How to Drive a Car | Avoiding a Back-Over Accident Driving a car requires taking responsibility for others who may be hurt by the car.   Parents need to teach their teen how to drive a car safely and how to be proactive especially around kids who do not know the danger of being

How to Drive a Car | Avoiding a Rollover Learning how to drive a car is also about learning how to keep your car in control and not only about avoiding other cars.  Several manoeuvres you practice as you learn to drive are to give you practice in keeping the car in control. 

How to Drive a Car | What to Do if You Get a Flat Tire Learning how to drive a car includes learning about fixing and maintaining your tires.  Tires wear out or can be damaged by driving over a nail.  This will cause the tire to lose air and

How to Drive a Car | Checking Your Tires Learning how to drive a car includes learning about checking tire pressure.   A small leak in a tire gradually cause air to leak out.  This will make your driving control unstable.   Since this is a common occurrence when driving a car it is important to know check your

Learning how to drive a car includes learning about checking coolant.   A small leak in a cooling system when driving a car will cause the liquid to leak out.  This will cause your car to over heat and can damage the engine.   It is important to know how to check your coolant and replenish it.  Your

How to Drive a Car | Checking Your Oil Learning how to drive a car includes learning about checking your oil.   A small leak in your oil system when driving a car could cause oil to leak out.  This will cause your engine to run dry of oil and severely damage the engine.   It is important to know how

How to Drive a Car | Distractions from Passengers As you learn to drive a car you’re going to be sitting in the driver’s seat.  Then you’ll begin to understand how focused drivers need to be.  If they’re distracted for just a few moments, bad things can happen.  Passengers can cause a distraction

How to Drive a Car | Graduated Driver License (GDL) Learning how to drive a car will probably be regulated by a Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) program.    The GDL program where you learn to drive may have different restrictions than other areas.  But know that driving a car under the provisional permit has many more restrictions than a

How to Drive a Car | Seat Belts Save Lives Learning how to drive a car includes learning about wearing seatbelts.   Most areas have laws about wearing  a seatbelt when driving a car.  Know that even a small crash when driving a car can cause severe injuries when not wearing a seatbelt.  It is important

How to Drive a Car | A Car is Not a Bike With 4 Wheels A car is not a bike with 4 wheels, so a few spur-of-the-moment trips around the parking lot won’t do to teach your teen how to drive a car.  As a start they need a driving school so they

How to Drive a Car – The Wrong Car for a Teen Driver Teens usually learn how to drive a car using the family car and it is the family car that they use during their GDL period and when they start driving a car by themselves on a full license.  But even after getting a full license teens

How to Drive a Car | Teen Drivers Need More Sleep to Stay Safe A danger for teens learning how to drive a car is drowsy driving.  Their internal clocks are out-of-whack.  That results in teens driving a car when they have not had enough sleep.  Teens need to learn to drive only when they

How to Drive a Car – Reflexive Driving Skills No Teen is Really a Safe Driver As you learn to drive watch the news any evening and you’ll quickly realize that driving a car is dangerous for everyone.  Any ‘typical’ outing in a car can change in an instant.  And when that happens, there’s no

Learn to Drive | Ellen Degeneres  and Teaching Driving A good start when you learn to drive is taking driving lessons.  Many schools however provide less than 8 hours of driving practice behind the wheel.  To learn how to drive a car safely requires over a 100 hours.  Parents must supplement driving

Learn to Drive – Summer is the Most Dangerous Time for Teen Drivers Last year in North Carolina, 139 teens were killed in car crashes.  The highway patrol is pulling out all stops to keep teens who are learning to drive safe . Highway Patrol targeting teen drivers June 04, 2010 4:29