INSTRUCTIONAL STIMULATION DEVICE FOR THE TEACHING OF THE BEHIND-THE-WHEEL PHASE OF DRIVER EDUCATION

• US 3,590,265 A
• Filed: 01/03/1969
• Issued: 06/29/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: William D. Richardson
• Original Assignee: William D. Richardson
• Inventors: Richardson, William D.
• Application Number:
  US04/788,786
• Time in Patent Office: 907 Days
• US Class Current: 307/10.1
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 9/04 for teaching control of land vehicles

Abstract

A device for instructing drivers by simulating certain conditions comprising a plurality of switches and light means and a control box for actuating the switches to call attention to changed or simulated conditions and the light means to measure the time lapse between mirror checks by a driver learning how to drive.

Claims

1. In a motor vehicle having a driver'"'"''"'"'s seat, a rear window and a rearview mirror above the driver'"'"''"'"'s seat, and facing the rear window, an instructional stimulation device for the teaching of the behind-the-wheel phase of driver education, comprising a control switch box with a plurality of switches connected in circuit with various electrical parts of the vehicle to test the response of a student driver to simulated conditions, including at least two lights of different colors mounted adjacent said rear window, a source of current, one of said switches comprising a two-position selector switch, and circuit means connecting said source of current to one of said lights through the two-position switch in one of its positions and to the other light in the other of its positions, whereby said lights may be selectively energized.

2. The instructional stimulation device of claim 1, and dimming resistance means, and circuit means including one of said switches to at times connect said dimming resistance means in series with the selected light.

3. The instructional stimulation device of claim 1, and wherein said cirCuit means includes a remote switch with an elongated two-conductor cable connected thereto.

4. The device of claim 1 wherein said plurality of switches includes separate switches adapted to be connected to the ignition coil, the temperature and pressure indicator, and to the gas indicator.

5. The device of claim 1 wherein said plurality of switches includes a separate switch adapted to be connected to the horn relay of a vehicle and a separate switch adapted to be connected to a buzzer.