Welcome

1. Welcome ODEC Oregon Driver Education Center Objectives: A. Why Driver Education? B. Creating a Successful Partnership C. New Terminology D. Establish Steps for Success

2. At the end of the day. . . It’s about getting home safely!

3. The Bad News Automobile crashes are the #1 cause of death for teens in Oregon. More than 600 were involved in fatal & injury collisions in 2006.

4. Most Dangerous Times for Teen Drivers

5. Deadliest Days of the Week16 & 17 year old fatalities in 2005

6. The Good News A national study (NHTSA, 2005) completed in Oregon revealed that teens taking formal driver education are. . . • 11-21% less likely to be in a collision, • 39-57% less likely to have a traffic conviction, • 51-53% less likely to have their license suspended.

7. You’ve Made the Right Decision Teenagers taught to drive by both professionals and their parents are nearly three times less likely to be involved in serious accidents than those who do not receive professional training. -NHTSA (2007)

8. Oregon 16 year old Fatal & InjuryCrashes Down 55%

9. What Caused the Drop in Death and Injury Crashes? Oregon’s Graduated Driver’s License Program took effect in 1998. Fatal and injury crashes for 16 and 17 year have dropped dramatically ever since.

10. Good Reason for the Rules • With one teen passenger, the average new driver is TWICE as likely to be involved in a crash. • With two teen passengers, the average new driver is THREE times as likely to crash. • With three teen passengers, the average new driver is FOUR times as likely to crash.

11. Let’s put that another way… Parents: Do you want your Son/Daughter To be an driver NO? “Average”

12. then something different must occur in their learning experience

13. The Solution Good Habit Development It requires a successful Partnership between… Teacher, Student and Parents

14. Students need GUIDED PRACTICE to form good Driving Habits

15. We all know about practice- But what is GUIDED PRACTICE? Do you remember learning how to type?

16. What is Guided Practice? Let’s try it together: Using an imaginary keyboard, close your eyes and and type the word the

17. Could you do it? Could you see the keyboard in your mind? Which fingers did you use?

18. If you could “see” the keyboard in your mind, and type the letters, it’s because you learned to type through guided practice. Your teacher taught you where to place your fingers on the keyboard and where each letter was located. Then you practiced until you could successfully type anything you wanted. You built good habits!

19. Guided Practice Principles • It is provided by a Parent/Coach. • Supervised practice of specific maneuvers on a prescribed route. It supplements what the student has learned in class and the in-car sessions. • You can plan your lessons with the Oregon Parent Guide to Teen Driving • Your attitudes and values have the greatest influence upon your teen towards safe driving practices. • Parents need to provide their teen with five hours of guided practice during the driver education course.

20. “Learning”occurs when behavior is changed How do we change behavior and learn good habits?

21. K H S A Habit Development Knowledge: What to do Skill: How to do it Attitude: Desire or want to do it K+S+A = Habit Pattern of Behavior Can Be Learned or unlearned Requires Time, Energy and Commitment

22. The Learning Progression 4th - Unconsciously Competent (This is the goal! Habitually correct behavior.) 3rd - Consciously Competent (Lots of practice to reach this point, but still have more to learn.) 2nd - Consciously Incompetent (We understand the task, but are not but are not very good at it.) 1st -Unconsciously Incompetent (We have no idea how to perform a task.) Stage 4 can only be achieved through guided practice.

23. How many times must you repeat a behavior before it becomes a habit? • 8 Times = long term memory • 28 times = unconscious memory (habit) Conclusion: Students don’t drive the way they were taught because they don’t do the correct behavior enough times for it to become habitual.

24. 10 Model Driving Habits Form the Basis of the Driver Education Course • Get Driver-Vehicle Readiness • See a clear path before moving • Keep the car in balance • Use reference points • Do LOS-POT searching • Turn decisions into actions • Control the intersection • Get rear zone control • Get control with a vehicle in front • Be courteous to others

25. US Crash Pyramid Deaths 42,600 Disabled 200,000 Injuries 2,799,000 Minor Crashes Close Calls Stressful Situations High Risk Driver Behaviors Estimated 9 X 10 ²³ “Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted” - Albert Einstein

26. The statistics on the previous slide are the best reason for each of us to commit to spending as much time as necessary to teach our youngest drivers the skills and habits they need to be safe. We should feel some outrage to know that more than 42,000 Americans die on our roads each year. And we should be dismayed to know that nearly 3 million of us are injured in crashes each year.

