The simulator allows teens literally to sit in the driver's seat. Instead of a windshield, the driver looks at a trifold of flat-panel computer screens that provide lessons and views of the road once the simulated course begins. The driver training system is called StreetReady and is marketed by Virtual Driver Interactive, a Sacramento, Calif.-based subsidiary of the Raydon Corp. of Daytona Beach, Fla.
"I don't know when it's going to actually happen," Ellison says. "It's not an issue. We can get up to UCLA in an hour. When she's here, her friends pick her up or whatever. She just feels funny that she doesn't have her driver's license yet."
Graduated driver's licensing programs reduce, by anaverage of 11 percent, the incidence of fatal crashes of16-year-old drivers, according to a study by researchersfrom the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of PublicHealth's Center for Injury Research and Policy and theJohns Hopkins School of Medicine
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