by Tim | Jun 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
The high price of gasoline is a push and pull, a double-edged sword, for teen driver safety. Teen driver crash rates have been declining modestly but steadily during the past several years. Undoubtedly, stricter Graduated Driver Laws and more attentive parents are...
by Tim | Jun 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
Two national news articles in the past few days promise even more problems with distracted driving. First, a major car manufacturer has admitted that its newest dashboard-mounted technology, a screen that allows Internet browsing and synchronizing with a mobile phone...
by Tim | May 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
Last month I was invited by the National Organizations for Youth Safety (www.noys.org) to participate in a four minute public service video on teen driving. The main purpose of the video is to promote NOYS’s safe teen driving website for parents,...
by Tim | May 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
Many of the statistics that government and non-profit agencies provide about safe driving in general and teen driving in particular confirm things we highly suspect or seem to know intuitively, and so it is with alarming new data issued last week at the launch of the...
by Tim | May 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
I suppose we all aspire to be part of something bigger than ourselves, but yesterday was, by any measure, an experience on a different level. I was invited by the National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS) to attend the launch of a ten-year international campaign...
by Tim | May 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
My last post commented on an article in The New York Times entitled “New Lessons to Pave a Road to Safety” (April 18, 2011, by Tara Parker-Pope), which spotlighted recent research on the impacts of high school starting times on teen driver crash rates. ...
