Smith System Offers Free Video Supporting Message of National Distracted Driving Summit

Smith System Offers Free Video Supporting Message of National Distracted
Driving Summit
$140 Value DVD offered FREE for a limited time

ARLINGTON, Texas, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to last week's National
Distracted Driving Summit held in Washington DC, Smith System is offering its
Distracted Driving video free of charge to organizations interested in
promoting safety for their employees. *

The video, entitled Are You Playing with a Full Deck?, shows how distractions
such as cell phones and texting affect our ability to concentrate on the
changes in traffic patterns as we drive. The National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) now lists distractions as the number one cause of
traffic accidents.

The two-day summit, called by Department of Transportation Secretary Ray
LaHood, brought federal, state and local officials and interested industry
representatives together to focus on actions being taken to curb the use of
cell phones and texting while driving. Secretary LaHood announced during the
summit that President Obama had signed an executive order banning federal
employees from text messaging while driving on the job or in a
government-owned vehicle.

Smith System trains corporate employees in its Smith 5 Keys of safe driving.
Its training produces significant reductions in the accident rates of
corporate fleets and driving education that employees can easily transfer to
their family members.

"Last week I participated in the US Department of Transportation Distracted
Driving Summit in Washington, DC where industry experts and members of
Congress gathered to discuss the problem of distracted driving," said Tony
Douglas, CEO of Smith System. "I am pleased to report that the scientific
conclusions verify what we have been teaching all along and what Harold Smith
originally said more than 50 years ago... driving is eyes-mind and not
hands-feet. Dr. Tom Dingus, Director of the Virginia Tech Transportation
Institute, said it best during the summit... 'vision is king.' The meeting
consensus was that vision factors (seeing) and cognitive factors (thinking)
are the solution to the distracted driving problem ...or what we might call
'not playing with a full deck.' I am very pleased to offer this complimentary
copy of our Distracted Driving DVD to help reinforce the messages of the
Distracted Driving Summit.

For a preview of Are You Playing with a Full Deck and to order go to Smith
System's website at www.smith-system.com. You can also call us at 800
777-7648 or email us at freevideo@smith-system.com for more information.

About Smith System

Smith System Driver Improvement Institute, Inc. was founded in 1952 as the
nation's first fleet driver safety training organization with on-road,
hands-on safety education techniques for experienced drivers. Smith System
delivers behind the wheel instruction to more than 35,000 fleet drivers each
year and has presented their program in 83 countries and in 21 languages. In
the past decade, Smith has provided services to more than half of the current
Fortune 500® fleets and is the only company in the industry that guarantees
the quality of its training. In addition to its on-road training and extensive
video and DVD library, the company offers web-based education and fleet
monitoring.

*Terms of This Offer
The Are You Playing with a Full Deck DVD is a $140 value as purchased from
Smith System's SmithMedia library. It is being offered FREE of CHARGE only on
orders received between October 5 through October 31, 2009. A shipping and
handling fee of $8.00 per video will be applied to United States orders.
International orders will be subject to shipping charges based on the location
of the order. Please allow 4 weeks for delivery.

SOURCE Smith System

Frank Powers, Senior VP Sales & Marketing, Smith System, +1-800-777-7648,
fpowers@smith-system.com