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As you know we have been running a set of articles in this news-letter looking at the need to develop self-assessment skills in drivers, and last week we launched our groundbreaking on-

line Self-assessment tool.

We have called this tool “Self-learning” and if you have not already seen it you can try a taster here. The full product is available in the Assessments section of our website if you are member.

As outlined in my last arti-cle the Self-learning as-sessment works by show-ing the pupil a clip that may, or may not, contain a driving error then asking the user to assess and score the clip for:

Self-assessment - A first for eDriving

Solutions

New requirements to improve safety for motorcyclists, lorry and bus drivers

Proposals to im-prove skills and safety for new motor-

cycle riders, drivers of lorries and buses and new drivers who want to

tow medium sized trail-ers have been pub-lished. by the Depart-ment for Transport (DfT) in conjunction with the Dr iv ing Standards Agency (DSA) and Driver

and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA). Read m o r e a t : http://www.dsa.gov.uk/PressRelease.asp?id=SX8BC2-A7832F16

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Road Safety Officer.

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eDriving Solutions - Weekly News

A film showing a young female driver ploughing into the back of stationary traffic because she was distracted by the antics of her passengers was fea-tured last week in The Sun Online.

The film was created as part of a young driver campaign commissioned by Road Safety for North West, which comprises Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety, Drive Safe Greater Manches-ter Casualty Reduction P a r t n e r s h i p . . . R e a d m o r e a t : http://www.roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/681.html

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Sun Online

features

road safety

film

Carjacking

warning

Motorists have been warned to be wary of a new carjacking ruse in the run-up to Christmas.

Read more at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/6538358/Carjacking-warning.html

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Speed

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The real benefit of the assessment is not whether or not they got the scores correct, what is important is that they are practicing analysing a driving situation.

This analysis breaks down into a number of simple questions:

What went wrong or right?

What could I do better in the future?

What could I learn from this situation?

In essence this is applying some simple coaching princi-ples and encouraging the pupil to practice them in a fun and interactive way. As with all our modules and as-sessments, Self-learning asks the pupil to talk to their instructor about how they could improve their self-assessment skills.

So how can you develop a pupil’s self-assessment

skills?

Self assessment skills should be about much more than

simple vehicle control and traffic integration. It should also include considering the risk of a journey linked to our own strengths and weakness.

One way you could incorporate this is to ask the pupil to view the eDriving Solutions Crash Impact module and identify all the dangers associated with that journey. For example: multiple occupants, fatigue, peer pres-sure, driving at night, etc. On the next lesson ask them for the dangers and then ask them how they felt they would cope. This case study approach is one way to encourage these skills, another would be to give them a scenario such as the one below:

You are to travel to _______ about 1 hour away with 3 friends, you are going to visit some more friends and then on to a club. You intend to re-turn that night.

You would then ask them to identify the dangers and what coping strategies they could use to reduce or remove the risk.

Instructors have a big role to play in developing self-assessment skills and we have big plans to further develop

our Self-learning module because without this skill

how will a driver develop?

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Is your Motor Insurance due for renewal?

eDriving Solutions have teamed up with MCB Insurance Consultants and arranged a special discount for

our members.

MCB will give a 5% discount on their driving tuition policies and provide their normal Legal Expenses cover (including replacement car facility) free of charge. For details please see the offers page in the business section of the instructor

site.

“funny name, clever

idea” Richard Hammond,

May 2009

Put a young driver in a newer car with better controls and additional

training and they drive more safely, but if they do crash the risks of

injury are significantly reduced.

Reduce the risks and Young Marmalade can lower the car insur-

ance premiums. Combine the cheap insurance premiums for young

drivers to a well priced car and you have the award winning Young

Marmalade Scheme.

A low-cost insurance and car package designed to: - provide cheap

car insurance for young drivers, help earn a no claims bonus; drive

a safer/newer car; all for a monthly cost lower than the monthly cost

Stop Press Due to other commitments eDriving

Solutions are unable to publish a newsletter

next week. However normal business will

resume in two weeks time.

Don’t forget you can meet us at the upcoming

ADI Conference on the Wirral (See page 3).

Thanks for your continued support.