In the late 80’s and early 90’s South America in general and Colombia in particular was not someplace you took the wife and kids for a vacation, and the Middle East was its usual pit of a place. Other than soccer Vehicle Attacks were the national pastime. The old Scotti School (like the present day Tony Scotti’s Vehicle Dynamics Institute) was roaming around those locations conducting … [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...]
A Disturbing Trend
March 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
During a recent training program there was a student in attendance that I had trained 20 years in the past. He is still employed by the same pharmaceutical company; they have been sending their EP personal to us for more than 20 years. In that same class was a kid (He did not like me calling him “the kid”) - who over the past 30 years I have been working with his Dad. Also attending … [Read more...]