Guidelines for evaluating driver education now available

2006 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Driver Education

Driver Education Curriculum Outline

1998 ◽  
Vol 42 (20) ◽  
pp. 1396-1400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence P. Lonero ◽  
Kathryn M. Clinton ◽  
Douglas M. Black
Keyword(s):  
Program Development ◽  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Traditional Education ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Driver Education ◽  
Novice Drivers ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
Education Model ◽  
Crash Reduction

The purpose of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety outline project was to initiate program development which could lead to “reinventing” a more intensive, comprehensive, and effective driver education system, which could lead to crash reduction in novice drivers. The project reviewed knowledge in a number of areas — driver education effectiveness, novice drivers' needs, and methods of instruction and behavioral influence. The traditional education model used for driver education is inadequate, and fundamental changes in content, methods, and organization are needed. New developments and synergies among education methods, training technologies, organizational change, and demand for quality promise a new and more effective role for driver education in the 21st Century.

Evaluation of Pc-Based Younger Driver Training Program: Use of a Driving Simulator

1998 ◽  
Vol 42 (20) ◽  
pp. 1403-1407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald L. Fisher ◽  
Robert Glaser ◽  
Nancy E. Laurie ◽  
Alexander Pollatsek ◽  
John F. Brock
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Driving Simulator ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
Driver Education ◽  
Driver Training ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Trained Subjects ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
Pedestrian Crossing ◽  
The University

Younger adults are overinvolved in accidents. Model high school driver education programs were developed in the 1970s in an attempt to reduce this overinvolvement. An evaluation of these programs suggested that they were largely ineffective. Recently, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has developed the first PC-based driver education program (Zero Errors Driving or Driver ZED) using real footage of risky scenarios. The hope is that younger drivers seeing these scenarios will learn to recognize risky situations in the real world before they develop. In an attempt to evaluate the Driver ZED program, the performance of 20 younger drivers is being tested on the University of Massachusetts' driving simulator. Ten of these drivers have been trained with ZED (the trained group) and ten have not seen the program (the untrained group). All 20 drivers must navigate a total of 24 scenarios that have been programmed on the driving simulator. Measures of driving performance were developed which can be used to discriminate between risky and nonrisky drivers. A preliminary evaluation of the performance of the trained and untrained subjects indicates that the trained subjects are performing more cautiously than the untrained subjects in some, but not all, scenarios (e.g., the trained subjects brake sooner when approaching a pedestrian crossing).

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