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involves teams. It needs to allow students to practice new knowledge and skills and also allow students to compare their performance to others.”

Peevy believes there are practical uses of extended reality, which refers to all real-and-virtual combined environments and human-machine interactions generated by computer technology and wearables, including augmented and virtual reality. Through the use of headsets that create their own environment, virtual reality provides training in complete immersion.

“There are no distractions,” Peevy stated. “You’re in a world that’s been created ideal for learning. You can focus on whatever it is. As we continue to learn about the practical application of this, there are ways this will become very beneficial in the future.”

In augmented reality, the headset overlays digital objects in the real world.

“It allows you to see the real world and see things over it that you actually can do and get a more realistic experience, so you can gain knowledge, as well as improve your skills and understanding of the topic without being in a dangerous environment,” Peevy said.

Gamification is the application of gaming mechanics to non-gaming environments and is used to increase knowledge and skills for specific industry tasks.

“The objective needs to be to gain new knowledge,” said Peevy. “You have the opportunity to apply this knowledge in a game and then practice your skills. You practice for accuracy and speed, and then when you apply that in the real world, you can be much more prepared, when done correctly.”

Peevy mentioned the value of video-based and online training as a means of engaging collision repair professionals. He suggested online training allows for an environment that’s “more engaging and more relaxed. It’s less formal, and it’s more relatable and relevant. The interactive branching approach assesses how much you know over a series of questions and then ultimately can move you from a mainstream course design into a more basic or challenging position; it can adjust itself. Wherever you start is not important.

ADAS: Here to Stay, Not Driving Away

by Rebecca Barnabi, glassBYTEs�com

“One of the most important things we try to convey [about calibration training] is the best practice, knowing your environment and really what the manufacturer needs or what that system needs to calibrate,” said Emily Jackson, marketing director of Mygrant Glass, during a special ADAS session held during Auto Glass Week.

Jackson said the company has eight hours a day to train each individual.

George Lesniak, director of sales and training at Autel Automotive Intelligence USA, emphasized training as well.

“There are so many important things when it comes to training, let alone ADAS training,” Lesniak said. “I guess the first thing is, ADAS training is not a one-and-done. It’s not something you do once, and you’re trained.”

According to Lesniak, individuals continue to learn about ADAS even after the official training period is complete.

“The best practices are what help you perform proper and accurate calibrations,” he added. “It doesn’t matter what equipment you use. If you’re not following instructions to the letter and understanding why you’re performing the calibration, it’s hard to do it accurately.”

Eric Newell, executive vice president of AirPro Diagnostics, said understanding systems and processes is also important for training.

“And understand, more importantly, the why behind the calibration,” he said.

Jackson cautioned installers should also be aware some systems are best suited to particular environments.

“Do not purchase on price,” she said.

Lesniak added owners and managers should not only ask themselves, “What should I buy?,” but also, “Should I buy?”

“ADAS calibration is not right for everyone,” he said. “I’ve learned that the hard way by selling equipOur goal is to bring everybody up to the same level, at your pace.”

Looking at technology’s impact on training content in the collision repair industry, Peevy stressed, given the speed of technological advances, I-CAR feels “the responsibility to work with the industry and collaborate with the industry to gain knowledge as quickly as we can. When a new technology shows up on the horizon, it’s our responsibility to explore and understand it. It may never go mainstream, but if it does, we’ll do our best to prepare the industry. We won’t wait for that technology to come to us.”

I-CAR is focused on providing relevant training for the many ongoing changes impacting the collision repair industry today and in the future. Peevy looked at some of the programs related to ADAS, EVs and I-CAR’s goals of figuring out “how we can do this differently, and we’ll continue to do that. We’d love to collaborate with anyone in the industry with interest or knowledge to share. We have this massive challenge that we all have to face with speed and momentum of change.”

Peevy encouraged collision repair industry professionals interested in collaborating on these exciting initiatives to contact him at Jeff. Peevy@i-car.com.

A replay of the July CIECAST is available at https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=yAkM0nbzrAk

The next CIECAST, scheduled for Aug. 19 at 2 p.m. EST, will feature Marc Friedman, chief strategy officer, and Shivani Govil, chief product officer, of CCC Intelligent Solutions, as they discuss “Activating AI and Network Connections.”

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ment to people who should not have calibration equipment.”

A company needs the technicians, location and equipment to perform calibrations properly.

Chris Guiterrez, director of technology and innovation at Protech Automotive Solutions, agreed with the other panelists but said a prequel to training exists.

“Know your audience, know where you’re at and know what you’re doing and know what you’re about to get into,” Guiterrez said.

He asked audience members to describe themselves. Do they mainly install glass, mostly interact with customers or do they work with collision centers.

“Your audiences are different. How you approach things is different. How you’re going to get into this whole thing is different,” he said.

Jacques Navant, technical director for frogitout and Don’s Mobile Glass and chairperson of the Auto Glass Safety Council’s (AGSC) ADAS Calibration Committee, said the committee is planning CE courses for shop owners, fleet managers, technicians and insurance providers.

“So we’ll be able to kind of take all the shade and shadows off of all things ADAS,” Navant said. “And really educate everyone involved.”

Bob Beranek, president of Automotive Glass Consultants, began in the industry in 1973 as a tech and is the AGSC’s AGRSS Standards Committee chair.

“Because ADAS is a major part of the automotive design of the future, we have to address it,” Beranek said “… we’re going to need to develop parts of our standard to address the issue.”

Navant said the industry keeps hearing the future is now. His son is about to start driving, and he will be operating vehicles maintained to the standards set forth by the industry now.

“But holistically as [an industry], we have a long way to go to catch up to the technology in these vehicles,” Newell said.