中学是否应该引入驾驶课程？

villa

据2008年3月5日《悉尼晨锋报》报道，联邦政府将耗资$1700万元推出一个资助年轻驾车新手在家长陪同下免费学车计划。

凡是16岁以上年轻人都可以获得免费学车券，在家长坐在后座陪同下，由专业学车教练上路指导开车一小时。


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Backseat driver plan to teach parents as well


March 5, 2008  Sydeny Morning Herald

SO MANY young drivers die on our roads that the Federal Government will soon pay for L-platers to learn how to drive.

The Government has committed $17 million over four years to keys2drive, a program that gives all learner drivers a voucher for a free lesson with a professional instructor on the condition that a parent comes along for the ride.

The idea is to provide supervising drivers, who would sit in the back seat, with an hour-long lesson in teaching while learners would receive practical tips at the wheel.

"It might have been 30 years since the parent had a lesson of their own so their familiarity with road rules and the mechanics of learning to drive can be rusty," said Greg Smith, the Australian Automobile Association's research manager.

"One of the factors dictating the number of hours you're likely to get on the road is how confident your parent is to hop in the car with you."

Young drivers aged between 16 and 25 are over-represented in road deaths. They accounted for almost one-third of fatalities in 2006 while making up less than 15 per cent of the population. In NSW, novice drivers need to record 120 hours of practice in a log book before they are eligible to sit for a provisional licence. But many who advance to their P-plates lack experience in difficult conditions such as rain, busy traffic and driving at night.

Mr Smith said the often tense relationship between teens and their parents sometimes made driving lessons onerous.

"If you have a difficult relationship with your teenager and you're not confident hopping into a car with them, you're going to be less likely to do those difficult tasks," he said. "We want to impress on parents their important role and give them skills to help."

Keys2drive is the first national program to put learners, parents and instructors in a car together. And another component will be to keep them together in the virtual world, too.

The motoring organisations behind the program are setting up a website to act as a hub for all parties. The site will allow drivers to cash in their vouchers electronically, list accredited driver training centres and offer parents downloads of suggested driving routes in specific neighbourhoods, a checklist of necessary skills and a timetable for teaching these skills.

"At the moment, there's a couple of driver websites in each state and we want to tie those together," Mr Smith said. "We want the program to fit well with existing programs rather than redesign the wheel or compete with anything."

The program, which may be expanded to include additional free lessons, is due to begin this year. It complements a national trial targeting the behaviour of 28,000 P-plate drivers.


How it will work

- First national program to put learners, parents and instructors in car together.

- Free one-hour driving lesson for every young person over 16.

- Parent required to attend and learn teaching tips.

- Website will allow drivers to cash in vouchers electronically.

[ 本帖最后由 一炷香 于 2008-11-20 09:07 编辑 ]

OneLeaf

bs,bs,我才应该被赞助。家里两个L牌，政府还不赞助。

chrissieluxu

多老才不算年轻人啊? 光说超过16? 我怕等这项政策实施了,我已经老的不象样了

maribel

我严重怀疑是16-18岁之间的，呵呵否则干吗还要家长在后陪同？

pal

1小时收效不大

sakesake

一个小时能学到些什么啊，刚上去熟悉了一下就到时间了．．

神仙老虎狗

看起来好笑，难不成，还要把我们国内的6-7十岁的父母也接过来，坐在车子后座上？哈哈哈

spicypig

就是啊，到多少岁呢

一炷香

教授年轻车驾驶技巧的课程是否应该被引入中学课堂？道路安全组织，心怀激动紧张情绪的新手，家长以及学校都对这一设想表示欢迎，然而唯独政府部门对此嗤之以鼻，迟迟不肯开绿灯。人们不禁要问，政府每年花费大量资金在青少年两性和毒品教育上，却为何不能同样用在开车这么一个重要的生活技能上？




Why can't schools teach driving?

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,27574,24676920-5006009,00.html
By Maria Tsialis and Edith Bevin
November 20, 2008 12:00am


RED tape is costing young lives, with public schools finding it almost impossible to fight their way through bureaucracy to get students driving lessons in school time.
Driving instructors said they had seen positive results in teaching advanced driving skills to private school students.

But Eastern Creek Driving Training Centre, one of Sydney's largest driver training centres, said that while public schools wanted to take part, none had been able to get departmental approval to do so.

"For government schools it's too hard - they want to come and they ask us about bringing classes along but they can't get it through the system," said head driving trainer James Stewart.

Crash Prevention Australia chief executive officer John Cadogan said he could not understand why money and time was spent on sex education and drug information but not driver training.

"Driving is one of the most valuable life skills, so if we teach woodwork and physics why not include one of life's most valuable and often used skills?" he said.

"We have sex education in schools and information about drugs in schools. If you get those things wrong they can kill you. Driving falls into that category."

The Federation of Parents and Citizens said it "firmly believed" that all young people should be exposed to driver training.

"I think it's almost essential for young people to do advanced driver training and the easier and more affordable we can make it for our children to do that, the better," said president Di Gibson.

Traffic Services Branch acting Superintendent Dave Evans said changing attitudes were as important as learning advanced skills.

"We prepare the kids for working life - I think it's a great idea to provide that sort of training (driver training) at schools," he said.

Young drivers told The Daily Telegraph they were also in favour of more driver education at school.

Natalie Fares, 17, who has her P-plates, said it was tough meeting the mandatory 120 hours on top of school and extra curricula activities.

Tori Lamont, 16, will get behind the wheel for the first time today after passing her learner's test.

"I think it's a really good idea, I'd be interested in that," she said.

sqfo

其实为了间接促进汽车消费，达到救助困境中的汽车厂商的目的