SPARK Prevention

Prevention and driver training: the driver measured under load

Learning to drive is learning to manage load and attention. SPARK makes them measurable, in the car simulator, for driving schools and for road safety programmes.

01 · What it measures

What the instrument measures in the driver

Load while learning

The learner's cognitive load in each situation: a junction, a lane change, heavy traffic.

Vigilance, microsleep and focus

When focus narrows, when it slips, and when vigilance drops as far as microsleep, over a whole session at the wheel.

Progress over time

Each learner's measurements, followed session after session.

02 · What it brings

Showing what the driver cannot feel

Overload and fatigue are hard to feel from the inside and hard to see from the outside. Measured, they become something the instructor and the learner can look at together.

Each lesson can be paced on the learner's load, and road safety programmes gain facts about the driver, not only about the vehicle.

Learning to drive, measured from the inside.

03 · In practice

How it is used, and for whom

How it is used

The instrument is worn by the learner or the driver in the car simulator. The instructor follows the measurement during the lesson, then goes back over it in the debrief.

Who it's for

  • Driving schools
  • Driving instructors
  • Road safety organisations
  • Learner drivers

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