Annual Tabulations of Mature Driver Program Driving Record Comparisons-1991. Annual Report to the Legislature of the State of California

摘要

The California Legislature established the mature driver improvement (MDI) program through enactment of Assembly Bill 2610 (Katz, 1986). The legislation required the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to establish standards for, and develop criteria for approving, education courses designed to update the driving skills and knowledge of drivers 55 years of age or older. The MDI course curriculum includes information on defensive driving, traffic laws, and the traffic safety effect of driver fatigue and health, among other topics. The legislation also requires DMV to submit an annual report to the Legislature by July 1 of each year. The report is to include information on any differences between the driving records of MDI course graduates and those of drivers with similar characteristics, and on factors that may influence course participation. The two primary inferential issues addressed in the report are (1) whether MDI course graduates are at less actuarial accident risk than nonparticipants and (2) whether the MDI program reduces accident risk. The present study constitutes the third annual report on the program.