by Tim | Mar 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
There are some apps that purport to make teen driving safer, but I am not sure are effective. This category includes apps that claim to disable texting while a teen is driving. As readers of this space know, I liken that to giving a teen driver one piece of...
by Tim | Mar 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
Dear readers: I am headed to Chicago today for the Lifesavers Conference, the annual meeting of the national traffic safety community. Below is an excerpt from the flyer that we will be handing out about the publication of Not So Fast in Spanish in September 2015:...
by Tim | Mar 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
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...
by Tim | Mar 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
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...
by Tim | Feb 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
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...
by Tim | Feb 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
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: http://teensafedriving.org/blog/adventures-in-teen-driving-playing-chicken/...
