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...]
Mission Oriented Driving Skills (MODS) – Driving INTO The Kill Zone
May 4, 2013 by 1 Comment
During the coverage of the Marathon Bombings, the National and International media flooded the airways and print with video’s and pictures of tactical vehicles doing what they are designed to do - drive INTO the kill zone. This is a scenario the security community may find unusual. But there are SWAT Teams all over the world whose job requires them on a regular basis to drive into the kill zone. … [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 collection of lessons learned from vehicle attacks
March 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This is a collection of articles that appear on Security Driver - I have put them all in one place for easy viewing Lessons learned from the attack on US Embassy personnel in Mexico by Joe Autera - Larry Side - Tony Scotti Originally posted November 20, 2012 - A unique lessons learned from an incident where all survived. http://securitydriver.com/11/lessons-learned/ Lessons … [Read more...]