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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.
         That help could come to students at Lake Roosevelt High School in the form of a Skid Monster, a $5000 contraption that hooks on to the back of a car like big hydraulic casters.
         "It's a good way to spend money on kids," said instructor Erik Lampi.
         The pneumatic device could also be used to train emergency services drivers. It can be used to teach the consequences of going too fast into a curve, what it's like to lose traction to the vehicle's tires and how to prevent skids. It's probably the only way to demonstrate safely the hopeless despair of hitting a patch of black ice and having only a fraction of a second to correct the fishtailing car.
         And, says literature about the Skid Monster, it can help motivate the high-risk driver to change behavior.
 
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