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Behind The Wheel
What factors make driving especially dangerous for teenagers? What dangers do they encounter when they test their limits? Behind The Wheel uncovers the dangers of teen drivers testing their limits (often by speeding and/or racing) and shows ways to stop simple distractions from turning into deadly mistakes.
Available on DVD or VHS. 25 min. |
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Breaking The Accident Chain Of Events
Dramatizes through vignettes the chain of events leading to a traffic accident. Emphasizes the need to be a responsible driver by staying alert, being decisive, and being polite and reasonable in traffic. 7 min. |
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Car Care, Automotive First Aid And Safety
Designed to help motorists maintain a safer vehicle and avoid breakdowns and costly repairs. 26 min. |
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Cars, Motorcycles & A Common Road
A Common Road is a video intended to increase a motorist's awareness of motorcyclists on the road. It illustrates potentially hazardous situations that an inattentive motorist can create for the motorcyclist and explains why they are so dangerous. 8 min. |
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Dangerous Crossings: A Second Thought
Shows the tragic consequences that can result when people fail to yield at railroad crossings. The danger involved is made clearer through the voices of those affected. And, the video offers suggestions for law enforcement officials on ways they can encourage railroad crossing safety and save lives. 14 min. |
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Don't Let Up!
Shows high school driver education students using anti-lock brakes (ABS) for the first time. Demonstrates the ability of ABS to prevent loss of control on a variety of wet and dry surfaces. Shows how even inexperienced drivers can brake hard in emergency situations and steer out of trouble. Main message is to step hard on the brakes and "Don't Let Up!" This video comes with a teacher's guide. 9 min. |
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Driving In Bad Weather
Using the setting of a television newscast, this video dramatizes the blinding effects of fog, dust, smoke, rain, snow and ice. Stresses the need to maintain control or get off the road safely in adverse conditions. Also presents tips on maintaining a car properly to better prepare for bad conditions. Comes with teacher's guide. 9 min. |
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Driving In Orange
Produced by the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department in partnership with Mack-Blackwell Transportation Center, Driving In Orange instructs motorists on the best ways to approach and safely navigate through work zones. 13 min. |
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First On The Scene
What the first driver arriving on the scene of an accident should do to help initiate EMS action and control the scene to prevent additional accidents. 6 min. |
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Freeway Driving
Demonstrates how freeways demand quicker thinking than conventional roadways. Discusses how to merge onto a multi-lane highway smoothly and decisively, how to handle weave lanes (lanes used as both entrance and exit lanes), and how to know when you've reached your exit. Comes with teacher's guide. 8 min. |
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Freeway Driving: Making Critical Decisions
Special freeway driving skills are presented for getting on and off the freeway safely, maintaining a safe space margin, learning to use freeway guide signs and planning your trip. 14 min. |
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Freewayphobia One
Walt Disney's cartoon character, Goofy, vividly illustrates the proper techniques for driving the freeways. These include the procedures for entering and leaving the highway, changing lanes, and the dangers of freeway hypnosis. 15 min. |
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Freewayphobia Two
Goofy deals with making sure your car is properly prepared for driving on a freeway and what to do if the car should break down. Goofy also points out the importance of the mental and physical condition of the driver. 15 min. |
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Get A Grip
This video helps viewers understand the risks involved in driving on wet roads and how to better manage risk-the chance of injury, damage or loss. Managing risk when driving involves controlling visibility, time, and space, and being aware of the traction available. 10 min. |
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Getting Safely Past The Orange Barrels
A presentation designed to help gain drivers' cooperation in protecting the lives of high way construction workers as well as to reduce crashes in highway workzones. Construction signs, signals and markings are discussed in terms of their meanings and how drivers should adjust their driving when passing through road construction areas. 11 min. |
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Make Winter Driving Safer
Outlines the adjustments in skills necessary for winter driving and the precautions a driver should take to prepare his car for cold weather. Emphasis is given to the proper techniques needed to anticipate and avoid potential winter accidents due to skidding on ice and snow, how to recover from a skid, and the proper use of jumper cables. 13 min. |
