Dec 18, 2013
On December 14, the one year anniversary of the Sandy Hook shootings, the Hartford Courant accorded me the honor of publishing the lead op-ed article. The link is below:... read more
Dec 14, 2013
I am pleased to pass along information from the AAA Club of southern New England about their 2014 video and poster contest: The AAA 2014 Traffic Safety Message Contest is now underway. Students in grades K-12 are encouraged to create a video or a poster to promote... read more
Dec 10, 2013
Nelson Mandela is being praised around the world for his work in overcoming apartheid and promoting integration and understanding among racial groups, but he also has a legacy in traffic safety. His great -granddaughter Zenani was killed in a car crash in South... read more
Dec 9, 2013
The article linked below, which was tweeted by the National Safety Council, is an excellent summary of the risks involved when drivers start send or read text messages while their foot is on the brake and the vehicle is stopped. The problems include not paying... read more
Dec 2, 2013
Seven years ago today, Reid left us too soon. For a long time — in fact, until recently — I regularly counted the weeks and then months and then years that had passed since that cataclysmic day. I suppose I was trying to defy the passage of time by... read more
Nov 30, 2013
I have been asked by the Century Council and its IKnowEverything program to submit a series of guest posts. Here is the first one!... read more
Nov 29, 2013
I am going to call a technical foul on Subaru for its recent TV commercial entitled “Stick Shift.” It shows a father instructing his teenage son in how to drive a stick shift, while the boy’s twin brother sits in the back seat. The car lurches... read more
Nov 24, 2013
I am pleased to share the link below to a guest post of mine that was published yesterday by the Huffington Post. HP is doing a month-long series on distracted driving by all drivers, not just teens. From the link below you can jump to other guest posts and videos on... read more
Nov 19, 2013
What keeps me going with this blog and the promotion of Not So Fast? Emails like this one, from a mother of a new teen driver: “I just finished “Not So Fast” and printed out the Model Teen Driving Agreement. Last month, my son flipped our vehicle... read more
Nov 10, 2013
As much as I try to keep up with changes in technology that affect driving, so I can integrate the latest developments into my advice to parents of teen drivers, I will admit to sometimes feeling, and being, behind the curve. And so it was when I received a press... read more
