Testing Simulators Can Reduce Distracted Driving Incidents
Since the early days of driver education courses, screen-based simulation tactics have been used. If you ask your parents or grandparents, they may reminisce about a time when they sat at a special one-person desk that was hooked to a media device in a darkened classroom. A driver appeared on the screen and started his car. Each desk was set up with the technology of the day, which allowed the students to follow along and “simulate” driving. As they pressed certain buttons in front or around them, the desk moved accordingly. If the desk shook or a screeching sound emitted from their giant headphones, they “crashed,” and the lesson was over. Of course, issues such as major component bugs and system-wide equipment malfunctions were all too common. Modern simulators are quite different—and here’s how they can help your younger driver become proficient:
What Are Modern Day Simulators?
Today, driving simulators are connected to mobile devices to ensure the best education and instructional options possible. A mobile simulator, by definition, is software or a computerized application which turns a mobile device into a virtual machine. The mobile device can be a smart phone, iPhone, tablet, or any other computerized item. A simulator is also often called an emulator.
Modern driving simulators are modular designed devices which often fit right over the eyes of the driving trainee. But they do more than simply provide a training aid to teen drivers. Certainly driving basics and even critical driving concerns are covered. But modern simulators also are perfect aids for physically impaired users. And they go beyond the simulators of yesteryear by analyzing the user’s basic driving behaviors, response to critical driving situations, and overall performance, preferences, and habits.
How Can Driving Simulators Help Avoid a Call to Your Michigan Personal Injury Attorney?
Learning to drive in Michigan is a rigorous, ongoing process designed to create responsible and experienced drivers. The lure of technology, however, is so strong that far too many people are still willing to chance their safety, and that of others, to check the cause of the blinking light on their smartphone. When 82 percent of teens between 16 and 17 own cell phones, 52 percent admit they’ve talked on the cell while driving, and 34 percent admit to texting and driving, there’s a big problem.
Teens emulate their parents. And since 77 percent of adults believe they can text safely, a false sense of security is passed on to teen drivers. Over 55 percent of young adult drivers report that it’s “easy” to text when driving. But texting teens spend 10 percent of their driving time outside legal their traffic lane. The time it takes to send one text takes your eyes off of the road for the length of an entire football field. Chances are several vehicles will enter your teen’s path in that distance, regardless of what speed is involved.
Testing simulators put new drivers right in the path of traffic to see first-hand exactly what’s at stake. Unlike the past options, kids today aren’t just looking at a screen 20-feet ahead. They’re entering the Matrix in a way. Simulation headgear puts your pride and joy in the center ring without worry of physical, mental, or legal harm when the worst happens – because it will happen. This is a learning experience that every future driver needs and deserves.
Contact your Michigan auto accident attorney if your teen becomes involved in a distracted driving incident.
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