Safe driving
Sir, —Many road users appear deficient in their ability to adjust speed to road conditions. From reported accidents it would seem that this inability is responsible for more fatalities than anything else. Are we falling down on the job of training drivers in speed adjustment skills so essential to safe driving? Are we relying on legal speed limits too much and speed adjustment skills too little as a means of achieving safe, efficient speeds? I can think of no better way of training and testing drivers in speed adjustment than a driving simulator consisting of a driving console linked to a video windscreen. If we want to cut our road toll the place to start is driver education. Driving simulators could be invaluable for training not only for speed adjustment skills but also in that other totally neglected aspect of driver education, emotional self-control.—Yours, etc., GEOFF LEICESTER. February 15, 1988.
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