The United Parcel Service is turning to videogames as a method of training new driver candidates.

UPS selected interactive training in a bid to cut down on a failure rate of 30.0 percent among potential hires under traditional training methods, [URL=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303912104575164573823418844.html?mod=googlenews_wsj]reports the Wall Street Journal[/URL]. The training is conducted in a facility outside of Washington D.C. where attendees are taught to shave precious seconds off of a variety of daily routines related to delivering packages.

Interactive training ranges from a videogame that “places them in the driver's seat and has them identify obstacles,” to a PC-based simulation called “Clarksville,” which features “a village of miniature houses and faux businesses on the property where they [trainees] drive a real truck and must successfully execute five deliveries in 19 minutes.”

Trainees are also taught to “wear keys on their ring fingers to avoid wasting time searching for them.”
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