Safety Benefits of teenSMART Driver Training.

ELK GROVE, Calif.,- When protection attention and shielding using applications fail to decrease teen crashes and store lives, supply ADEPT Driver® a call. Today ADEPT launched the find out about Safety Benefits of teenSMART Driver Training. This learn about was once performed with the aid of Dunlap and Associates, Inc., a lookup and consulting company that carried out the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration-sponsored comparison of the protection advantages of the Risk Awareness and Perception Training application for beginner teen drivers (RAPT study) in California in 2016.  For the teenSMART study, motor car files for extra than 5,000 teenSMART graduates have been in contrast to the manipulate team used in the RAPT study.

 

"The new Dunlap find out about indicates that teenSMART graduates had an common of 28% and up to a 49% discount in crashes over the manipulate group," stated Dr. Richard Harkness, CEO of ADEPT Driver. "Based on the tragically excessive teen driver crash rates, we recognize younger drivers want positive crash-reduction training. We invented teenSMART to tackle this need, and are happy that this learn about is constant with more than one different research that record teenSMART's effectiveness at lowering teen driver crashes."

The Dunlap find out about additionally discovered that the teenSMART team had 54% to 67% fewer visitors violations one yr after training. This was once statistically large and every other challenging records indicator that ADEPT's crash-reduction education accelerated teen secure riding behaviors in the back of the wheel. In addition, the learn about notes that top rate rate reductions allowed with the aid of kingdom insurance plan boards in forty nine states for completion of teenSMART additionally recommend the insurance plan carriers are imparting comparable actuarial proof to aid the effectiveness of the program.

The learn about suggests that to minimize teen driver crash rates, tested crash-reduction education like teenSMART should be built-in into current graduated driver license programs, and may want to be superb as section of Phase two Driver Education after a younger driver has acquired a first license for unsupervised driving.

"Our applications are the science-based choice to protection recognition and standard protection packages that furnish simple know-how of driver protection to the public," stated Dr. Harkness.  "However, there is little or no proof that awareness, site visitors quotation or protecting riding applications minimize crash frequency or severity or retailer lives. This must no longer come as a shock as these guides do now not deal with the underlying reasons of the crashes, or measurably enhance crucial competencies wished to keep away from a crash - most notably, visible awareness, hazard detection and hazard perception. Insurance corporations recognize this and are leaving behind the consciousness packages in prefer of ones that exhibit statistically extensive enchancment in teen driver crash avoidance abilities and behaviors the use of difficult data."

ADEPT shared the findings of the Safety Benefits of teenSMART Driver Training find out about for the duration of National Teen Driver Safety Week (October 18-24, 2020), to inspire households with teen drivers to increase mandated "rules-of-the-road" coaching with confirmed crash-reduction coaching to make certain younger drivers have the imperative abilities to continue to be protected when in the back of the wheel.