-I never thought rd say
this but it seems ICBC
has decided to step
down froin its
omnipresent pedestal of

"power and mingie with
ius paupetrs.- . .

‘ ally responding to the
premier’s challenge for crown
corporations to: become pro-:

the’ employment of:

uth, the- Insurance

Corporation of B.C: has creat:

edthe Youth Employment

Initiative (YEI), and, no sur-

prises here, this YEI hes
proven productive.

= The North Shore Chapter

of the YEI, consisting of tive

“students "and managed by’
“>: BrettGossman - and Jock

Was 128,205 °
Now "20,581

or lease from
a
$215 mo

nSased an 24 mth. Smart ease, $

approach to traffic safety
awareness. ;

Their “Brake Reaction
Simulstor” — created from
scratch over i peried of two
months by Simon Han,
Victor Wong, Alden Chan,
Alex Mui and Jonathan Jacob
— is destined to replace its

clunky ‘50s black box/red -

light, reaction-time analyzer
counterpart.

Was $31,140
Now $27,497

or iease from

$276 ino:

Modern computer tech-
nology and the hipness of
youth have combined to cre-
ate a driving/braking simula-
tion that is eerily accurate,
simple to operate and imme-
diate in its results thanks to a
whole lot of variables
crunched together in an elab-
orate formula on a PC.

“It was a real challenge to
come up with an interface that
is both realistic and easy to
use,” said Wong, a student at
SEU.
with what we've been able co
accomplish.”

Catching a sneak preview of
their accomplishment, I

_ promptly crashed the YEI car

while cruising a nameless street
of North Vancouver. In an
instant I realized that one can-
not lock *em up at 90 km-h

“We're really pleased -

The driver's seat of the
“Brake Reaction
Simulator” inctudes a
familiar North Shore icon.

without a whole lor of safe
free space out in front.

¥es folks, i crashed.
Fortunately, their car was
merely virtual, the environ-
ment cnly an office on
Esplanade; my insurance rates
will not increase, yet I’ve dis-
covered (well, re-discovered)
what a “safe following dis-
tance” really is. The next time
some dough-head comes to
an abrupt halt in front of me,
I’m prepared.

The simulator makes its:

public debut at the Molson
Indy this Labor Day long
weekend. Check it out.
Thanks to five youths and
some real initiative, you too
can learn how to truly be safe.

Was $20,650

Now $17

689

or lease from

$132" mo

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