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News Release about a "Special School" in addition to Driver Education is making the news...
AND CAUSING quite the discussion around the country as Traffic Safety Educators come to grips with the "latest, greatest" addition to Driver Education. Here is how the cbsnews.com article starts out... Tough Driver Ed Could Save Teen Lives A few states have just increased the driving requirements for teens; Massachusetts is one of them. It's there that The Early Show consumer correspondent Susan Koeppen found a driving school that goes way beyond driver's ed. Some experts say that's exactly what kids need. Sixteen-year-old Tyler Hayes just got his driver's license and we wanted to see his skills first hand, so he and his parents agreed to let us put a camera in his car. While being taped, our camera captured him driving with one hand, talking on his cell phone and busy reading directions. Eighteen-year-old Sarah Semel and her parents also allowed us to record her every move in the car. While she took rides, our camera captured her chatting on the phone, driving with no hands and even putting on makeup. At one point, Sarah even covered the camera so we couldn't see what she is doing. We showed the tape to her father, Scott. Tyler's parents weren't totally impressed with his skills, either. "A little changing of the radio station, I believe," Tyler chimed in, laughing. "That's a lot of time to change a radio station," his mother, Nancy, remarked. Concerned that their kids didn't get enough out of their driver's ed class, Tyler's and Sarah's parents enrolled them in a special driving class. In Control Advanced Driver Training is a school that pairs teens with race car drivers. During the course, they do things like slam on the brakes going 60 mph, and they learn how to make emergency lane changes. "They should take a defensive driving class where they know how to stay safe, they can control the car at real world speeds, because the question isn't are they going to get into trouble, but when," warned Ian Wallis, co-founder of In Control Advanced Driver Training....(end of article is on link below) We hope that you take a moment and read and decide for yourself how appropriate this kind of "training" is for young drivers. Then we hope you take a minute to let the parents in your areas of influence know how you feel and what true Traffic Safety Education is all about.!To read this article in its entirety on the aol news site, click below; Use the back button to return to this page. |
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