I'd been coming up with every excuse in the book to put off taking my 15 1/2-year-old to the DMV so he could take his permit test. Last week, the excuse well ran dry. Read More »

Vehicle crashes are the No. 1 killer of teenagers in America. Nearly 6,000 teens die annually in such accidents, according to the National Highway Traffic Administration. Read More »

Bridgestone Firestone will give winners of essay contest more than $20,000 in prizes in exchange for ideas on how to improve driver safety education Read More »

Driving Skills for Life, aimed at reducing the tragic number of teenagers killed annually in vehicle crashes, gets its 2006 program under way with an event for some 300 students from four Orange County high schools Thursday-Friday, March 23-24, at the Florida Auto Auction, 11801 West Colonial Drive, in the Orlando suburb of Ocoee. Read More »

The most expensive new car in the world, a Saleen S7 Twin Turbo, looks wicked and futuristic, costs $555,000 and has doors on each side that open skyward, giving the vehicle the look of a winged creature about to take flight. However, for $545,000 less, you can get that new car smell in America's least expensive new car, the Chevrolet Aveo. Read More »

The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety released an important new analysis of crash data involving teenage drivers. The surprising finding is that teen drivers are killing other people in much greater numbers than they are killing themselves. Read More »

Becoming a licensed driver for those under the age of 18 already required jumping through quite a few hoops. Just to get a permit to drive, a young driver must complete 30 hours of classroom driver's training, after which they must pass a written test. Once they have their permit in hand, it will be another six months before they can apply for a driver's license. Read More »

Graduated licensing laws in state after state are reducing crash rates among beginning drivers. Yet compliance with some provisions of these laws has lagged. For example, 32 states and the District of Columbia limit passengers in vehicles driven by teenagers with provisional licenses, but the beginners often don't heed this aspect of the law. Read More »

Well, it's time to break out the bottle of L'Oreal gray hair covering solution again. My middle son just turned 15 1/2 and another of my offspring will soon be behind a steering wheel. Read More »

Online survey gives parents insight to kids' attitudes toward safety on the road, just in time for holiday trips home from college. Read More »