Published on Nov 7, 2015
Discussion with Chris Goodsel from Road Ramblings and Total Driver managing director, Gene Corbett on what affects youth driver behaviour and how we can be proactive in creating a positive change that reduces their risk as new drivers.
A discussion that every parent with learner drivers should listen to.
Hello Gene, how are you?
Good Chris, how are you today?, Very Very well, thankyou
We are still on of course on safe driving and that is your main emphasis and we started with Total Driver last time and that was focused on younger drivers and what triggers their driving behaviour.
There are a few questions I am going to put to you and I believe you have some pretty pertinent answers.
Why are young drivers so compromised in their behaviour on the road and sometimes act so badly
Gene Corbett: "It literally comes back to what they are seeing as a driver and this is what we have failed to understand in the past.
So the way that they naturally process the threats and hazard information, is biologically what we are designed for, it is based on their natural environment, it is to walk and run.
Everything they do there, that keeps them alive, is now creating and compounding the risk. I will give you an example
walking down the footpath, and the concrete is damaged. The First thing you do is look at the footpath, it is a threat, you could get hurt
The second thing you do, is look for a way around it, so you are not going to get hurt, it is not until you are beside or in front of the threat, (broken Concrete) that you will pick your eyes up and look forward again.
The average person, only looking three to five metres ahead, at any point in time.
What you have really done is you have collapsed your peripheral vision, compromised your tunnel vision and now focusing using your close range vision.
You have a compromised window of information
When you put that same person behind the wheel of a car, that is how they process threats and hazard information. The threats on the road, be it another car, an intersection, change in direction, anything like that.
So what has happened, is we look down to each threat, but now we have introduced speed.
and our brain cannot process speed.
So what they apprehension actually does, is collapse our peripheral vision and subtract our tunnel vision.
So think of rolling your finger and your thumb, to form a circle, similiar to what you see movie directors do, in the movies.
You are now looking through a porthole, a compromised window of information, which means you have lost that big picture of what is really going on.
So if you can only see through that little porthole, means your vision is compromised, that means your decisions are compromised and that means your driving behaviour is compromised.
And we are not teaching any of our kids, any of this.
Chris Goodsel, "So these young people have received their licences as they have been fairly well controlled when they have been getting their licences, but now, once they have got their drivers licence, they suddenly become heavily over represented in accidents. Why is that the case Gene?"
Well, they are not just over represented in accidents, it is off the charts.
A 3000% increase compared to their pre-licence driving behaviour.
Five times the fatality rate and one third will crash in their first six months.
So essentially where it goes wrong is the passengers, the supervising drivers, the people that are supervising their driving are overly nervous about this situation that they are thrust into.
So they over think for the novice driver. they over act, they make all the decisions, trying to keep themselves and the learner drivers safe
The moment the young person goes for and passes their driving test. which is nothing more than a series of slow speed maneuvers and road rules in a uncontrolled environment.
That safety net is taken away from them.
We haven't taught them how to manage how quickly the driving environment evolves and how to manage this decision making process and how their brain is playing tricks on them
So as such, the risk is hiding, outside where they are actually looking.
It only takes that one thing to be introduced that they physically could not see and that is how the accident is created, as they do not have a process to manage the continuously evolving environment
To fix this, you have to go right back to the beginning. It is like having your favourite garment, where the stitching doesn't work. this means the garment won't last, it wont fit. It doesn't do what it is supposed to do
To fix it, you literally have to undo all that stitching and re do it from the beginning.
This is going to be our safe driving tip for today
Chris Goodsel: " Alright, well lets hear it" " the Safe Driving Tip is what?
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