00:00Hello, I'm Russell, I'm a driver trainer here at West Midlands Ambulance Service.
00:08This is our new driver simulator.
00:10We're the first ambulance service in the country to have a simulator like this.
00:15This allows us to simulate circumstances which you can't predict in real life,
00:19such as people walking out, animals walking out into the road, vehicle breakdowns, poor weather,
00:26and situations where you might have to drive down the motorway the wrong way to attend an incident,
00:31which we cannot practically demonstrate or practice in a real world setting.
00:36This will give the learners the opportunity to experience incidents they've never experienced before
00:41and how to deal with them.
00:43Each learner has an hour's practice on the simulator.
00:46This doesn't take them away from driving driver training units on live roads within the public setting.
00:53It enhances the learning experience.
00:57This allows our learners to have a prepared edge when they do become operational
01:01and attend incidents in a real life setting.
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