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A Shout Out: Help Stop the Carnage.(Column)
Byline: Dutch Mandel
Coming to your mailbox with a Sept. 4 cover date is a special AutoWeek issue we've been planning for some time. It focuses on teen driver's training and what is being done to address the real need for improvement.
Driving schools "get'' the need. Carmakers and insurance companies get it, too. Unfortunately, those who don't understand the mandate for improved teen driver's education are states whose diminishing educational resources are allocated elsewhere.
Meanwhile children die on our roads and everyone is outraged. Like parents-the unenlightened, ill-informed, inattentive, non-car people with offspring of driving age-who would as soon let some jamoke with a comb-over teach their children how to use a two-ton weapon.
Ludicrous.
I was reminded of this as my eldest boy skid, slid and learned at a Driver's Edge teen driving event held recently in Detroit. This mobile driver's training center for kids is sponsored by Bridgestone Firestone, Red Bull and other intelligent corporate do-gooders who, for more than one reason, value not killing off future consumers.
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Source: HighBeam Research, A Shout Out: Help Stop the Carnage.(Column)