Novel use of a virtual driving assessment to classify driver skill at the time of licensure.

Motor vehicle crash rates are highest immediately after licensure, and driver error is one of the leading causes. Yet, few studies have quantified driving skills at the time of licensure, making it difficult to identify at-risk drivers

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of Competing Interest Author Winston and David Grethlein have an intellectual property and financial interest in Diagnostic Driving, Inc. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has an institutional financial interest in Diagnostic Driving, Inc. Diagnostic Driving, Inc., created a virtual driving assessment system that is used in Ohio as an assessment at licensing centers and in driving schools to assess driver skills. Winston serves as the chief scientific advisor of Diagnostic Driving, Inc. This potential conflict of interest is managed under a conflict-of-interest management plan from CHOP and the University of Pennsylvania whereby Winston has no interaction with participants (all field data collection procedures were carried out by Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles personnel) and all analyses were reviewed and approved by outside consultants with no intellectual or financial interest (John Bolte, a traffic injury researcher at the Ohio State University, and Nancy Kassam-Adams, a behavioral researcher at CHOP and the University of Pennsylvania). Author Grethlein works as a Data Scientist at Diagnostic Driving Inc. His conflict is managed in the same manor as Dr. Winston: Grethlein has no interaction with participants and was not directly involved in the analysis of this paper, which has been reviewed and approved by outside consultants with no intellectual or financial interest (named above).