Forget what you’ve been told about the 10-and-2 driving grip.
A safer hand position on a car’s steering wheel is 9 o’clock and 3 o’clock. If your hands are too close together and your airbags deploy, your fists could fly into your face.
That’s one of the tips that 17-year-old Ooltewah High School student Scott Miles remembers from car-control school at the Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Ga.
Scott and his mother, Allie MacRae, recently attended the B.R.A.K.E.S. Teen Pro-Active Driving School together to learn emergency driving techniques from race car drivers and other expert instructors.
Mark Kennedy“Before, I was at four out of 10 in [driving] confidence,” Scott says. “Now I’m at seven or eight. I’m not cocky or overconfident, but I’m above average.”