Mar 10, 2015
The promise and the pitfalls of ever-evolving in-vehicle electronic devices, and their potential for distraction, were on full display last week in the pages of The New York Times. On February 23, the headline was “A Fight for the Dashboard”; the article... read more
Mar 2, 2015
For as long as I have been writing this blog, two constant refrains for parents of teen drivers have been, “Don’t put your own convenience ahead of your teen driver’s safety” and (quoting traffic safety expert Dave Preusser), “Don’t entrust your most precious cargo to... read more
Feb 23, 2015
In the past year, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), the organization that calculates and distributes safety ratings for most new and used cars, has issued several bulletins about “the best cars for teen drivers.” Their most recent bulleting is copied... read more
Feb 5, 2015
I have been remiss in keeping pace with Kathy Bernstein Harris’s excellent posts on her experiences teaching her teen son to drive. Here is her next installment:... read more
Jan 29, 2015
The federal government has released its final automobile crash data for calendar 2013, for all drivers and all categories (not just teens). I’m sure dozens of organizations are analyzing the data, but one set of statistics jumped out at me: from 2012 to 2013... read more
Jan 26, 2015
This past Thursday, Connecticut’s safe teen driving community gathered for a “Summit,” a gathering to update everyone on what is going on around the state, and to raise awareness with the hope of increasing collaborations. It had been five years... read more
Jan 15, 2015
Deborah Hersman, the new CEO of the National Safety Council, is one of the nation’s best analysts of the risks that technology poses to safe driving, not just for teens, but everyone. Prior to joining NSC, Ms. Hersman was head of the National Transportation Safety... read more
Jan 2, 2015
Happy New Year to my readers and visitors. Thank you for your continued and growing interest in and support of this blog. In 2014 we approached 30,000 visitors per month, and in 2015 we will be aiming even higher. I now also have a routine of sending most of my blog... read more
Dec 13, 2014
Kathy Bernstein Harris and the folks at National Safety Council took the lead in complaining to Apple CEO Tim Cook about a horrendous photo of multiple teens together in a car, as used in an Apple advertisement. A reformatted copy of the letter is below and the photo... read more
