How many times has the State raised the problem of making safe driving courses compulsory for those who take a licence? Many times, but without achieving results. It has often been the Associations that fight for road safety that have re-proposed the question on the occasion of road tragedies. Società Autostrade does its best with advertising campaigns, warnings and tutorials, but the weight of the disasters is on the conscience of all motorists. In fact, regardless of the state that has no definitive rules, there are organizations that run these courses to raise the driving quality of an automobile. The issue particularly concerns young people who leave driving schools certain that they can get behind the wheel without other excessive worries. Salvatore Ambrosino, CEO of Guida e Vai, he is instead having success with safe driving courses after bringing 100 instructors from all over Italy to the classroom. He trains those who train those who aspire to a driver's license. Better than an online tutorial, now in its second edition.
The project, inspired overall by road safety, is called "Drive and go safely" and is the only one in Italy today. “We are very proud of the enthusiasm with which the initiative was welcomed by the driving schools, but above all by the students themselves” says Ambrosino. In essence it is the Company Reddoak – with a turnover of over 5 million Euros – which is specialized in the research and development of advanced technological applications. In just a few years it has created an ecosystem of solutions and services to perfect driving training and testing.
Safe driving courses and the thousands of road victims
The first Regions to deal with the project were Lombardy and Piedmont. The next could be Puglia. “The distinctive value of Guida e Vai conSafe is having been able, where others have not succeeded, to create the right training opportunities, through "direct experience" albeit simulated and carried out in a protected context. ”It is more than an experimentation on the track with the aim of make safe driving compulsory to students, before taking the final licensing exam. In 2020, there were in Italy 120 thousand road accidents with injuries to people, with 2.395 dead and about 160 injured. The road safety project promotes responsible behavior precisely to reduce the number of road accidents and fatalities as much as possible. Is a sort of driving school 2.0 emerging that considers people's safety as a value to be protected? Maybe yes. “In Lombardy, for example – adds Ambrosino – within a couple of days of the opening of registrations, all the slots made available were booked, making it necessary to add new dates. ”A surprising result that gives the figure of how aware, well-prepared driving is a theme strongly felt among young people and their families.
Inside the squares of the selected circuits, the qualified instructors transmit theoretical notions, as well as directly experiencing critical situations. At the end of each module, a nominative certificate of participation is issued, which is meant to be a recognition of the individual's commitment. ”In any case, within three years we will think of a national platform to work in each Region, where there will be a track with special agreements, an educational program and a pool of instructors qualified to teach the courses. If rules were to come from the state, so much the better, because reckless driving scares everyone.
