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'Skid Monster' teaches safe driving
By Dan Campana
Daily Chronicle
June 13, 2000
DeKALB - What has
two yellow wheels and whips you around like a carnival
ride?
A new safe
driving tool coming to Northern Illinois University, that's
what.
The Skid Monster
and its inventor, Fred Mottola, came to DeKalb on Monday for a
demonstration of the latest tool in driving
safety.
At first look,
the yellow wheels look like training wheels, but they help provide a
visual example of how even the slightest increase in speed can lead to a
"monster" of a problem. [more...]
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Skid Monster could keep more teens safe on
road
By Suzanne Barrett
The
Herald, Sunday, April 4,
1999
When it comes
to teaching young people how to drive safely, parents and instructors have
to get creative. A few leaders in the state-including the Edmonds and
Marysville School Districts-are learning how to successfully teach traffic
safety education with limited
money.
A new major
component of learning how to drive better revolves around a tool called
the Skid Monster. [more...]
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Driver Ed Buys Monster to Put Fear - And Experience -
Into Students
By Katherine Kapos
The
Salt Lake Tribune, Friday, November 20,
1998
Taylorsville
- The new driver education teacher in the Granite School District is a
monster.
Actually,
students have nothing to fear. But they should be prepared for crashed
cones, 360-degree turns and wobbly
knees.
That is because
the Skid Monster simulates some nasty road and weather conditions, giving
students a change to practice control... [more...]
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Training safe drivers
By CWU
News Services
ELLENSBURG - National statistics indicate teenage drivers are responsible
for about five times as many fatal crashes per licenseholder as drivers 35
to 64 years old.
While it's assumed a majority of the mishaps involve alcohol, experts say
carelessness and poor decision making are likely the cause of most of
these incidents.
Central Washington University is spearheading the effort to help
Washington's student drivers learn critical car-control and
decision-making skills needed to become safe drivers. [more...]
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RAIN Day to Focus On Automotive Safety
By Stephanie Reitz
The Hartford Courant, June 2,
1999
Who among us
hasn't experienced that sickening feeling as our rear tires lose their
grip on the roadway, sending our vehicles fishtailing on wet
pavement?
On Sunday,
you can experience that feeling in safety, and gain a few pointers about
how to handle the real
thing.
The "Skid
Monster," a creation of Frederik R. Mottola, professor emeritus at
Southern Connecticut State University, will be one of many features and
events at this weekend's second annual RAIN Day. [more...]
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A monster is the teacher
New
tool would teach secrets of driving
control
If
you've ever skidded out of control while driving, you know that helpless
feeling and enveloping fear of what could happen with you powerless to
prevent it.
But
relating that experience and its inherent danger to immortal-feeling
teenagers is impossible for traffic safety instructors, at least without
help. [more...]
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Skid Monster teaches kids control behind the
wheel
By Jonathan Martin
The
Spokesman-Review
Chuck
Filippini's car once hit black ice and pinwheeled out of control. The
North Central High driver's education instructor leapt from the mouth of
disaster, safely slamming into a roadside snowbank outside of Selkirk.
But he hopes to teach
his students how to avoid such accidents and, with the purchase of a
contraption called the Skid Monster, he has a unique teacher's aid. [more...]
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SCSU professor creates a 'Skid Monster'
By Patrick Dilger
New Haven Register, February 21,
1995
New Haven -
Negotiating a cone-lined parking lot in a dumpy little car with an oddball
set of rear wheels appears easy until the first turn.
Then...chaos!
Even at a
tortoise-like 10 miles per hour, the Chevy Citation whips into one, two,
three spins as the driver grapples with the wheel and pounds the brake.
[more...]
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