Entrepreneur, Founder & CEO at myDRIVESCHOOL® & Road Safety Matters (NFP) - Winner 2022 Pause Award - Winner 2019 Australasian Serious Games Congress
Investment into road safety & driver training/education should be considered an investment - NOT a cost. Currently road trauma costs approximately $32Billion/year, and over 70% of fatalities are caused by 'driver error', and in the first 3 years that increases to >90%. Improvements in training/education and assessments are required (nationally) to improve the 'shocking road toll'. #roadsafetyMATTERS myDRIVESCHOOL® #simulationtraining
Calls for mandatory defensive driver training amid shocking road toll in South Australia | 7NEWS
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Craig Waters
1y
The evidence and research does not back defensive, driving as a road safety countermeasure
It is so sad to see people believing more training does not reduce the risk. Where in every other thing we do in life we get better at by doing more training. I also think a lot of people think defensive driving course are teaching you to drive faster but in reality they teach you to stop a vehicle faster by practicing and learning how your car will react. We need more focus on driver training from a earlier age as well as drivers that are more focused on the road while driving.
Steve Turner
1y
When I did my learner driver training emergency braking wasn’t even a criteria that was trained. Imagine an industrial setting and teaching them how to run heavy machinery without showing them where the emergency stop button was…
Murray Holm
1y
The essentials of driver training are working with young people around: 1. A license is a responsibility not a right 2. Driving is a community based activity not a solo experience 3. Driving is not a time based activity 4. Driving is about hazard identification 5. Every action has a myriad of consequences, social, financial, emotional. Driving is not about hours, rather about developing skills and competencies
Ben Fagan
1y
Life skill where generally the un educated...educate
Navdeep Kaur
1y
There can never be any substitute for good quality training.
Steve Motion
1y
Should be a standard part of the process, schools should also have it as part of the curriculum.
No evidence to promote this, we need lower speed limits and infrastructure that reduces the overal speed. Please stop spreading misinformation. A better alternative is to promote more sustainable transport = less driving. Public transport is the safest and more sustainble form of mobility.
Technical Consultant/ Road Safety Expert
1yDefensive driving courses are not effective at reducing crash risk for a variety of reasons. This news item states that in New Zealand young drivers can get a six-month reduction of their provisional license by taking a defensive driving course, which is correct, but research indicates that this may actually increase the crash risk of young drivers. https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago118067.html When this research was reviewed together with other crash evidence the authors recommended that the time reduction incentive be discontinued.