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THE BATTALION TUEDAV, OCTOBER 23, 1979 Page 3 campus where lie ire than! reform nm ut of hi singlei! torn part)- rmftiltoliie esstodoaji for it.’’ Driver’s continued from page 1 opened to the public after the first of the year, he said. He said that some of the over 700 aduates of the program have re- Xhirned home to start their own * hools. The program now offers an structor training course as well, he id. In addition, Bramlett said that due to a contract between the Saudi rabian government and the Texas n. ThecorlEngineering Extension Service, 44 bought ofs audi Arabian police officer candi- 'esidencj' ates are in their sixth week of train- , almost! ig- They are being trained in all me in thinlt? spects of law enforcement driving, anotherps ,, The course, Bramlett said, con- ists of eight basic maneuvers and a out the aim nal exercise which encompasses all il problems, he skills the driver has learned, ship, notjuj ^ The first maneuver, he said, is the Congress in (hacking turnaround. “It’s like a anging pit; pant T. They come in on the stem, leaver’s tb urn into the top, back all the way across and come back out. It’s de- ;fast though igned to teach them how much the ball;; P ace they-have to have to operate ^the car.” Washingta The maximum braking maneuver pany is next, Bramlett said. “We try to Jbreak old habits that all of us have. In a panic situation we all want to iush the brake pedal as hard as we an. People think the harder you |an push the pedal, the faster you’ll top, but that’s not true.” Next comes the offset alley exer- ise, he said. “The student has a couple of gates he has to negotiate rough. We do this both in forward and reverse.” “We’ve found in our research that [bout 35 percent of all the accidents hat a police fleet experiences are in lonfined areas, in parking lots, in driveways — tight spaces where hey’re trying to get turned around, hey get a lot of these little fender benders and scrapes that aren’t real major, but when you get a lot of them they start to add up to quite a lot of money, lost time and equip ment, and a lot of paper work and red tape,” he said. Bramlett said the fourth maneu ver the students are put through is • the slalom. “There’s a big weight transfer in the car anytime there’s some hard teering going on,” he said. “We call it ‘chassis set’ and we want them to now what effect that weight shift las on the car. It can be very devas tating in the fact that if you get all The weight on one side of the car, you compress the springs and the hock absorbers, and when you take that out the released energy wants to go somewhere. A lot of times it " has a violent reaction and throws the car in the opposite direction.” In the off-road recovery exercise, I sa ^’ W® have a big gravel berm (sill I that we run the cars off on. This is designed to let the student see what happens to the car when the coeffi cient of friction changes drastically. ” The accident simulator and an always I hazard avoidance system constitute the sixth maneuver, Bramlett said. “It’s kind of like off-road recovery in that we put them in a lane and then we block that lane using a red light. They must discern where the jgreen light is and negotiate the car under it. It’s a very quick-decision, high-speed type of maneuver. It ties in well with inter section-type of ac cidents which are usually very violent collisions,” he said. Wet weather operations provide skid training, he said. “We have a 200 by 300 foot area that has a low coefficient of friction. We flood it with water, which allows us to do a lot of skidding work. We have some cars with special valves in them which allow our instructors to control which wheels get locked i El Chico- 3109 Texas Avenue Bryan, Texas 77801 'xisi capegoatlk; est need, d. as become ion didn’t ave to inveJ embrace 1 f its lovers rat theme, t is relucts :ion that is I drops out coveiy mi) : 1980 elect Adnan Taweely, a Saudi Arabian student in the High Per formance Driver Training course at Texas A&M University, prepares to drive the course under the watchful eye of in structor Ivan Lorenz. Taweely is one of 44 Arabian police officer candidates taking the course. king at did alt' the 112 there, ras a little 1' of this d*® see some it’s more, have 64 c«* here were* v Puiye 81 ' or Bonfre , , they # ar Bonfire _ Kevin 1 up, thereby inducing certain types of skids,” he said. Next comes the handling oval, he said. “Our ultimate goal is to teach the officer that just to put his foot to the floor is not the answer to the prob lem. We want him to develop a good driving strategy. If he has a good strategy and knows what the car is capable of doing, then even if someone is in a faster car than he is he’s going to be in good shape. Very seldom does a guy get on a straigh taway and go as fast as he can. He has to do a lot of cornering, hard stopping and hard accelerating. So we give him a cornering strategy in the handling oval.” The road track is the final maneu ver, Bramlett said. “We try to simulate as much as we can a real-life driving situation. We have a lot of straightaways, hard, sharp corners and big sweep ing corners. We let the student pool everything we’ve taught him, all the principles of vehicle control. ” Bramlett said there has been only one accident in the training pro gram. “We went for about four years without having one, and then last February we had an officer roll one of our cars. In doing this type of training,” he said, “we were very fortunate that we hadn’t had one in a long time. All our cars are equipped with roll bars and special seat belts and we make all our students wear crash helmets. This officer last Feb ruary lost control of one of our off road cars on the off-road recovery exercise and flipped it. He was in it, we had an instructor in the front seat with him and two officers in the back. A couple of scratches is the worst thing they came out with, and at the same time the car was de stroyed. ” Bramlett said the training condi tions are ideal. “We want the officer to see what he’s capable of doing. If he makes a mistake out here and he loses con trol of the car, ” he said, “the conse quences are very small. He’s not going to run over a school kid, he’s not going to hit a pole or a parked car because we don’t have those things out here in the way. So it’s a good chance for him to let go and push things to the limit, and the big thing is to find out what his limit is. And then hopefully he’ll know when he’s pushing his limit after that.” When Is Your Selling IhSlIlSPl No Secret ; At All? WHEN OVER 30,000 PEOPLE READ IT IN THE BATTALION If you’ve got something to sell . . . we’ll get your mes- f—^ sage across! 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