What are the factors required to train a safe driver?
What are the factors required to train a safe driver?
There are four elements which must be included in every driver training course to produce a safe, responsible driver.
1. Maturity. There must exist, within the construct of an effective program, a method for assessing the young driver's maturity. Since teenagers are often too immature to handle the responsibility inherent in possessing a driver's license, all driving courses must provide a method for evaluating maturity level.
Teenagers begin maturing at different ages and at different rates (several months or years). State mandated driving courses are insufficient in length and scope to adequately asses this critical area. No one but a caring parent can effectively asses the maturity level of a young driver.
2. Proper Attitude. Driver training must be able to impart the proper attitude and disposition toward driving. Parents are best equipped to transmit proper values through guidance and oversight by establishing rules, guidelines, and measuring points designed to have a long-term positive constraint on commonly displayed, high-risk juvenile behavior.
Juvenile-behavior experts continue to agree that parental involvement is the single greatest factor in reducing the potential high-risk activities and attitudes of our nations young people including drivers. It is simply impossible for a “certified” instructor to adequately address this critical area of driving safety.
3. Extensive Experience. Teenagers need extensive behind-the-wheel training before being allowed to drive solo. Studies reveal that teenagers need 50 hours or more, or between 3 to 6 months of intensive training before licensing. Since the average state mandates only 6-8 hours of behind-the-wheel instruction, once again, it is the parent who will actually train the driver.
4. Skill. An effective evaluation process must exist to measure the student's safe-driving skills throughout the training and a requirement for passing a stringent evaluation standard should exist before a student is released from the program. Most state driving test can be passed with little demonstrated skill and proficiency on the part of the new driver. Therefore, only an involved parent who is in touch with an effective evaluative process can release a proficient driver to the road.
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