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In this report, I have created and designed five driving cartoons. The ideas for these cartoons were attained from past generations' self-witnessing reports. For each cartoon, I describe the significance of it and provide a link to the page I got the idea from and a link to the cartoon. Then I discuss how effective cartoons are for teaching driving behavior. Recommendations for future generations are also provided.
Ideas of how to establish a Web database and what types of software and procedures would be needed is pondered and discussed. There is also a discussion about children and driver's education manuals. How and what types of cartoons are useful in educating children? Can cartoons be incorporated into driver's education manuals? If so, how? Would it work? All of these ideas are thought about and discussed.
First off, cartoons are universally known to be humorous; whether for entertainment or to get a serious idea across. They are an effective way of communicating driving skills. They work by catching people's attention through visual stimuli, not requiring extensive knowledge, making people laugh or smile, and causing the realization of faults many people have.
Cartoons are colorful images which call attention to themselves. Bright colors scream to be looked at, and even if the cartoon is in black and white, the alluring images turn people's heads. The exotic, awkward, cute, or comic pictures, are what call people's attention to cartoons.
Cartoons are effective because extensive knowledge is not required to look at it. All that is needed, is looking at the picture and reading a caption or two if any at all. Thus, many more people will look at driving cartoons then read extensive papers on driving. This does not mean that they will understand what the cartoons are saying, but at least it gets people to look at them, which is the first step. I am sure that at least some of the people who look at the picture will get something out of it besides the pleasure of looking at a nice picture.
Driving cartoons also work by means of humor, they make people laugh and/or smile. The pictures, captions, or both can produce laughter and smiles. The pictures work through humorous scenarios. They portray human faults, which are inevitable, as funny. Driving cartoons are parodies of the average driver. This makes people laugh and/or smile.
Laughing at a cartoon causes the realization of one's own faults. The laughter and smiling may aid in causing the realization by putting one in a good mood. Being happy may allow one to be open-minded and accept faults in the way one feels, thinks, and acts. There is a process which brings about the realization of faults through the means of driving cartoons: One laughs at a cartoon, realizes the mistakes or faults of the person in the cartoon, thinks about it, and then realizes that the faults of the cartoon character are their faults as well.
Driving cartoons can make a difference. The reason they work is because of their visual stimuli, the lack of knowledge required to look at one, the way they make people laugh and smile, and by causing the realization of one's own faults. Knowing how driving cartoons work and how they can affect people, it should be taken into consideration how this knowledge can be put to good use (e.g. creating cartoons especially for children and drivers' education manuals).
. Back To The TopA web database for driving cartoons? Why not!!? First, a place where people can leave their driving cartoon creations is needed. Then a drawing program is needed. This database could be used for future traffic psychology students or anyone who wanted to create a driving cartoon to aid in the education of traffic psychology.
To find a place to leave driving cartoons is easy. All one has to do is create an interactive page where people can leave their name, drawing, and whatever else they please. Then, they can send it to either the person running the database or a program. Either the person or program will format the information and add it to the database. It then becomes available for the whole world to see. Now what about using these wonderful cartoons?
Well, the images should be left on a database with access to a program for creating cartoons. The program would be like a drawing program where you can move, change, and manipulate icons. The program would allow one to use many images at once, so one can create a cartoon.
The creation of a cartoon should be easy. It should allow one to move icons over one another. The program should also allow one to recreate an image to one's own preference (e.g. change the color of an icon or erase parts of the icon). Manipulation is also handy, if one could alter the position of an arm on an icon, the final cartoons would be so much more personalized then if fixed icons had to be used.
I know this all sounds outrageous and undoable, but look at how far the world has gotten so far! Why not work our minds and advance technology a little more? Let's create a database for creating driving cartoons and the software it would need. At least this is going to better our world and our current driving situation. It will be done to educate our children and our current drivers. It will aid to create a change in bad driving.
Back To The TopDriving cartoons are not just for psychology students who have to look at this page and people who blindly got here. Driving cartoons work and should be put to use to educate everyone, which include children and people learning how to drive.
Children will one day be drivers. Thus, they should be educated properly in driving. Of course they should not actual be at the wheel of a car, but they should be taught what is good and what is bad driving. They should be educated on how to recognize these types of behaviors and they should know which behavior is expected of them.
The way I propose children be taught good driving behaviors, is through being made able to recognize bad and good and bad driving habits through cartoons, which will make them more susceptible to becoming a good driver. This should be done by educating teachers on driving, finding out what stage in development each age group is at, and creating appropriate driving cartoons and teaching methods. Then the teachers should be informed how to go about teaching the children in the most effective way.
Once all the research and testing is done, I think cartoons will be very useful in educating children.
Driving cartoons can be incorporated into drivers' education manuals by placing them throughout the text. They will help to create more drivers who are conscious of their feelings, thoughts, and actions and who will be able to create changes within themselves. The reason they will be useful is because they are not just more text that people have to read, the driving cartoons are mostly images which are less time consuming and straining. Perhaps people using the manuals will look at the cartoons as a time out from studying. It can help loosen the mind when one is studying. Thus, creating a pathway for extra learning subconsciously (i.e. at least at first) through driving cartoons.
Driving cartoons are effective in many ways and for many things. They are effective through visual stimuli, humor, and making people aware of their driving faults. They are also useful teaching aids. Driving cartoons aid in teaching children and adults proper driving behaviors and skills. If people realize that driving cartoons significantly influence people, perhaps they will become a more common teaching tool. It is certain that the world needs to be re-taught how to drive; both the act of driving and the attitudes about driving.
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