Safe Driving Education System ASSIST -- Education Anywhere, Anytime

One of the goals of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITSs) is to reduce traffic accidents and enhance safety. However, plenty of technologies for safe driving cannot prevent traffic accidents, if a driver does not understand what safe driving is exactly. Thus, driver education is quite important even if ITSs spread. In order to educate drivers, supervisors or safe driving managers should obtain information about driving behavior. Until now, no one could understand or supervise a driver´s driving behavior in a closed space inside the vehicle, unless a supervisor was with him in the same vehicle. However, recent computer and communication technologies have made it possible to obtain information concerning driving behavior and record or send the information to a supervisor outside of the vehicle through wireless communication and the Internet. It is believed that the most efficient opportunity to teach safe driving is the moment when a driver is driving dangerously. Therefore, we have developed an Assistant System for Safe Driving by Informative Supervision and Training (ASSIST), a system created to prevent accidents based on our safe-driving theory.