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Driving Safety
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A teenager with a car is one of those mixed blessings of parenthood: you may no longer be the on-duty taxi, but you'll likely replace drive time with a lot of fretting. There's good reason to worry. A dangerous combination of little behind-the-wheel experience plus a tendency to take risks and be easily distracted makes teens four times as likely to crash as drivers 20 and older; 16-year-olds are most vulnerable.
How to Teach Driving Basics
With stakes likes these, it's good to know there are steps you can take to keep your kids safer on the road. Experts warn parents not to rely on driver ed alone, but to take an active role in teaching skills over several...
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The Automobile Association of America (AAA) offers great guidelines to help parents navigate their way when teaching their teens how to drive. One thing they highly recommend is to graduate young drivers into driving in steps. The first step is to make sure an adult is in the car with a teenage driver for six months with a permit then a 50-hour supervised drive time including 10 of those hours in night driving. Also, they feel teenagers who drive with other teenagers in the car pose a greater risk for accidents because they are more likely to lose their focus at the wheel. They suggest keeping other teens out of the car for the first six months until the teen driver has a better idea of the focus it takes to operate a car. Finally, night driving should be kept to a minimum. Night driving is very difficult and until a teen has experience driving in the day, night driving should be off limits unless it is supervised.
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September 09, 2007
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