photo: Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic/Czech Republic Introduces an App Allowing to Test How People Would Behave in Dangerous Driving Situations
At the Mobility Education Summit in Abu Dhabi, the Czech Ministry of Transport presented Czech projects focused on driver education and testing. In particular, it introduced a new set of test questions for pupils in driving schools, an interactive application simulating dangerous situations in traffic Hazard Perception, and traffic education projects Learn to Survive and Start Driving.
"The Hazard Perception app, in particular, impressed the participants at the conference and shows that Czech traffic education projects are world-class. It allows people to try out how they would behave in dangerous situations on Czech roads. In other words, it is about the most common threats that drivers may encounter, where the aim is to try out these threats and learn how to react to them," says Stanislav Dvořák, Director of the Department of Driver Agencies at the Ministry of Transport.
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The conference also featured new questions for driver's license applicants. These are one hundred new text-based and twenty animated traffic questions for driving school tests, which the DOT is gradually deploying in sharp tests. Anyone can try them out on the noveotazky.cz website. The complete sets, including the original ones, are available on the public section of the Department for Transport's Tests app.
The Czech Republic also presented the Learning to Survive and Start Driving projects in Abu Dhabi. The former is aimed mainly at motorcyclists and to reduce the number and consequences of motorcycle accidents. To do this, it primarily uses motorcycle driver training in safe driving environments and polygons and trains driving school teachers and examiners. The project also includes the development of effective teaching aids.
The Start Driving project then focuses on training novice car drivers at the riskiest ages of 18 to 24. It was inspired by the Austrian system of second-phase driver education with possible parental involvement. This year, the project received the patronage of Transport Minister Martin Kupka and expanded to include training activities for driving school teachers and examiners.
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The Mobility Education Summit is the only event of its kind dedicated to driver education. It aims to find ways to further improve this education. The event was attended by several countries, organizations, academics, and commercial companies, not only from the European Union but from the Gulf countries.
Source: Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic