By skid car training I mean a post license training, especially for young/ novice drivers using a specially prepared car without a fixed rear axle, but with a construction using 360 degree rotatable wheels.
Dear Walter, this is an interesting question. Do you mean evaluation regarding the potential safety impact?
Hi Jiri, yes I am interested in evaluations of the impact of a post license skid training.
OK, I just wanted to make sure. Unfortunately generally various courses (related to driving skills) are not beneficial for safety. World-wide reknown Handbook of road safety measures (Elvik et al., 2009) comments on page 783 as follows: "Skid training appears to increase the number of accidents for drivers who have received the training. The increase is smallest for passenger car drivers and greatest for ambulance drivers. The explanation for these results is not known. However, it is possible that training that places emphasis on mastering slippery roads may give some drivers an unrealistic belief in their own ability to drive on icy roads. This may result in less careful behaviour in icy conditions." Specific estimates vary between 12% increase (accidents in icy conditions, passenger cars) and 45% (accidents in icy conditions, ambulance drivers).
Thanks Jiri. I am aware of the general scepticism towards skid training in road safety literatur, going back to the Norwegian results by Glad. But I have found a few links to local skid training in the U.S. and maybe there has been an evaluation study that I am do not know yet.
In the wider context of post license training I strongly recommend the two following papers:
Christie, Ron (2001): The effectiveness of driver training as a road safety measure: A review of the literature. Noble Park: Royal Automobile Club of Victoria
Vlakveld, Willem P.; Wren, Eddie (2013): Training drivers to have the insight to avoid emergency situations, nto the skills to overcome emergency situations. Position paper of the International Road Federation IRF, Washington, D.C. (http://www.irfnews.org/wp-content/uploads/IRF-DBET-SC-Endorsement-Driver-Training-11-07-2013.pdf)
Yes, I agree that answers are often not simple. But this is the reason why I tend to rely on Elvik et al., since their results are based on meta-analysis, i.e. synthesis of several other studies. It should be closer to truth than individual studies.
Dear Walter,
A good number of studies show that advanced training - including training towards skill control - fail to have the desired effect on safety of the graduates. You may find some useful references and explanatory concepts in my book Target Risk 3. See Section 6.2, pages 71-79. The text is a bit too long to copy it here, but it can be freely downloaded from riskhomeostasis.org. You might find something of interest there. Best wishes, Gerald Wilde ([email protected]).
Thank you Gerald, for your input and the valuable link! I am aware of your work. The background of my question my current evaluation of a training course that claims to focus on avoidance strategy regarding skidding but also includes a practical training part (coping strategy). I am curious and will have a look at the training personally.
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