Just Drive Simulator Journey Map

Click through each section to learn more about what participants experience at every point along the way.

Just Drive Simulator Journey Map
Welcome and Orientation Pre-Survey Choose & Experience Your Scenario Post-Survey Reflection Learn & Commit Final Safety Message About The Kiefer Foundation

Welcome and Orientation

Meet your virtual safety emcee, who will guide you through the experience and explain what to expect. This introduction is designed to help you feel comfortable, confident, and prepared before entering the simulation. Your emcee will walk you through how the experience works, what you’ll encounter, and how to navigate each step along the way.

More importantly, this moment sets the tone for why this experience matters. You’ll be reminded that every person has a role to play in keeping our roads safe, not just drivers, but passengers too. If something feels unsafe, you have both the right and the responsibility to speak up. This experience is about awareness, empowerment, and making choices that can help prevent crashes and save lives.

Pre-Survey

Answer a few quick questions to capture your current driving habits and how you perceive distraction risk. Before entering the simulation, you’ll complete a brief pre-survey made up of five questions, each pulled from a larger question bank designed to assess areas like risk perception, avoidance behaviors, bystander willingness, attitudes, and fact-based knowledge.

The same five questions will appear again after your experience, allowing you to reflect on how your perspectives may shift. Because questions are randomly selected, each session may present a slightly different set, helping to build a more complete picture over time.

Choose & Experience Your Scenario

Select from one of three immersive environments—Daytime Highway, Nighttime Rural Road, or School Drop-Off—and step into the moments leading up to a distracted driving crash. Each scenario places you behind the wheel in a realistic setting where everyday distractions begin to compete for your attention.

As the experience unfolds, you’ll see how quickly a momentary lapse in focus can escalate into a life-changing event. After the crash, you’ll have the opportunity to rewind and explore how different choices could have changed the outcome. This hands-on experience is designed to move beyond awareness and create a lasting impression, helping you recognize risks in real time and understand the impact of the decisions you make behind the wheel.

Post-Survey Reflection

After completing the scenario, you’ll take a short post-survey to process how the experience impacted your mindset, behaviors, and willingness to speak up as a passenger. This survey includes the same five questions you answered before the simulation, giving you the opportunity to reflect on any changes in your perspective.

By comparing your responses, you can see how your understanding of risk, your habits, and your attitudes may have shifted in just a short amount of time. This moment of reflection is a key part of the experience, helping to turn what you saw and felt into something more meaningful and personal.

Learn & Commit

Explore distracted driving statistics and sign the Just Drive Pledge to commit to safer, more focused driving. After experiencing the simulation, this step reinforces what you’ve seen with real-world data that highlights the true impact of distraction on our roads.

You’ll gain a deeper understanding of how common distracted driving is, how quickly it can lead to a crash, and the consequences that follow. This added context helps connect the experience to real-life situations happening every day.

You’ll then be invited to take the Just Drive Pledge, making a personal commitment to stay focused, avoid distractions, and speak up when something feels unsafe. This moment is about turning awareness into action and choosing to be part of the solution.

Final Safety Message

Your emcee closes with a reminder that you hold the power to prevent crashes—every time you choose to Just Drive. This final moment reinforces the key message that safe driving is a choice, and one that has the ability to protect not only your life, but the lives of everyone around you.

It’s a powerful conclusion that ties together everything you’ve experienced, from awareness to reflection to action. You’ll leave with a clear understanding that distraction is preventable and that small decisions behind the wheel can have lasting consequences.

The message is simple, but meaningful: stay focused, stay present, and always choose to Just Drive.