Driving Safety Center
A driving safety center (also driving technology center or driving safety system ) is an artificially created area that is demarcated from public roads, where drivers can complete a driving safety training course. To this end, critical traffic situations can be simulated in a driving safety center. On a driver training area , however, everyday traffic situations can be trained. The operators of the driving safety centers in Germany are the ADAC with 11 driving safety centers (as of January 2014) and the state traffic police .
Purpose and equipment
The driving safety centers are equipped for theoretical and practical driver training . These places are not intended to compete with the normal driving school , but to complement it. A driving safety system includes appropriately dimensioned, straight surfaces for braking and evasive maneuvers, short mountain stretches as well as circular paths and curved elements for training cornering techniques. On the sliding surfaces made of plastic or metal, which are watered, the static friction of the tires is reduced in order to simulate driving situations at higher speeds at low speeds or to represent winter road conditions (driving on snow). The reproducibility of the situation is important in order to give the trainee an increase in experience. Braking on one-sided slippery road surface and "intercepting a vehicle" after breaking an axle using a sling plate can also be trained and round off the training options of a driving safety center. Specially designed, sufficiently large safety zones must be available for all training areas. Furthermore, speed measurement systems and radio devices are used at a large number of the training areas. Some larger and technically more complex systems also have electronically controlled sling plates that cause the car to skid for interception exercises, computer-controlled water fountains that simulate obstacles that suddenly appear, or a floodable lane in the asphalt with a water depth of 5 to 10 cm . Aquaplaning is simulated in such a section .
The driver safety training is usually carried out with your own vehicle. Special exercises are offered for motorcycles , trucks and trailers . With converted tank vehicles that also have support wheels, you can find out the tipping limit of this vehicle.
Austria
In Austria, driving technique training was only on a voluntary basis, but since 2003 it has been compulsory within a period of 3 to 9 months after acquiring the driver's license for class A or B as part of multi-phase training.
But there are also courses for the driver's license classes for trucks, which are often attended by employees of hauliers . These courses are also partially financially supported by the AUVA der ( Allgemeine Unfallversicherungsanstalt ). Drivers from emergency services, such as the fire brigade , also visit the driving technique centers to perfect their driving skills.
As the predecessors of these centers, so-called traffic training areas had existed since the 1960s, which were also operated by the two motorist clubs. However, visiting such places was restricted to a purely voluntary basis.
Germany
Since mid-2004, it has been possible for novice drivers to take part in voluntary advanced training (advanced training for novice drivers), which includes safety training at a driving technique center, to shorten the mandatory probationary period from two years to just one year.
In Germany, most of the driving safety systems are operated by ADAC . These are subject to the guidelines of the German Road Safety Council (DVR) in order to be able to guarantee a constant quality of driving safety training .
Italy
Since 2008 there has been a driving safety center in Pfatten , a place in the South Tyrolean Unterland . The safety park facility offers 160,000 m² of slopes for a wide variety of driving safety courses. A 1,000 m long go-kart track and a selective off-road course are available for leisure activities.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ An overview of training locations ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). ADAC website, accessed January 24, 2014.
- ↑ ADAC Fahrsicherheit 08/2005, p. 5.
- ↑ Homepage of the South Tyrolean Driving Safety Center