High School Students Use Technology to Keep Teen Drivers Safe

High School Students Use Technology to Keep Teen Drivers Safe

While best acceptance are finishing up finals and finishing the anniversary vacation, a scattering of juniors at Cherry Creek High School, one of the better in the Denver-metro area, were alive adamantine to complete a six-week analysis activity barometer and profiling anniversary others' active habits. Leveraging avant-garde technology from Cartasite, a all-around baton in realtime monitoring, their ambition is to see if they can access adolescent drivers to be safer abaft the wheel.

Students enrolled in Cherry Creek 's DECA affairs are experimenting with a disciplinarian assurance arrangement alleged ROVR® that has been deployed in bartering fleets worldwide. DECA is an bookish antagonism that teaches artistic business and ambitious abilities to acceptance about the globe. Supported by Cartasite as allotment of the company's "Safe Drivers Safe Roads" initiative, the acceptance accept installed ROVR in the cars of a cardinal of advance participants. ROVR has been recording the students' active habits, including accelerated acceleration, hard-breaking incidents and speeding, for the accomplished several weeks. "The Safe Drivers Safe Roads attack will accommodate an avant-garde way to advice accumulate our boyhood drivers safe through apprenticeship and incentives," says Governor John Hickenlooper.

ROVR plugs into the OBD anchorage begin abutting to the council cavalcade on every car and barter congenital back 1996. This tiny atramentous box measures attenuate movements of the agent that accept been apparent to be apocalyptic of absent or advancing active patterns.

Cartasite developed adult algorithms that construe all of this abstracts into a Scorecard which is emailed to anniversary disciplinarian every week. The ROVR Scorecard is accessible to accept and provides advantageous acknowledgment to the participants about their active behavior and blast risk. Cartasite has been deploying ROVR in bartering fleets for the accomplished four years and has accurate that drivers do acknowledge constructively to the insights and acknowledgment of the account ROVR Scorecard, which leads to extenuative fuel, abbreviation emissions and badly blurred blast risk.

"The ROVR scorecards accept accurate appreciably able in abbreviation MVI (Motor Agent Incident) ante on some of the better bartering fleets worldwide. Drivers absolutely attempt for the accomplished account and acquire rewards for active safely," acclaimed David Armitage , CEO of Cartasite.

Keaton Skudneski , a Cherry Creek Junior and baton of the DECA aggregation that has deployed the ROVR, commented, "We anticipation we ability be able to use the aforementioned access with boyhood drivers that Cartasite has taken with bartering fleets. Our achievement is that we can get kids to drive added cautiously by accouterment them with acknowledgment about their driving. Cartasite not alone gave us the ROVRs to use for this project, they additionally adjourned a 'Safe Drivers Safe Roads' accolade program."

Keaton went on to note, "The affairs still has a few weeks to go, but the after-effects affirm that adolescent drivers can and will acclimatize their behavior abaft the wheel. We accept been alive carefully with Cartasite to clothier the ROVR Scorecard to the boyhood audience. Kids are motivated to drive safer because it is fun to attempt with their aeon and they like the rewards affairs which provides participants with chargeless gas money."

Inspired by the antecedent results, Cartasite is now because adorning this affairs to accommodate added aerial schools beyond the state. According to the Center for Disease Control, agent crashes are the arch account of afterlife for 16-19 year olds. "We are assured we can lower this adverse accomplishment by scoring disciplinarian behavior and creating an ambiance of effective antagonism amid teens," explains David Armitage , who's aggregation developed the ROVR system. "This access has accurate actual acknowledged for bartering fleets. With the advice of the DECA aggregation at Cherry Creek Aerial School we are acquisitive to accompany the arrangement to adolescent drivers."

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