Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst developed a program called "Risk Awareness and Perception Training (RAPT)" to teach teen drivers.
The program was created based on an analysis of police crash reports that indicate new drivers tend to lack three basic skills necessary for avoiding crashes: hazard anticipation, attention maintenance and hazard avoidance. Hazard anticipation has to do with knowing where to look for dangers; attention maintenance with concentrating on the road ahead; and hazard avoidance with special driving techniques such as skid control.
You can visit here http://www.ecs.umass.edu/hpl and click on “younger drivers” to download the program.
For the full report, click here:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080130185654.htm
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