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View submission: Adults taking driver's training
I think that there should be actual training for drivers (young, old, anything in between) that actually puts them in a variety of situations where they can be challenged. I have no idea why there is not a common simulation platform for drivers. With all of the technology we have, you should be able to use a system where you can get into a driving simulator and be taken through a variety of situations and actually TRAIN to handle them.
Some situations could be "left turn on yellow", "other driver runs a stop sign", "heavy snow", etc. Rather than showing people the basics and hoping that if faced with a dangerous situation that their instincts will be good enough to save them, actually train them.
There is so much good that could come of this. You could have something that annotates or narrates as you do things, train out a variety of bad habits (such as people who ride their brakes all the time without actually slowing down). This way, rather than just being good long enough to pass a test, you are subjected to the right way to do things and it now becomes the normal behavior.
You want to take more simulations, maybe that further discounts insurance. Instead of making overwrought systems in our cars that will see for us, alert us, brake for us, swerve for us, etc. use that technology to simply raise the standard of driver skill.
My kids just went through drivers ed, and if they had to spend even 1/3 of that road time in a simulator, I think it would be extremely beneficial. We put pilots in sims, why not drivers?
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