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...]
Security Driver Magazine 2nd Issue
May 8, 2013 by 5 Comments
The Magazine is for those who supply Secure Transportation. This issue has articles by Joe Autera - Frank Gallagher - Glen Edmonds - Larry Snow - and me (Tony Scotti). There are a total of six articles - later magazines will have more content, with more features. This is still a Beta test - any and all comments or questions are welcomed. We are opened, in fact welcome, others to write … [Read more...]
“How did you get into this business”?
May 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A question I am asked often -“How did you get into this business”? My usual answer is a sarcastic remark about me being an engineer but not being very good at it and since I can’t sing or dance I had to something. But a few months back an old friend; Robin Barratt put together a great publication “Tough Talk Magazine”. This is the connection to the original post on the Security Driver … [Read more...]
Roadside Bombs and Surveillance Detection by Joe Autera & Tony Scotti
May 3, 2013 by 2 Comments
It has been more than 20 years since the assassination of Alfred Herrhausen. The roadside bomb that killed Herrhausen was a game changer. In the late 80’s surveillance detection had become part of the protection plan but it was not given the attention needed. It was unorganized, and most of the time the surveillance detection team had no idea what it was they were trying to detect. At that time … [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...]