Driver Education Software for the New Generation

The United States and Canada are experiencing an increased young driver population after years of a decreased population due to the baby boom echo. Simultaneously, enrollment in Drivers Education courses has declined. With our technological advancements as a society, we should be able to offer a high tech, more comprehensive training system for our young drivers.

Studies show that for effective and lasting crash prevention techniques to be taught both skill and motivational aspects must be addressed effectively. Therefore, educational training and behavioral change intervention is needed to produce a decrease in the amount of traffic crashes in young drivers. New drivers need to learn to handle a vehicle as well as interact with other road users. It takes several years for a driver to reach mature risk levels as the only way to reach this level is by gaining experience.

The linking of parents and community influences as well as personal involvement and incentives would likely have positive results. These results would likely be produced within each individual community through its own efforts. Interactive media could be used to enhance perceptual and decision skills. Studies show that video games can increase attentional capacity. Therefore, the integration of interactive gaming type activities could help improve these skills. Integrating this curriculum to areas of personal and social values, risk taking, self esteem, peer pressure, health protection etc. could foster an ingrained understanding of the subject matter. Pairing a deep understanding of the responsibility to other drivers with the skill needed to operate a vehicle safely is an optimal situation.

Drivers Education definitely needs to be updated. It will benefit us as a society to have skilled, confident and prepared drivers on the road. Small advancements have been made. Many states are allowing a student to take an approved CD ROM based or online course. There is also a getable Drivers Ed PC Game. Prospective drivers can practice driving online and complete practice tests with this interactive game. However, the posted reviews of this game indicate that partakers found this game non-engaging and boring. This may not be a representative sample as people who enjoy the game may be too busy playing to fill out the review!

Offering an option of time in a driving simulator would be a great motivator to get new drivers to attend Drivers Ed. Interactive computer software games that propose different situations and scores according to the drivers handling of the situation is a less expensive suggestion. Take into consideration the video gaming phenomenon and then show me a teenager that refuses to practice his video game! Video gaming can accomplish both the educational training and the behavioral change intervention.

Post baby boom echo has found an increased young driver population for the United States and Canada. This increase in new drivers is accompanied by a decline in enrollment in Drivers Education courses. We should be able to offer a high tech, more comprehensive training system for our young drivers. Driving simulators and driving video games are two promising avenues for revamping Drivers Education!

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Aspire 4520G Video Problem Resolve by a Correct Driver

I just wanna share this one. This day i encounter a Aspire 4520G has a bad resolution and with a Display of Lines colors Blue and Black and the Last one were the whole display at the LCD is broken. He said that he came to the Mall and they try to fix it but they cannot do anything to to repair it.



This screen shot is not the real one. ( I forget to take a pictures of what the status of the laptop before i fix it. ) so i make a close imitation of the trouble i encountered.





this is the problem. The picture shows the display with lines even from boot. At first we could say that the Problem was the VGA cause even at the boot it appears until at the Windows Desktop.



First,

I though the problem is the cable. Reseating the video cable didn’t make any change and even I replaced the LCD screen.



Second,

The second attempt to fix the problem was opening the Laptop and try to reinsert the VGA. But it dont make any changes for the display.



Third,

I try to have an external monitor to troubleshoot if the LCD was broken but it failed, cause even i use to hold the function + f5 it doesnt to be display at the external monitor. And for that reason i dont know what really the problem is. So i continue examining the Laptop.



and Last, i came to my conclusion that the main reason why the resolution is so very LOW because of the wrong Driver that were installed. On the other side, the VGA itself is the problem.



And just when I try to install the right driver for this Aspire 4520G it works just Fine.



click this Link to download it:

VGA_NVIDIA_7.15.11.127_Vistax86.zip

or look for the Acers Official Site for Download

http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/

Just Have fun. It might Just work for you.

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