Aggressive drivers are more likely to engage in high-risk and discourteous driving behavior. The Defense Department is among the entities looking into aggressive driving, because car accidents account for about 65 percent of the fatalities in the armed services, according to Phyllis Moon, an Army safety and occupational health manager based in Atlanta. Moon said activities to curb aggressive driving today are analogous to efforts to curb drunken driving in the 1980s. People are just beginning to realize that aggressive driving is a problem. People are just now developing programs to combat it.
Most programs concentrate on recognizing aggressive driving and what to do to combat it.
The Army's Forces Command is working on a program called Combating Aggressive Driving. We're hoping we can bring it to the forefront and at least start an awareness campaign and a behavior modification campaign. If the Fort Polk test is successful, the program will move to the rest of the Army and then possibly to DoD, Moon said.