Glenn M
Scott from Awesome Driving School on the Central Coast really IS an awesome driving instructor. He's safe, knowledgeable, friendly, considerate, calm and articulate, and he tailors his instruction to the specific needs of his student. I rode along for my daughter's lesson, today, and I can't overstate how impressed I was.
A few examples come to mind:
1. Rather than firing instructions at my daughter, he asked questions throughout, which forced her to assess each situation herself, and make considered decisions each time, based on understanding, not obedience / blind faith.
2. He then strategically sought out the same sort of situation again, so she could apply what she had just learned.
3. He raised points I'd never thought to mention to her.
4. He was able to clearly describe situations and appropriate actions, even in relatively high-stress situations. For example, at a busy, two-lane roundabout (Central Coast Highway / Wyong Road), he was able to calmy help my daughter identify, for herself, when she should enter the roundabout. He didn't just identify the gap for her or tell her to give way to the right, but instead got her thinking about where cars were actually coming from, when it seemed they would exit the roundabout, and what this meant in terms of when she could go. I do all this stuff myself, when I drive, but it's very hard to communicate it effectively in the middle of a situation like that.
5. He answered all my questions (and there were a few!) without skipping a beat or compromising the lesson.
I'm a very experienced, thoughtful and safe driver, with 34 years' driving experience, and a couple of years' experience supervising my kids on their L's and P's. I remain very calm when teaching my kids to drive; I enjoy it. But still, Scott offered a lot of additional value, over and above what I bring to the table.
I'll definitely be booking more driving lessons with him for my daughter, and will only go to him when my youngest gets