Is there anything more terrifying than the idea of your kid piloting a few thousand pounds of steel? If you’re a teen who’s about to start driving, can you think of anything more fun than getting behind the wheel for the first time? The fact is, launching a new driver out onto the highways and byw…

If I had one catch phrase to tell a young driver, it would have to be something like “wisdom only works if you choose to use it”. My worst driving happens when I deliberately choose against wisdom and for emotion.

I taught my two daughters to drive, along with driver’s ed. The things I emphasized after the basic car control were: Parking lots are dangerous! Seriously, people and cars are moving in all sorts of directions and you need to be watching for them everywhere. The speeds are low, so the consequ…

I was very fortunate when my son was a teenage driver. He attended a military school for high school and took a driver training course while enrolled there. In the summer he lived with a relative and worked for the academy so I furnished a car. The military school experience helped him develop a s…

During your first winter with snow. You’ve got to learn to drive in snow. For the first year or even two the first snowfall can throw you for a loop with either a couple of skiddings or an accident. Winter is an aquired driving skill.

This is the best piece of advice I got while learning to helm (steer) a sailboat. It is not quite that same (boats don’t have brakes) but does still apply to cars. "If you can’t avoid a collision, steer to make it a glancing blow." To date I have not had to use it, while sailing. Cheers KiwiPhi…

I got my driver’s license in the late 1950’s. My family didn’t have a lot of money and we knew that. My dad put me in charge of taking care of the family cars. I learned how to do some of the easier jobs–replacing the generator, carburetor or fuel pump as well as routine maintenance. For problem…

Nope, if he was looking for oncoming traffic he was not looking where he wanted to go. The advice about looking where you want to go is mostly to do with avoiding “target fixation.” People can see some thing they know they want to avoid and will start to stare at that thing and the car tends to go…

My daughter, “Crash Cathy,” had 10 accidents before she was 18 years old. I couldn’t afford to send her to the Bondurant Teenage school, so I took her to a Porsche Club driving school (no, I don’t have a Porsche) for a two-day class. By the second day, she had her Contour sideways every lap coming o…

Either drive or text you do not do either very well the 2 together is an accident waiting to happen

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bxc4904 March 27, 2009, 8:37pm 17

My son totaled his ONE MONTH old car a couple of years ago (the car his mother and I went further into debt to buy him). He was making a right hand turn and rear ended the vehicle in front of him. His excuse? He was looking for on-coming traffic on the street he was turning on to. The advice? Teens should watch where they’re going, not where they want to go. Yes, everyone was okay and my son became intimately familiar with airbags.

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