Oct 15, 2012
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... read more
Oct 14, 2012
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... read more
Oct 1, 2012
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... read more
Sep 18, 2012
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,... read more
Sep 10, 2012
A reminder to parents about two topics I have posted about previously: wearing headphones, and using a GPS. I came across an article from the Canadian version of the Huffington Post, reporting on two separate incidents in which teen drivers were killed when they cars... read more
Sep 8, 2012
In my recent post entitled “Safe Teen Driving On The Front Page,” I reviewed a New York Times article that spotlighted teen driver passenger restrictions and vehicle decals, with a focus on New Jersey’s strict laws. As most newspapers do today, the... read more
Aug 27, 2012
Every so often I come across an article for parents of teen drivers that makes me grimace: well intentioned, but wrong. Today, with apologies to the organization that wrote it, I will explain why the advice given in a recent post is way off the mark. I will not link... read more
Aug 16, 2012
It is not every day that safe teen driving makes the front page of a national newspaper, but yesterday The New York Times featured a front page story, “Youth Driver Limits Curb Even the Double Date”,... read more
Aug 10, 2012
The folks at Auto Insurance Quotes were kind enough to send along a post from their blog, based on some of my past posts, that pulls together the “Eight Biggest Distractions Behind The Wheel” in a nicely illustrated article. The link is:... read more
Jul 20, 2012
A teen, at home, suddenly realizes that she is late — for school, sports, an activity, a community event, a family gathering, a date, whatever. She races into the kitchen, grabs the car keys from the basket, jumps into the car, starts the engine, and starts... read more
