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AAA's Driver-ZED DVD Game Puts Teens in the Driver’s Seat

...and on the spot! This new computer program from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety combines the fun of a video game with the serious business of learning to drive. Based on risk-management techniques, it teaches teens to spot potential hazards before they get out of control and cause a crash. "ZED" stands for Zero Errors Driving, where zero errors in the game results in a perfect score of zero.

Using live video, Driver-ZED it places teen drivers in 100 actual driving situations (the equivalent of several years of driving). Driver-ZED is fun, highly interactive, and, it actually teaches teens good driving skills.
Driver-ZED is available from AAA Arizona Public Affairs for an introductory price of $20 per DVD, including tax and shipping. It is not available in AAA offices.

To purchased the Driver-ZED DVD, send check or money order for $20 to:
AAA Arizona Traffic Safety
Driver-ZED
3144 N. 7th Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85013

Teen-Driving Statistics
A new study by AAA reveals that crashes involving Arizona teen drivers are more deadly for passengers and others than for the teen drivers themselves. Over the past 10 years, 593 Arizonans have died as a result of teen-driver crashes. Of those fatalities (nationwide figures are in parentheses):

• 25.5 percent were the teen drivers themselves
• 33.9 percent were passengers riding with the teen driver
• 29.3 percent were occupants of other vehicles involved in the crash
• 10.3 percent were non-motorists — pedestrians, bicyclists, bystanders
• 1 percent were occupants of cars not directly involved in the crash

AAA Arizona hopes this study will boost efforts to improve teen-licensing legislation in Arizona, which has one of the weakest teen-driver laws in the nation. AAA supports the “graduated” approach to teen driver licensing, which places limits on nighttime driving and the number of teen passengers teen drivers can carry, then gradually introduces teens to these more complex driving scenarios as they gain experience.

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