How to Drive a Car | Insurance Rates for Teens are a Warning for Parents  Teens learning how to drive a car must learn to drive without texting.  Texting and reading texts is what teens do almost as a habit.  Some teens seem to be addicted to it.  But texting

Learn to Drive | NSC Helping Teens Learn to Drive  One way of helping teens learn how to drive a car is to use stories of other teens.  These stories are often of teens making fatal errors when driving a car.  The message that these tragedies provide is that teens must learn to drive

Learn to Drive | NTSB Promotes Teen Safety Measures Learning how to drive a car is learning to avoid distractions.  In 2010 there were 33,000 people killed when driving a car.  Distracted driving was attributed to 6,000 of those deaths.  To help teens learn to drive safely the NTSB is asking

Learn to Drive | Crash Prevention Training An excellent addition to your curriculum when learning how to drive a car is a crash prevention course.   This training helps prepare teens for emergency situations when driving a car.  Teens need to learn to drive in the safest possible manner so knowing what action to take

Learn to Drive | The California Start Smart Program Learning how to drive a car means getting a license and this opens a new world to young drivers.  Suddenly, the possibility of new destinations and experiences with friends are within grasp. But a teen driver lacks the experience that is sometimes needed when

Learn to Drive | Locking Your Car is Not Good Enough Learning how to drive a car is also learning about other aspects of the car’s use.  Often when driving a car we have items with us that are valuable.  And we think that since the car has a lock they are safe to be left in car.  Unfortunately

How to Drive a Car | Chose Safety Features for the Family Car Teens learn to drive a car using the family car.  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.  Since teens are the most at

How to Drive a Car | Ford’s National High School Safe Driving Tour For Teens learning how to drive a car there is good news from the Ford Foundation.  They have added 1 million to the Ford Driving Skills for Life (DSFL) program. The money is to expand the DSFL program to 15

How to Drive a Car | Hands Free Devices are Also Distracting to Teens When teens are  learning how to drive a car there is a lot to absorb about car safety.  Which means when they are behind the wheel there is a lot to think about and anything that distracts a young driver can be lethal. 

How to Drive a Car | Monitor Your Teen’s Driving Behaviour Among teens who are learning how to drive a car, there 6,000 deaths per year .  Distracted driving is becoming more of a problem as teens are being introduced to cell phones and texting at earlier ages.  Teen distracted driving has

How to Drive a Car |  High Tech Car Research As a young driver just learning the basics of how to drive a car some of the R&D happening today is not of any use to you.  But when you become a parent teaching your teen how to drive a

How to Drive a Car |  Advice from Tyler Presnell “I speak to teens (who are learning how to drive a car) and (adults with teens ) about driving a car safely. Also about how precious life is. I was the passenger in a car crash that almost took my life at the

Learn to Drive | Safety Devices Used by NASCAR New drivers just learning how to drive a car are the most vulnerable to being in a car crash.  Statistics show that half of the drivers under 20 will have a car crash before reaching 20.  And every year 6,000 teens in this

Learn to Drive | What to Do After a Car Crash When you learn how to drive a car the first year of driving a car is the most dangerous.   Statistics show that many teens have a car crash during their first year of driving a car and that many teens die from these crashes.  Handling

Learn to Drive | Safety at the Gas Pumps   As a new driver just learning how to drive a car you need to learn safety at the gas station.  Gasoline is very inflamable and since most gas stations require you pump your own gas you need to learn what is required to

How to Drive a Car | Teens with ADHD at Risk Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is having difficulty concentrating.  Teens just learning to drive a car must be able to concentrate 100% of the time.   Greg Fabiano, Ph.D., an associate professor at the University at Buffalo is conducting research into ADHD

Learn to Drive | Your Teen May Not Know They Have a Color Deficiency by Anne Marie Hayes When we learn to drive it is vital that traffic lights and traffic signs be seen correctly.  Studies show that 80% of what we learn is done visually.  Any impairment in our visual skills reduces how well we

Learn to Drive – Pennsylvania Legislators Get Failing Grade Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety has again ranked Pennsylvania among the worst states when it comes to safer traffic laws.  As teens learn how to drive a car it is essential that laws and enforcement work together to protect them.  Without the help of laws and

Learn to Drive | FORD DRIVING SKILLS FOR LIFE ANNOUNCES 2ND ANNUAL “BELT IT OUT” TEEN SAFE DRIVING SONGWRITING CONTEST Ford Motor Company Fund and the Governors Highway Safety Association are intensifying their effort to educate teen drivers as they learn how to drive a car.  It’s about the dangers

Learn to Drive | Ford’s MyKey System Limits  Teens’ Speed  As teens learn to drive there is new technology aiming to tackle concerns about safety of teens and assist parents in setting limits as teens transition to highway driving.  Parental controls are quickly making their way onto the nation’s highways. Ford has announced upgrades to