They will learn how their cars feel and sound just before and as they exceed the limits of tire adhesion in a controlled situation, helping them to avoid accidents in actual everyday driving situations. The exercise elements are laid out in advance and are designed to be fun, safe, challenging and educational.

There is no stopwatch, nor head-to-head competition with other cars. The students are here to improve their skills, not to compare themselves with someone else. Safety is our prime concern.
Fresno School Information:
Date: Sat, September 11th, 2010
Time: 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM
Location: Fresno Fairgrounds
Cost: $75 (includes lunch and membership in the BMW Car Club of America)

For further details, student driver requirements and videos, please visit the Street Survival web site at www.streetsurvival.org.
This school is staffed by volunteers from the Central California Chapter of the BMW Car Club of America.
Please note: Due to the differences in vehicle dynamics, SUVs and other High Center of Gravity vehicles are not able to participate in this school
Central California Chapter
BMW Car Club of America
www.cccbmwcca.org

Registration is open for the Tire Rack Street Survival to be held on Saturday, September 11th, 2010 at the Fresno Fairgrounds.
Visit www.StreetSurvival.org and register today.
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