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Teen drivers are four times more likely to crash, on a per-mile basis, than older drivers, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. They are notorious for taking stupid risks and being overconfident about their driving ability.
orleans hotel and casino "Parents say one thing, and then do something different," says Brandon Dufour, the general manager of All-Star Driver, a driving school headquartered in Watertown, Conn. "Starting at about age 11 or 12, your child is paying attention to your driving habits and noting consciously or subconsciously all those things you do ."
Two-thirds of surveyed teens say their parents live by different driving rules than the ones they expect their kids to follow, according to research in 2012 by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Students Against Destructive Decisions . Among respondents, 91% reported seeing their parents talk on a cellphone while driving, 88 percent observed their parents speeding and 59 percent said their parents have sent text messages while driving.
Brad Ault, the president of the Florida Professional Driving School Association and Ault's Driver Education Center in Englewood, Fla., says he hears parents tell teens it's all right to drive five miles per hour over the speed limit because "everybody does it."
A speeding ticket for even 5 mph over the limit can affect your car insurance premiums, says Penny Gusner, orleans hotel and casino a CarInsurance.com consumer analyst. "One minor ticket could go either way," Gusner says. "But two tickets -- even if they are both minor -- are a pattern that will scare your insurance company."
Before modern brake systems were developed, drivers were told to pump the brakes orleans hotel and casino to prevent them from locking up. But most cars today are equipped with antilock brakes, orleans hotel and casino making pumping unnecessary, says Casey Carden, a regional chief instructor for the Southeast for the Skip Barber Racing School in Braselton, Ga.
Antilock brakes are designed to prevent your car from skidding when you use them in an emergency. For a vehicle without antilock systems, Carden advises letting up on the brakes slightly, rather than pumping them.
Looking over the hood ornament doesn't give the driver enough scope. You should look farther up the road -- one to two intersections ahead -- in the city and as far as you can scan in the country, Fife says.
You might have been taught to hold the steering wheel in the 10 and 2 positions, envisioning the steering wheel as a clock. But that advice became outdated when airbags were developed, Ault says. Today, driving orleans hotel and casino instructors generally tell drivers to hold the wheel at the 10 and 3 positions, avoiding an explosively deployed airbag.
Many states require classroom and behind-the-wheel instruction for teen drivers orleans hotel and casino to get licensed, but most don't require driver education for new drivers or place restrictions orleans hotel and casino on them once they reach 18. Fife says some families put off letting their kids drive until  they're 18 so they can skip all those pesky requirements in place for younger orleans hotel and casino teens.
But new drivers of any age can make mistakes from inexperience and lack of instruction. If the licensing age rises to 18 without the proper safeguards in place, Fife says, the crash rate for 18-year-olds will increase.
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Or you can have mega traffic,just going along with it,but apparently STILL not fast enough for azzwipes passing multiple cars,ducking in and out of the left turn only lane. Where they going? There's cars everywhere during rush hour. No matter orleans hotel and casino what they do,they're still only going redlight to redlight,just as fast as they can. Great killer of their MPG tho.
Guess nascar needs more drivers? Plenty of wannabes out there if they do.      25      4 Replies ( 1 ) Hide replies Report Spam Previous replies     Write a reply... SpeedyGonzales-_- Jul 9, 2013 1:32AM
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Well that was my rant, just felt like I had to get that off my chest, for all you people saying that speeding is the problem.      37      18 Replies ( 5 ) Hide replies Report Spam Previous replies     Write a reply... Jess122458 Jul 8, 2013 11:55PM They should explain to people in the South that it is not ok to drive drunk and it is also not ok to never use turn signals, They are used to signal other drivers that you are going to turn like a warning.      21      13 Replies ( 0 ) Hide replies Report Spam Previous replies     Write a reply... YakYak24 Jul 9, 2013 5:43AM The article orleans hotel and casino shows parents know the right way to drive but choose not to. I thought it was ignorance to the law. The worse problem on the road is the monkey see monkey do mentality. As a retired truck driver I've seen thin