Qatar- 'Mini school' to ensure safe driving
Date
3/16/2016 1:08:56 AM
(MENAFN- The Peninsula) A traffic patrol car fitted with the mobile ‘smart radar’.
By Sidi Mohamed
DOHA: The aim of free practical tips in driving being offered by a mini-driving school set up at the venue of the ongoing 32nd GCC Traffic Week is to help people avoid serious accidents an official said.
The mini-driving school has been set up by Dalla a driving academy in Doha at Darb Al Saai where the GCC Traffic Week is being held.
Salem Aqueel Training and Development Manager at Dalla Driving Academy said: “We are offering free practical tips in driving for three to five minutes to every visitor and our aim is to ensure a ‘safe motorist’ on the road”.
“We want to benefit from technology and utilise it for traffic safety. For example we are showing to visitors some hypothetical accidents as if they are real and caused due to some traffic safety rule violations such as high speed or overtaking so they would not forget such accidents and would try to avoid such violations while driving” he said.
Six cars have been deployed for training purposes at the mini-school and one of them is for people with special needs. Obviously the free tips in driving are only for people aged 18 and above said Aqueel.
Many visitors have liked the idea and said they saw such hypothetical accidents through special glasses offered by Dalla Academy. They lauded the tips. Practical tips are also being provided for L and parking.
The Traffic Department (Khalifa Traffic City) is participating in the 32nd GCC Traffic Week and they are focusing on youngsters aged 14 and below to help increase traffic awareness among them through lectures as also some practical to show traffic rules.
The Week opened three days ago. Khalifa Traffic City received yesterday morning students from 22 schools and the day before from 19 schools.
Every school brought a maximum of 41 students on average and 17 at the minimum and the students also included those with special needs a supervisor at Khalifa Traffic City’s pavilion told this newspaper.
A the pavilion of the Management of Engineering and Traffic Safety is displaying many new and modern radars both fixed and mobile to detect speed-related violations.
One of the mobile radars is a smart patrol radar. It has been installed since the past one year by the traffic department on its patrols.
This radar has six cameras fitted in it and they can catch violations and recognise car number. It can also do face recognition in case of a crime using a car on the road.
But this service (face recognition) is not yet activated because the department is not interested.
“We are using it only as radar and for traffic violations” said the official.
The Peninsula