Drive Square, a Boston-area company, is selling a portable, computerized driving simulator that safely coaches students about driving in dangerous situations. It attaches to any car. But because the trainee's car does not actually move, the device demonstrates the perils of particular driving situations without imperiling the driver. Those situations include drunken driving.

"An impaired driving demonstrator, or drunk-driving simulator, allows a student to drive in a simulated drunk mode," explained Konstantin Sizov, Drive Square chief executive. The device shows the dangerous effects of drunken driving, "such as delayed response to controls and narrowing of the effective field of view," Sizov said. "Since we are using an actual car, this high-fidelity tool really brings the 'do not drink and drive' message home." Read this article in full with a
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