Show Driver Education Inadequate A Liberty Mutual Insurance Company vice president said Tuesday that high school driver education must be made more relevant to real-life driving situations that result in the death of more than young people each At the same time he announced that his firm is launching a major campaign to lead the which began in this country in the has simply not kept pace with the kind of driving decisions needed in almost every mile driven said Roger H. manager of the firm's loss prevention Speaking at the National Press pointed out that driver education training simply can not do the job as it is now HE NOTED that the current required six hours of training behind the wheel is not sufficient the young particularly to develop emergency driving Too he the youthful driver's first experience with an emergency situation is the real for too many it is also the last as shown by the fact that young drivers have the highest percentage of automobile fatalities of any age THE answer for driver could be the use of multi-phase training noted He further suggested that they be patterned after a Liberty Mutual planned which could serve as a LIBERTY'S program will consist of three distinct driver education These will be a permanent driver training facility at the firm's Research an expansion of the company's Skid Control and Decision Driving programs and the addition of an emergency driving can talk about emergency situations and what to You can stimulate these situations on film but there is no replacement for the real said AND THIS is what Liberty's program will Students will learn how to handle practically every type of emergency situation by simply doing it over and over again until they can maintain While learning they will also learn the best means to avoid the situation in the first should an emergency situation added student's chance of survival will be greatly THE PROGRAM also allows for situations where it would be impractical or dangerous to conduct emergency Lib- L erty's Decision Driving which teaches drivers to anticipate accident producing could be at Liberty feel this program is a good part of the answer to making driver education more said DO not pretend to be the originators of emergency driving but we may be the first to demonstrate how high schools throughout the country can and should develop their own emergency driving Wingate noted that film and written material on the multi-phased program will be available for interested school Mutual is going to do its We want others go get school the and most of tin driving training is the direction in which driver education should go in the It's going to take a good deal of concern and involvement from many but it must be if we are ever to turn the grim statistics |