Spencer McDonald

Spencer McDonald is the president and founder of Thinking Driver, a driver training and development company in Surrey, B.C. Spencer’s formal education is in psychology and motivation, and has brought these fields together with road safety and education to develop attitude-based driver safety programs.

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Crossroads of life and death
Thursday, 26 January 2012 11:03

I never made a conscious decision to take up this line of work. In fact, it all happened by chance and coincidence, as many of life’s bigger decisions do: you reach a crossroads, a path opens up and you think, why not?

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Free driving lessons
Thursday, 08 December 2011 08:51

I was a passenger one day, riding with my friend Cheryl who is normally a fairly good driver. The slow car in front of us was beginning to frustrate both of us, though, because the driver was going way below the speed limit in the fast lane. Cheryl tapped the horn to encourage this slowpoke to hurry up or move over, but was rewarded with a single finger and just slightly slower progress.

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The front of the line
Wednesday, 09 November 2011 14:34

One driving attitude that can get us into trouble and stress us out is an obsession with getting around the guy in front of us. Do you really need to be at the front of the line?

Published in Training Columns

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Risks and road rage: Why driver safety is more than just skill
Thursday, 13 October 2011 10:01

When we survey drivers during our training courses, we regularly have over 90 per cent of participants rating themselves as better than average drivers, and it’s almost certainly true — at least, most of the time.

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