1. A driving simulator for assessing and improving driving skills comprising: a computerized audio/visual device programmed to: display an interactive driving simulation presented through four active visual zones from a driver's-seat perspective comprising (1) a driver's forward view, (2) a rear mirror view, (3) a left side mirror view, and (4) a right side mirror view, wherein the driver's forward view includes a combined representation of a driver's side window view, a windshield view, and a passenger's window view, and wherein the rear mirror view, left side mirror view, and right side mirror view each simultaneously depict a scene occurring simultaneously with the driver's forward view; display movement of an object moving through one of the four active visual zones and one of two inactive zones representing a left blind spot and a right blind spot; track the location of the object in the active visual zones or inactive zones; display a graphic multi-zone screen, wherein each zone of the multi-zone screen represents one of the driver's forward view, the rear mirror view, the left side mirror view, the right side mirror view, the left blind spot, and the right blind spot respectively; display a prompt to identify the zone of the multi-zone screen in which the object was located at the time the interactive driving simulation was stopped; determine if a response to the prompt was correct; and determine a response time to the prompt.