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UPS

UPS is featured in Automotive Fleet’s magazine for their innovative use of VDI’s Virtual HD program to train their fleet drivers on the best way to handle highly volatile and dangerous driving situations. Click Here

UPS Foundation & Boys & Girls Clubs of America

VDI has partnered with the UPS Foundation to provide over 100 simulators to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America across the country as part of their Road Code initiative.

• “Road Code Graduates Top 100”

• Click here to watch UPS Road Code Video & See VDI Simulators in Action

• BGCA, UPS Foundation Drive Change With National UPS Road Code Program

Toyota and Discovery Education: Teen Driver

Toyota and Discovery Education announce the winners of the Toyota Teen Driver Educator’s Challenge with contest prizes including two VDI trainers!

• Toyota And Discovery Education Challenge Teachers And Students To Help Teens Stay Safe Behind The Wheel
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• “Seymour High School Students Test Driving Skills with Virtual Simulator”
• Hi-Tech driving comes to Seymour High
• “Virtual Driving Puts Students in Safe Driver’s Seat”
• Toyota and Discovery Education Invite Students to Celebrate Safe Driving
• “Valley High School First to Win National Driver’s Ed Competition”
• “Connecticut and Alabama School Teachers Named Winners in Toyota Teen Driver Educators’ Challenge”
• Toyota Winners Help Teens Be Better Drivers in Connecticut and Alabama

Nationwide Insurance and Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT)

VDI customers, Nationwide Insurance and Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), launch “Distracted Driver Simulator Tour”.

• “Simulator helps teach lesson about distracted driving”
• “Trotwood Teens Learn Dangers of Distracted Driving”
• “ODOT Shows Off Distracted Driver Simulator at Local Fair”
• “Westlake students get a lesson in distracted driving from ODOT”
• “North Royalton Students Receive Crash Course in Distracted Driving”
• “Distracted Driving Simulation has Drivers Rethink Habits”
• SADD, AAA promote safe teen drivers at Allen East
• Simulator recreates distracted driving
• “Simulator Shows Drivers Effects of Distracted Driving”
• “Simulator Sends Message to Young Drivers”
• Students Take Wheel Behind Distracted Driving Simulator
• “Teens Learn Dangers of Distracted Driving

Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic demonstrates the power of VDI’s One Simple Decision to prevent injuries throughout the communities of Minnesota by showing the devastating consequences of distracted and impaired driving.

• “think you can text, drive?  try this”
• “The Dangers of Drunk Driving“
• Mayo Clinic’s Medical Edge:  Distracted Driving
• Mayo Clinic Demonstrated OSD at the Emergency Nurses 

AAA

AAA uses VDI Driving Simulator to Teach Students the Dangers of Texting While Driving.

• Westfield Marks Texting Ban
• Simulator Help Teens Understand Dangers of Texting & Driving
• “Logan Students Try Texting and Driving Simulator”
• “Driving Home a Point at BMHS”
• “Simulator Gives Students Lesson in Dangers of Distractions”
• AAA and Illinois State Police Host Texting and Driving Simulator
• “Logan Students Learn Dangers of Texting While Driving”
• “Demonstrating the Dangers of Texting and Driving”
• Michigan State Police Using AAA Simulator
• “Lethal Texting:  Trying to Get Teens to Stop Texting While Driving”
• “All of the students rated the driving simulators as “impactful” and “useful”

Nationwide Insurance

Nationwide Insurance (Getzoni Agency) uses 21st century VDI driving simulator with One Simple Decision™ curriculum to save teen lives throughout New York.

• Students put behind the wheel of a simulator
• Irondequoit teens learn about dangers of distracted driving
• Distracted driving simulator
• New Utrecht Students Crash Cars in Driving Simulation

CNN

CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on a VDI’s virtual driving program that shows teens the consequences of distracted or impaired driving.

• “Virtual Tragedies Get Teens Attention Behind the Wheel”

State Farm

State Farm uses VDI simulators to build their brand while promoting teen driver safety with Celebrate My Drive.

• A new approach to teen driver safety with a new campaign called Celebrate My Drive.
• “Rally Gives New Spin To Teen Driver Safety”.
• “Celebrate My Drive Focuses on Teen Driver Safety.”
• “State Farm Reaches the Teen Driver and Parent Market with Celebrate My Drive, Road Trips and More.”

Ohio Highway Patrol and Stark County SAFE Communities

Ohio Highway Patrol and Stark County SAFE Communities are using VDI simulators in their new program called Drive Talk.

• “New Program Will Address Teen Driving Practices”

Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital

Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital – Injury Prevention Center purchased VDI driving simulators to bring awareness to the deadly consequences of distracted and impaired driving.

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• “Students Get Virtual Taste of Impaired Driving”

University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, UPMC Hamot, purchases a VDI simulator for their Teen Safe Driver Task Force with a State Farm insurance grant.

• “Simulator Teaches Harbor Creek Students Risks of Distracted Driving”

Ohio DOT

Ohio DOT showcases a VDI simulator to show Ohio young adults the consequences of distracted and impaired driving.

• Buckeye Students Get Dose of Virtual Reality
• “Simulator Shows Dangers of Driving”
• “Simulator Drives Point Home”
• “Novice drivers at greater risk for distracted driving”

Maine Bureau of Highway Safety

VDI customer Maine Bureau of Highway Safety is rolling out a new driver education program statewide.

>”Police to Crack Down on Distracted Driving”

>”Simulator Demonstrates Danger of Distracted Driving”

>”Sending a Message”

>Dangers of distracted driving demonstrated

UMass Memorial Medical Center

The Allstate Foundation and UMass Memorial Medical Center provide funding to launch “Teen D.R.I.V.E.” (Distracted Reality an Interactive Virtual Education), featuring VDI’s “One Simple Decision”, in Massachusetts.

• “Crash course for teen drivers”
• “May 20 is Deadliest Single Day For Teens Who Die In Car Crashes”
• Teens Experience Perils of Distracted Driving
• New Program Makes Teens Think Twice About Texting While Driving

New Jersey Manufacturer’s & Brain Injury Alliance

New Jersey Manufacturer’s & Brain Injury Alliance of New Jersey sponsor Champion Schools program donating VDI simulators to 55 New Jersey high schools.

• “Ewing-based New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance donates 55 Driving Simulators to High Schools”
• “West Orange High School Driving Simulator Dedication”
• VDI Simulators Chosen for 55 New Jersey High Schools
• “Mainland Regional HS Students To Get Virtual Practice for Better Driving Safety”
• “Belleville Students Send Safe Driving Message”
• Champion Schools program winners announced
• “Mercer County Schools Awarded Driving Simulators”
• “Teens Show they’ve Got Brains and Know How to Use Them”
• “Insurer to Help South Jersey Teens Learn How to Drive”

Kaiser Permanente

Kaiser Permanente using VDI’s distracted driving simulator to help educate people about the dangers of not paying attention when behind the wheel.

• Kaiser uses simulator to stress danger of distracted driving
• “CHP hopes Solano County Fair ‘Ride’ Saves Lives”

Illinois State Police

Illinois State Police offer the community a chance to try texting and driving in a controlled environment using a VDI driving simulator with the “One Simple Decision” program.

• “ISP Gets New Tool to Prevent Distracted Driving”

Covenant Health Care

Covenant Health Care teaches danger of texting while driving utilizing VDI simulators.

• “Distracted drivers:  Saginaw County teens receive hands-on lesson about distracted driving”
• Saginaw, MI – Local students are getting a chance to ……

Amherst Police Department

Amherst Police Department showcasing VDI’s One Simple Decision simulation program at high schools throughout New York.