by Tim | Oct 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
This post provides several national updates about safe teen driving: Writer Sharon Silke Carty of the Huffington Post /Autos@aol.com continues her excellent series about teen driving. If you have not visited, I highly recommend it. Her most recent article is...
by Tim | Oct 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
In 2008, Connecticut transformed its teen driving laws for 16 and 17 year olds from one of the most lenient in the country to one of the toughest. We tightened and lengthened passenger restrictions, increased the hours required to get a license, moved the nighttime...
by Tim | Sep 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
As regular readers of this blog know, for almost two years I have been plugging away at two recurring themes: even the most sensible and well-trained teen drivers make mistakes that lead to crashes, and driving school education for teens provides the most basic level...
by Tim | Aug 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
Ten days ago, eight football players in southern New Jersey got into an SUV after a morning practice, headed to a restaurant. The driver, who was licensed, was 17, and his seven passengers ranged in age from 15 to 17. New Jersey’s teen driver law prohibits...
by Tim | Aug 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Two ways to supplement a teen driver’s actual behind-the-wheel training time are simulators and high performance driving programs. Each has a benefit. If we conceive of driving as the experience of reacting correctly to the complex and rapidly-changing...