27. Parents- Did you take Driver Education? Do you think anything has changed?

28. What color is a yield sign?

29. Don’t feel too bad. It used to be yellow It changed about 15 years ago.

30. What will your studentlearn? Vision vs. Perception Response vs. Reaction Lane Position Pull-Push Steering Technique Following Distance Reference Points Zone Control and so much more!

31. Vision vs. Perception Take the following test. Read the following sentence through once and count the number of f’s.

32. FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE- SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF- IC STUDY COMBINED WITH YEARSOF EXPERIENCE.

33. How many letter F’s did you see? 3 ? 4 ? 5 ? 6 ? More?

34. FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE- SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF- IC STUDY COMBINED WITH YEARS OF EXPERIENCE.

35. How did you do? There were 6 letter f’s in the sentence. Would you have done better if you had known you were looking for 6 of them? This illustrates the difference between vision and perception. Perception involves seeing as well as understanding what to look for and how to interpret the information we gather. Proper Perception is vital to good driving!

36. Changes That May Surprise You! • Hand Position: 3 & 9 or 4 & 8 • Braking technique: Squeeze; don’t pump • Mirror Adjustment: Enhanced Setting • Headlights On: Night and DAY! • Steering Technique: Pull/Push vs. hand over hand • Sign changes • Legal Stop position • Graduated Driver’s Licensing

37. Mirror Adjustment Enhanced method Traditional view

38. Adjusting the Side Mirrors The next slide shows the blind spot created by the traditional mirror adjustment, which involves a large overlap in what is seen in the three mirrors. Notice that the blind spot with this mirror setting is big enough to easily hide a full-sized vehicle from the view created by the side mirror.

39. TRADITIONAL SETTING RIGHT BLIND SPOT REAR MIRROR VIEW TRADITIONAL SETTING LEFT BLIND SPOT Cones outline the blind areas caused by traditional mirror settings Traditional side view mirror settings shows same view as rear view mirror RIGHT SIDE VIEW LEFT SIDE VIEW

40. Blind Spot—Glare Elimination The enhanced mirror adjustment is pictured on the following slide. While this setting doesn’t eliminate the need for over the shoulder checks, as you can see, this setting does make the side blind spot much, much smaller. All you need to do to achieve the enhanced setting is tilt the mirrors out about 12 degrees so that the side of your vehicle is not visible when you look in the mirrors.

41. The BGE enhanced side mirror settings (15 degrees to outside) minimizes right and left side mirror blind areas ENHANCED RIGHT SIDE MIRROR VIEW REAR MIRROR VIEW ENHANCED LEFT SIDE MIRROR VIEW

42. Lane Position Space management is an important aspect of driver’s education. Managing the space in our lane of traffic is particularly important. To make it easy to talk about the space within our lane, numbers are assigned to each area. These lane positions allow students to learn to effectively use each part of their lane to improve their line of sight and establish the best separation from other vehicles or obstacles.

43. 4 2 1 3 5 Lane Position Options Lane position 4 and 5: Straddling the line to avoid a problem

44. Making Lane Changes Because making lane changes is a potentially troublesome maneuver for most new drivers, we work on a procedure they can use to be sure they are making a safe movement from one lane to another. We use the acronym MSMOG to help them remember where to look and what to look for as they prepare for lane changes.

45. Lane Change Acronym Mirror-(Rear View) Signal Mirror-(Side View) Over-the-Shoulder Go

46. More Lane Change Considerations Once the students understand how to use MSMOG to be sure it’s safe to change lanes, they are taught to steer smoothly through the lane changes by referring to the lane positions.

47. Control Your Tracking Path 1 • Maintain Your Speed • Move to new lane • Cancel Signal • Evaluate Front & Rear Zone Conditions • Get Best Lane Position 3 4 2

48. Steering Techniques You were probably taught to hold the steering wheel at the 10 & 2 positions. But chances are you learned to drive on a vehicle that did not have air bags. And you probably used a hand over hand technique to steer into turns. But your students will be taught pull-push steering. They will hold the wheel at 8 & 4 or at 9 & 3, and learn to turn without crossing their hands—a safer form of steering air-bag equipped vehicles.

49. Pull/Push (Hand to Hand) Steering

50. Pull-Push Advantages • Pull-push steering gives better steering control. • The driver keeps both hands on the wheel at all times. • The left and right hands never cross to the opposite side of the wheel, minimizing risk of injury due to air bag deployment.