The Conscious Driver: How to Conquer Driving While Distracted

By Mark Haberstroh

The Conscious Driver provides you with something of great practical value for life. Learn how to overcome distractions while driving your vehicle and enjoy the experience without the stress that invariably accompanies this daily activity. Become a more conscious and skilled driver who possesses the ability to avoid the myriad dangers on the road. Feel the satisfaction as you bring a relaxed and proactive set of skills to the traffic chaos of the driving day. It always feels better when you know what you are doing and that you are doing it well. You might just save a life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Nov 12, 2018
• ISBN: 9781543953077

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©2018 Mark R. Haberstroh

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ISBN 978-1-54395-306-0 eBook 978-1-54395-307-7

Dedicated to those who search for a solution to Driving While Distracted and those who have had to endure its consequences.

Observe your mind. Think about how you think.

Contents

Introduction

The Issue

Things to Consider

The Essential Driver

Automatic Pilot

Distraction –The Definition

Cell Phones

Accident Formation

Reducing Stress

Exercises to Develop Mental Driving Skills

Conclusion

Introduction

Although external applications designed to resolve the Distracted While Driving phenomenon such as new regulations, fines, seminars, pending legislation are rightly placed; they are reactive. They do not specifically address the causes of distractions, which are in every case cognitive. The technological revolution that has occurred over the past seven or eight decades has had a profound effect on training people’s minds to the detriment of safe driving. This book endeavors to re-establish the ability to train the mind by shedding light on the internal side of this issue and the necessity of first becoming a highly Conscious Driver. With the rollout of new vehicles every year, the addictive lure of technology becomes ever more distractive. In addition to this, increasingly luxurious interiors tend to lull one into a false sense of security and safety. Speed becomes ever more comfortable. People are not formally educated to accurately comprehend the powerful physical forces at work when