A License to License. ESRA Consulting Corporation... -
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Published on: 7/28/2005
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"They are unusual specialties, but there are many interconnections between both the sciences and best practices in those areas," said Sandy H. Straus, ESRA's president and senior engineer.
She has recently added another specialty to the firm: license-testing systems.It came about almost by accident, yet it's one, she thinks, could make the seven-employee firm big bucks in the future.
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"We donated more than 10,000 hours of our time in order to deliver a breakthrough report," Straus said.
Transport industry officials who were surveyed generally agreed that current licensing procedures remain inadequate, reconfirming a 1994 study by McCloskey et al.
And Straus had a personal interest in helping design a better licensing system: Her grandfather was killed while walking by an errant driver.
"What we came to envision was a whole new automated system of license testing, utilizing state-of-the-art visual acuity testing machines - but also developing software and hardware testing for peripheral vision, glaucoma, macular degeneration, dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, things for which no current testing is done," she said.