by Tim | Mar 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
At a recent meeting of safe teen driving advocates and traffic safety professionals, I heard a new one: about parents having their teen drivers be their designated drivers, so they can drink at parties. Not sure what to think about this one. On the one hand, keeping...
by Tim | Mar 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
Newly-elected New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio is moving quickly on many fronts, and one of them is to reduce the City’s frightening number of pedestrian fatalities — 176 in 2013. DeBlasio’ s administration has issued a 42 page plan that is based on a Swedish...
by Tim | Feb 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago I wrote about the dangerous new trend of “selfies” – drivers taking a photo of themselves and then sending it, while driving. I guess I should not have been surprised that, where there is a photo app, there is a video app. Taking and sending a...
by Tim | Feb 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
No sooner had I posted about extending Graduated Driver Licensing to 18 and 19 year olds than the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch published an editorial describing — and criticizing — a proposal in the Ohio legislature to require driver training for 18, 19 and 20...
by Tim | Feb 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
Most teen driver laws, which are called “Graduated Driver Licensing” or “GDL” laws, apply to drivers under age 18. During the past ten years, most states have adopted some form of a GDL system, though state-by-state provisions vary widely. The basic theory of GDL...
by Tim | Feb 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Hollister family is pleased to announce contributions from the Reid Hollister Memorial Fund and the proceeds from the sale of Not So Fast: Parenting your Teen Through the Dangers of Driving. As described on this blog and the Not So Fast website,...
