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Article: Franconia firm hopes to SAVE military lives: simulated driving project targets deadly vehicle accidents.(ENTREPRENEURS)
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- New Hampshire Business Review
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- November 21, 2008
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A Franconia start-up has been awarded a two-year Department of Defense contract to tackle the military's leading cause of accidental death: motor vehicle accidents.
"Too many people are dying in cars," said Greg McKinney, managing member and senior vice president of Vehicle Control Training LLC, or VCT. Between 1980 and 2005, the military lost 6,550 people to motor vehicle accidents; 2,070 died in combat.
McKinney said he believes that in many accidents driver skills couldn't meet the challenge of travel on Iraq or Afghanistan's poorly constructed, rocky, muddy and icy roads In response. the company plans to develop a loose-surface, high-speed driving ...