One enterprising High School is making road safety lessons more fun by employing Kart on the Wii. Vail Christian High School's initiative is called "distracted and drowsy driving project," and kids must try and steer in the game while text-messaging and the like.

"The whole focus of Vail Christian High School's traffic safety project is about distracted driving," enthused Kim Greene of the Vail Valley Medical Center.

"With the way Alli is driving, rarely on the road and often crashing into computerized cows, the program seems to be driving home the point."

The initiative makes cunning use of the steering wheel peripheral and quite frankly if we'd had Mario helping us learn road safety at a young age then we might be better drivers now. Maybe.

Thanks CVG.

By Luke Guttridge