Mission Statement
The mission for NIDB is to help all roadway users –– pedestrians, bicyclsits, passengers, and drivers to avoid crashes –– crashes caused by others wrongful actions, or by one’s own actions.
The only formal education that most roadway users receive is when they are teens attending a driver education program in preparation for taking a licensing exam. Research often states that driver education is not effective for reducing crashes. What is driver education? There are as many variations of driver ed programs as there are driving instructors –– many conduct excellent program and others do not. Three things they all have in common: teens and parents main objective is to pass a licensing exam, teens only attend one course, and there is no evaluation of the behaviors developed into habits after licensing.
What if any other skills were taught the way driver ed is taught? Name any other skill, from learning how to read to becoming a brain surgeon, that would develop successful experts after attending only one 30-50 hour training program, and then students were left on their own –– with no coaching –– to acquire all essential skills to last them a lifetime? How many hundreds of hours of practice and years of training does it take to achieve successful performance for any one of these skills?
Suppose a basketball player was taught the way drivers are taught. The players would attend a course for a few weeks or a few months to learn the rules of the game; learn how to hold the ball; learn how to aim the ball; and learn how throw the ball in the basket from the foul line.
Then, suppose the player was immediately put into a game, which requires strategies to drive the ball from one end of the court to the other and shoot it into the basket? It’s a different set of skills than shooting from the foul line. Skills are needed to control the ball while moving it; to protect it from others trying to take it away; to know when to dribble fast and when to dribble slow.
To pass a licensing exam teens learn the basics to maneuver the vehicle, and are then required to “get experience” during GDL practice after licensing. They are put into the “game” with a limited set of licensing skills –– and no coaching to correct wrong behavior. Professor Mottola’s Famly Wellness Training provides the Ten Habits of Zone Control Strategies in the Driving MIND eCoach for teens to acquire Awareness, Car Control and Space Management strategies BEFORE driver licensing. A certified Driver Wellness Coach is able to “coach” the teen’s performance to cultivate crash-free driving habits.
Here’s what Coach Geno Auriemma, the highly successful UCONN women’s basketball coach, said about a talented recruit, “If the kid wants to be great and wants to be coached, then the kid is going to become a superstar.” Professor Mottola’s Family Wellness Training is like a professional coach that can make anyone who’s willing to be coached into an EXPERT driver with habits to share the road with pedestrians and bicyclist for zero crashes.