With the winter season truly in full flow a lot of people will be thinking of last winter's snow and how they are going to handle it this year if the same happens again. Last year we saw heavy snow fall before and after Christmas almost bringing the country to a halt, the local authorities were caught out with the lack of salt and drivers were caught out by the lack of snow driving experience they had.
In light of this BMW are now offering Snow and Ice Driver Training Courses, the aim of the course is to get drivers into shape to handle the demands of winter. The training conditions are tailored for road conditions in the coldest of climates.
The BMW Snow Intensive Training courses are based in Solden, Austria the perfect destination for cold winter conditions, the venue itself is at the highest point of its kind. The course teaches how skilful braking and steering can be used to deal with slippery roads, including uphill and downhill routes. To help deal with the unexpected drivers are also taught how to deal with a tricky situation including emergency braking, drifting and off road driving on ice and snow.
The Snow and Ice Courses at the various locations run from January through to the end of March 2011. I think BMW Cumbria should send all its existing customers to these courses, the number of abandoned BMWs and other cars I saw there last year was phenomenal. As a nation we are not good drivers in tricky conditions and all could do with some useful training.