Driver education

Besides safety-belt regulations, accident rates are influenced by speed-limit standards, drivers education levels, technical vehicle checks and regulations on driving with lights by day. Propulsion technologies are not relevant in this case and thus the switch from traditional combustion engines to alternative fuel-powered motors will not influence accident rates. Sure, the question can be raised that quieter electric vehicles could increase the risk of accidents because vehicles can not be heard as quickly. But up to now there is no evidence for this assumption and thus the thesis is rejected in the subsequent elaborations. 

Road accident control programmes involving traffic management, street lighting, driver education, random breath tests and other measures ... 

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Your alcohol and drug program starts with your company policy and driver education. Each of these is addressed in Subpart F — Alcohol Misuse and Controlled Substances Use Information, Training, and Referral. 

Driver education and training (Sec. 382.601) All drivers will be given information regarding the requirements of Part 382 and this policy by their supervisor. All drivers... 

Well-trained drivers drive more safely than those with httle or no training. Many states require high school smdents or those getting old enough to drive to take a driver education course before issuing a license. The value of high school... 

Kline has experience as an adjunct professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a research associate and lecturer at Texas A M University, an adjunct professor at Central Washington University, a regional traffic safety specialist in Washington State, a graduate assistant at Central Missouri State University, and a high school driver education instructor in Pennsylvania. He has lectured on driver... 

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There can be no question that we are dealing here with a rather consistent phenomenon. Some jurisdictions, with a graduated licensing procedure in place, offer novice drivers a reduction in time required to earn a full licence, on the condition that they take a driver education course. This has led to considerably higher accident involvement, by as much as 27% and 45%, among learner drivers who accepted the... 

Lund, A.K., Williams, A.F., and Zador, P. 1986. High school driver education Further evaluation of the DeKalb County study. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 18, 349-357. 

MacNeil, S. 2007. Driver education, training and licensing. Chapter 11, In R.E. Dewar and P.L. Olson (eds.). Human Factors in Trt c Safety. Second Edition. Tucson, Arizona Lawyers and Judges Publishing Company, pp. 231-266. 

Mayhew, D.R. 2007. Driver education and graduated licensing in North America Past, present, and future. Journal of Safety Research, 38, 229-237. 

Glad, A. 1988. Ease 21 foreropplaringen effeckt pa ulykkes risikoen (Phase 2 driver education effect on the risk of accidents). Rapport 0015. Oslo, Norway Transportokonomisk Institutt (English translation). 

Mynttinen, S., Gatscha, M., Koivukoski, M., Hakuli, K., and Keskinen, K. 2010. Two-phase driver education models applied in Finland and in Austria—Do we have evidence to support the two phase models Transportation Research Part F, 13, 63-70. 

Senserrick, T., Ivers, R., Boufous, S., Chen, H.-Y., Stevenson, M., and Norton, R. 2009. Young driver education programs that buUd resilience have potential to reduce road crashes. Pediatrics, 124, 1287-1292. 

In passing, it may be noticed that the reduction in crash rate was considerably greater than the reduction in the number of young drivers who obtained high-school driver education. Once again, one wonders if this type of education lulls its graduates into an illusion of safety and thus leads them to behave less cautiously (see Section 5.3 in Chapter 5). 

Robertson, S. 1980. Crash involvement of teen-aged drivers when driver education is eliminated from high school. American Jourrud of Public Health, 70, 599-603. 

On the driver capabilities side of the equation. Fuller notes that our long-term capabilities are based on the competence that we bring to the driving situation. This, in turn, is based on our experience, driver education, and training, which are discussed in detail in Chapter 6. Beyond these human factors, the model also acknowledges the driver s constitutional features . These include various personality attributes, attitudes, and cognitive style that are discussed in... 

The actual education and training that drivers receive varies immensely from one jurisdiction to another from no formal education in some places to highly structured education in others. In a review of the driver education and training that was required in 26 different countries (mostly western European countries), Groot et aL (2001) identified six different models of driver education and training. Ranging from the most formal and structured to the least structured, they are ... 

To resolve the issue and provide a better evaluation of driver education, in 1978 the NHTSA initiated the most comprehensive experimental study to date of driver education. The three-year study became known as the DeKalb County Study after the Atlanta, Georgia suburb in which it was done. The study is briefly described below, and more information about it can be found in the original report by Stock and his associates (1983) as well as in more recent comprehensive reviews of driver education (Engstrom et al, 2003 Mayhew and Simpson,... 

Pre-Driver Licensing (PDL). This was a bare-bone minimalist version of driver education and it consisted of a total of 20 hours that included classroom, simulator, closed road training, and open road training accompanied by parents. It was designed to provide the student with the minimal skills and knowledge needed to pass the driving test. 

Graduated Driver Licensing (gdl) Integrating Driver Education, Training And Licensing... 

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