Driving Schools in Virginia - Market Driving Schools in Virginia - Market

• 200 Driver Training schools1

• 200 Driver Improvement clinics2

– Average repeat offenders per clinic every year: 32 students

– About 6,400 repeat offenders attend every year

(1) Virginia DMV http://www.dmv.virginia.gov/webdoc/citizen/drivers/cdl_schools.asp (2) Virginia DMV http://www.dmv.virginia.gov/webdoc/commercial/business/diclinic/index.asp

Auto Accident StatisticsAuto Accident Statistics

• 2008: 5,811,000 police-reported traffic crashes1 – 37,261 people

killed – 2,346,000 injured – 4,146,000 crashes

involving property damage

(1) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811162.PDF

(1) NHTSA http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811162.PDF

(2) NHTSA http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811036.PDF

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Car Crash Fatality StatisticsCar Crash Fatality Statistics

Costs of Auto AccidentsCosts of Auto Accidents

• $1,000 a year for each American 1

• Economic cost of speed related crashes: $40.4 billion a year 2

(1) CNN http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/05/news/economy/AAA_study/

(2) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811162.PDF 

U.S. car accident cost:$164.2 billion every year 1

GPS and Driving Monitor MarketGPS and Driving Monitor Market• Nearly 300 million Americans own an in-car GPS

(2007) 1, 2

• DriveCam currently has its monitoring system in 100,000 commercial and consumer vehicles 3

(1) http://www.itfacts.biz/17-of-americans-have-a-gps-device-34-are-handheld-33-are-car-mounted/8873

(2) http://www.prb.org/pdf07/07WPDS_Eng.pdf

(3) http://eetimes.eu/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207603212

(4) http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=11523

96.6% growthin GPS market

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