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Managing Space And Time For Safe Driving
A new driver education presentation emphasizing how good drivers continually adjust their driving to maintain a safe space cushion in traffic. It stresses the need for maintaining safe following distances and the active use of your eyes in knowing what is going on around the vehicle. 10 min. |
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Night Driving
Demonstrates how darkness limits driver's vision. Includes ways to keep your car in shape for night driving and the ways in which drivers must change their driving at night. Comes with teacher's guide. 9 min. |
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On The Scene: A Guide To Bystander Care At A Roadside Emergency
This video follows the behavioral objectives of the National Curriculum for Bystander Care proposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. It is a guide to assisting on the scene of a roadside emergency; it is not a substitute for qualified medical care. 10 min. |
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Preventing Road Rage -- Anger Management For Drivers
Violent aggressive driving, or "Road Rage," is a growing public concern. This educational video addresses that concern by teaching viewers how to avoid offending other drivers; manage their own anger; and disengage from an angry encounter. 20 min. |
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Roadwise Review: A Tool to Help Seniors Drive Safely Longer
The computer-based screening program in Roadwise contains the most effective predictors of crash risk in eight functional areas as validated in research sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the National Institute on Aging. More details >> |
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Seconds To Live
If you're looking for a good defensive driving video for the experienced driver, look no further. Seconds To Live is your best bet. Sgt. Ware examines those "time saving" driving habits we all fall into. He points those driving shortcuts could cost you your life. Jack Ware brings a fresh perspective to the defensive driving philosophy of "stay alert and stay alive." 30 min.
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Semi Conscious-Driving In The Real World
In this video, four teen-agers demonstrate six simple tips for sharing the road with trucks, using music to reinforce the message. Entertaining as well as informative. 12 min. |
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Sharing The Road
Helps motorists understand the special concerns and dangers faced by pedestrians truck drivers, motorcyclists, bicyclists and ambulance drivers. Presents specific tips on how to reduce the risks of sharing the road. Comes with teacher's guide. 8 min. |
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Signs, Signals, And Markings:
Understanding the Language of the Road
Illustrates the many kinds of information that drivers obtain through signs, signals, pavement markings, and devices along a highway and how these messages can be used to make driving safer. 9 min.
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The Final Factor
Shows common driving emergencies as they develop-first one factor, then another and another until in each of five separate situations, a "final factor" triggers an accident. Filmed in Kansas City, Mo. 15 min. |
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The Older and Wiser Driver
Techniques and advice on how to keep driving safely for as long as possible, regardless of your age, are presented in this excellent video. The four basic sections are vision, cognition, physical fitness and medication. Using the words and experiences of older drivers themselves, this video is designed for both classroom and home use. 22 min. |
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Unlocking the Mystery of ABS
A private eye is working late one night and hears a crash. Was it the brakes? He helps the young people involved in the wreck to unravel the mystery of how they should use their antilock brakes (ABS), which provide traction and steering in an emergency stop. The video explains how ABS works and shows dramatic examples of ways ABS differs from convention brakes, with special advice about steering. Through the video, drivers are encouraged to practice with their own cars and change their steering habits when using ABS. 14 min. |
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Using Your Eyes Effectively
This video demonstrates how to best use your eyes when driving. Discusses the two types of vision, central and peripheral, and where to concentrate your attention. Also discusses the effects of alcohol on a driver's visual perception. Comes with teacher's guide. 9 min. |
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Visual Perception In Driving
These color video presentations were produced for the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety by the Ohio State University Department of Photography and Cinema. Part one explains how eye habits affect driving. Part two demonstrates that visual perception in driving is very important. Part one-11 l/2 min. Part two-9 min. |
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Water Skiing On Four Wheels
This video explores the technical reasons for tire hydroplaning, its dangers and prevention in easy-to-understand terms. Tips on tire selection and how to avoid skidding also are vividly presented. 13 min. |
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