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In British Columbia, new drivers are 5.6 times more likely to crash than those with 20 years of driving experience.
With this in mind, ICBC is launching a new pilot project that will monitor the movement of 7,000 new drivers across the province, hoping to make them safer while driving.
The insurance company invites drivers with less than five years of experience to test telematics technology, which can help them improve their driving skills.
The telematics pilot will use an onboard device communicating with an application of the driver's mobile phone. When the driver is on the road, the device records braking, speed and distracted driving patterns.
The results of the first telematics pilot project at the beginning of the year showed that more than 40% of new drivers had improved their driving thanks to technology.
"Since our first telematics pilot project earlier this year, ICBC has developed a telematics strategy to determine how to use this technology to improve road safety and behavior change among high-risk drivers in British Columbia." said Nicolas Jimenez, president and CEO of ICBC in a statement.
"The pilot project participants said that most of them felt that the use of telematics would make roads safer for all. This is the next step in our in-depth review of telematics technology and how it could help enhance the safety of these drivers. "
Participants will be able to register in the spring of 2019 and the pilot project will be launched in the summer. ICBC says those who participate in the program will receive incentives.
"We are currently in the early stages of planning this pilot project and the details of the incentives will be confirmed once the supplier is selected and the pilot design is complete," ICBC Communications Specialist Lindsay Wilkins told HBC Daily.
New drivers interested in participating can register online.
ICBC, currently straddling a debt of nearly $ 1 billion, says its rates are "under considerable pressure, in part because of a significant increase in the number of collisions."
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