by Tim | Oct 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
The AAA Foundation has recently published several excellent and important reports on teen drivers with passengers. I will talk about their most recent piece on passengers, “Characteristics of Fatal Crashed Involving 16- and 17-Year Old Drivers with Teenage...
by Tim | Oct 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
The October 13 edition of The New York Times contains an outstanding essay about how car crashes have affected the lives of President Obama, Mitt Romney, Vice President Biden, and several past presidents and candidates. The link is below. I absolutely love the last...
by Tim | Oct 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
As we begin National Safe Teen Driving Week, I begin a multi-part series about a unique aspect of Connecticut’s teen driver law. In 2008, the Connecticut legislature, based on recommendations from a statewide task force on which I served, transformed the...
by Tim | Oct 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
Faithful readers of this blog, I think, would agree that one of my recurring efforts and themes is to make parents aware of aspects of teen driving that are less than obvious — that is, just below the surface of our consciousness, and therefore not realized or...
by Tim | Sep 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
During this past summer, as auto manufacturers rolled out 2013 models, dozens of articles appeared describing their new “connected car” features — dashboard mounted screens synched to smart phones, console cradles for iPads, handwriting recognition,...
