Outline of My Third Oral Presentation

Never Ending Driver Education

This is a presentation of Road Rage and Aggressive Driving, Dr. Leon James & Dr. Diane Nahl, Prometheus Books, 2000, Pages 190-202

By Justin Golder

Instructions for this oral presentation are found at:
www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy22/g22-oral.htm

I. Graduated Licensing Approach

A. Car crashes kill more 15 to 20 year olds than any other cause.

B. 16 year old drivers are 42 percent more likely to get into a crash than a 17 year old.

C. In order to lower these statistics many states and countries have instituted a graduated licensing approach.

1) Learner’s permit

2) Intermediate or Provisional license

3) Full license

D. Parents can help take steps to reduce the number of crashes for teenage drivers.

II. Driver ZED

A. Driver ZED is an interactive CD-ROM program that focuses on teaching appropriate risk management skills.

B. Dr. Larson a consultant for driver-ZED states that there are five things that aggressive drivers believe.

1) The fastest possible traveling time is the most desirable.

2) Driving competitively is a self esteem issue.

3) Rude drivers need to be put in there place.

4) Driver’s who don’t fit the right profile are irritating and deserve to be ridiculed.

5) Driver’s who endanger or insult us need to be punished by some form of retaliation.

C. Affective driver education is needed to reduce crashes by novice drivers.

III. Life-long Driver Education

A. This creates a K-12 curriculum that formalizes, augments, and transforms the

current informal negative training into positive concepts and standards.

B. Driving behavior involves three basic aspects of personality.

1) Affective

2) Cognitive

3) Sensorimotor

C. Different stages of your educational career will focus on the three aspects of personality.

1) Kindergarten and Elementary school focus on affective driving skills.

2) Middle school focuses on cognitive driving skills.

3) High school focuses on sensorimotor driving skills.

D. Once you have gone through the graduated licensing and the K-12 driving psychology curriculum you still need continued training as adults through Quality Driving Circles or QDCs.

Helpful Links:

A link that talks a little bit about driver-Zed.

http://www.aaafoundation.org/home/index.cfm

This is the website for the international traffic medicine.

http://www.trafficmedicine.org/

This talks a little bit about the roadrageous video course.

http://www.aipsnews.com/roadrageous.html