There is nothing more terrifying than your kid piloting a few thousand pounds of steel at up to 65 mph. (Or more, when you’re not around.) That’s why we think a lot of you will totally get where Tom Bodett’s coming from in his latest blog post. Tom’s writing about a new philosophy in drivers’ ed …

"The teen driver whisperer" Sounds great, I’m game. Already taught two teens who are now 35 & 29. My dad taught my 35 year old daughter the manual transmission with a whisperer style and she absolutely loved her old Ranger pickup standard so much that after she rolled it and the replacement was an…

I started teaching my girls to drive when they were 6-7 years old. They started with the boat. Then the dune buggy and tractor. By the time there were 10 they were pretty good. My oldest could drive my road bike with me on the back at age 12. The youngest is now a pretty good off roader. There both …

I can say something about this from the kid’s perspective. When I was 14 or 15 or so, my dad would let me drive (always with him in the ca on country backroads, 25 mph dirt roads and the like, with little to no other traffic. Mostly it was roads going through orchards, and the only other traffic w…

George, you bring up a good point that most people don;t realize; your bike and your car follow your eyes. Look where you want to go, not at what you want to avoid. We used to call it “picking a line”. The tendency for your cehicle to follow your eyes is that reason rubberneckers so often veer towar…

My driver’s ed teacher, Tom Weaver, who was the football coach at my high school, was one of the best teachers I ever had. The first thing he did was teach us how to check the oil and change a tire (bear in mind the three of us were all girls). He also said one of the smartest things anyone has ev…

My sister is 4 years older than me and I remember when she had her driver’s permit must have been 1959 or so, I would have been about 11, we were on the back roads of Wisconsin and my Dad let her drive. He was co pilot, I was in the back seat. No seat belts in those days in our 58 Chevy wagon. Si…

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Whitey August 27, 2012, 7:24am 8

My father let me drive the lawnmower for practice too, but the one he bought didn’t have any brakes, and we lived on a large hill.

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