How to make your teen a better driver

I came across an interesting article on MSNBC titled "Study: Extra training helps teens avoid crashes" that says that teaching teens how to avoid crashes will make them safer drivers. Imagine that. By teaching teens how to react in emergency situations, we're making them better drivers. The article goes on to say that trained students have a powerful advantage over untrained drivers when it comes to out-of-the ordinary situations such as adverse weather conditions or erratic drivers.

When we send our teens out on the road, we hope and pray that they've learned enough to know how to react in situations. The problem is, they don't. They lack experience and most have only been trained on the basics of driving - how to start, stop, move the vehicle and park - not what to do if someone or something swerves in their lane or their tire blows out.

Simulation-based driver training shows teens how to react in these situations over and over again in a safe, controlled and supervised environment so that when they do encounter a situation, they know firsthand how to handle it. Will this type of training help decrease our teen driver fatalities each year? The study says "YES".

To read the study, click here.