By Joe Autera - Larry Side - Tony Scotti A while back we wrote a small article titled “You Can’t Be Average”; the article got a great deal of response, and one of the most asked questions was - OK, when talking about driving and Escaping The Kill Zone, (ETKZ) if not “Average” then “What is good”. To answer the question we go to the data VDI collects to test their vehicles … [Read more...]
You Can’t Be Average
April 29, 2013 by 8 Comments
We (VDI) do a lot of research on driving - training - anything that will help us be better at what we do. While conducting the research we notice the word we see most often is “Average”. As an example the “average” driver needs 2.5 seconds to react to a problem. The “average” driver can use only 50 % of the vehicles cornering capability The “average” driver will use x … [Read more...]
A Change for SecurityDriver.Com
December 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
SecurityDriver.Com (SD.C) is one of the oldest web sites in the security industry. For close to 20 years SD.C has been a source of information to the protective services industry. Soon we will be changing the SD.C format, and in a short while we will be introducing a new industry association accompanied by a new web site, more on that later. Many of the articles on SD.C will be removed, but for … [Read more...]
The 85% Rule Part Two
December 5, 2012 by 1 Comment
In the LinkedIn Group Executive Protection Network a member responded to our article “The 85% Rule” with a question - Why do the numbers from 85% to 50%? - Our Response was that the variance is due to definition of in and around a vehicle, and the time frame used to gather data. The numbers - From the book “Just 2 Seconds” by De Becker, Taylor and Marquart, their data shows that 43% of … [Read more...]
The 85% Rule
This is a phrase you see often in books - magazine articles – on power points presentations - “85 % of all attacks against the principal happen in or near a vehicle” - the number may vary, but never lower than 50%. So how much of your time and training is spent planning to protect the executive while in a vehicle? And what skills do you need to accomplish that goal? The question becomes … [Read more...]