Parents can send teenagers for an instructional drive on the 'real'
Internet Highway without the high cost of gas, stress.
AUSTIN, Texas, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Teenagers can take the iPod out
for a drive so to speak, watching real life driving situations on real
roads while listening to a professional driving instructor talk about the
traffic and approaching situations.
A new website, http://www.teenlivedrive.com, allows teenagers to
download video files that play on iPods, iPhones, iTunes and in QuickTime
on desktops and laptops.
"Most schools don't teach behind the wheel anymore," says Jim Grimm,
driving instructor and coach at Reagan High School in Austin, Texas. "I
think an in-the-car instructor is best, still an in-the-car instructor
online is great, since many kids wind up tuning out a parent."
"It would take me weeks and who knows how many gallons of gas to drive
my teenagers through all the scenarios at teenlivedrive.com," says Bernice
Smith, a mother of three teenagers in St Louis, Missouri. "And it's
especially nice that I can put something educational on the iPod, a player
teenagers live on."
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that car
crashes are the leading cause of death among teens, nearly 6,000 every year
and some 300,000 injured. NHTSA promotes a graduated driver licensing
system, where young drivers satisfy staggered requirements before full
driving privileges, a system that has shown a reduction in crashes.
"I know that this video instruction is the next best thing to actually
driving with a parent," says Paul Greenway, producer of the video content.
"And I think the on the road driving at teen live drive fits nicely with a
graduated licensing program."
"All subjects in school are important but in a way I think drivers
education is most important ", says Grimm. "I mean not being able to add
can't kill you, not knowing what to do behind the wheel can be lethal."
About http://www.teenlivedrive.com.
Teen Live Drive offers real life road driving on the web and posts
links to driver test manuals in each state.
The site is produced by PWG Media, an Austin, Texas based video/digital
media Production Company.
For more information please visit http://www.teenlivedrive.com or
http://www.pwgmedia.com.
Please call 1-512-346-0009.
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