An Advanced Driver Education Program

1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Whitworth
Keyword(s):  
Education Program ◽  
Driver Education

scholarly journals On the road to inclusion: Evaluation of a refugee driver education program in regional Victoria, Australia

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisha Riggs ◽  
Karen Block ◽  
Taffie Mhlanga ◽  
Chritina Rush ◽  
Mollie Burley
Keyword(s):  
Education Program ◽  
Driver Education ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road

scholarly journals What, Who, and When? The Perceptions That Young Drivers and Parents Have of Driving Simulators for Use in Driver Education

Safety ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
David Rodwell ◽  
Grégoire S. Larue ◽  
Lyndel Bates ◽  
Narelle Haworth
Keyword(s):  
Education Program ◽  
Target Group ◽  
Simulator Training ◽  
Driving Simulators ◽  
Driver Education ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Young Drivers ◽  
Driving Skills ◽  
Suitable Target ◽  
Novice Driver

Driver education providers may utilise technologies such as driving simulators to augment their existing courses. Understanding the perceptions that young drivers and parents have of simulators may help to make simulator-based driver education more accepted and more likely to be effective. Young drivers and parents completed an online questionnaire that included a “simulator invention” visualisation task. Items based on the Goals for Driver Education framework investigated perceptions of the most appropriate skill type, while others examined the most suitable target group for simulator training, and timing in relation to completing a formal driver education course for simulator training to occur. Both groups perceived that simulators were most appropriate for training a combination of physical, traffic, psychological, and social driving skills with learner drivers during attendance at a novice driver education program. Young drivers and parents had similar perceptions regarding the amount that each skill type should be trained using a simulator. Understanding the perceptions of young drivers and parents, and especially those who are somewhat naïve to the use of driving simulators, may aid in the introduction and administration of simulator training and may increase the effectiveness of driver education as a crash countermeasure.

Transfer Effectiveness of a Driving Simulator

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin L. Baron ◽  
Robert C. Williges
Keyword(s):  
Education Program ◽  
Driving Simulator ◽  
Component Analysis ◽  
Automobile Driving ◽  
Driving Performance ◽  
Open Loop ◽  
Road Test ◽  
Driver Education ◽  
Driving Experience

Forty student drivers received various amounts of driving simulator and film-only pretraining to determine the transfer effectiveness of open-loop simulation using passive instructors in a driver education program. To measure the effects of previous driving experience, the simulator performance of eight licensed drivers was compared to the student drivers. Early in simulation, licensed drivers exhibited reliably better steering performance than the 6-hr. simulation pretraining students, but the reverse was true late in simulation. Six hr. of pretraining yielded significantly better transfer in terms of overall automobile driving performance on a McGlade Road Test than 3 hr. of pretraining regardless of whether the pretraining included instructional films alone or films used in conjunction with simulators. A component analysis of the first hour of driving performance revealed that the 6-hr. pretraining groups were superior to the 3-hr. group on a procedures dimension. In addition, the film-only pretraining groups were superior to the simulator groups in terms of a steering dimension during the first hour of transfer. Implications of these results are discussed in terms of improving simulators used in driver education.

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