DriveWise Safe Driving Week December 1-7, 2008
Wow!! What an amazing week we have had promoting National Safe Driving Week 2008! We had Media challenges in Victoria and Kelowna.
Victoria’s Media challenge held on December 2, started at 6:00am when we drove the DriveWise Simulator downtown to A-Channel News and Kool FM 107.3. We had Erik Thompson on the simulator in the morning from A channel and then the morning show gang from Kool 107.3jumped on in!!
The DriveWise Simulator! Amazing classroom inside!
Danny the intern was the first - in confidence, he quietly told me that he likes to speed, has a bit of road rage and of course NEVER gets into any crashes “that are his fault!” So, of course, our job as driving educators is to get Danny the intern to watch the drivers AROUND him, so he can even avoid those crashes that “were never his fault“!! Let’s face it, even crashes that are “not our fault” still cause damage not only to cars, but to us, and others too!
Here is a picture of Danny - who scored 8.5 on his on road assessment by a very “happy” Ken Levert.
Danny Hearts the Simulator!
Once Danny got through the initial “impairment” of having the drunk goggles on, he went through the program while trying to stay inbetween the lines on the road….but of course, he FAILED TO.
After the simulator, we had Robin Farrel and Brian Bailey attempt the simulator and the on road assessment. Here are some pictures of that!
Robin, Danny and Brian in the Simulator Trailer
Brian with his reading glasses on!
Ken taking Brian out for his evaluation - Ken is not impressed that Brian is on his cell!
Robin and the paparazzi! They just can't seem to leave her alone!