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Get Under Our Big Tent.(Column)
Byline: Kevin A. Wilson
We're getting excited about the Aug. 28 AutoWeek Teen Driving Safety Summit, an event we developed in response to the overwhelming interest in our Sept. 4, 2006, special report on teen-driver issues.
Enthusiasm for this topic clusters in specialties. Researchers talk to researchers, insurers to insurers, regulators to regulators. Many automakers perform public-service roles, as do tire companies, car clubs and so on, but we're all doing so on our own, parochially rather than ecumenically. Everyone thinks it's important, but no one faction can solve the problem alone. We need to know one another.
We dreamed up the AW TDSS to bring all these folks under one big tent. Teachers, people from the Departments of Transportation and Motor Vehicles, law enforcers and lawmakers, parents and teens, academicians and enthusiasts. We may argue, but we need to hear one another before we can help solve the problem.
The day's program opens with an experienced and insightful regulator, Dr. Ricardo Martinez, a past NHTSA administrator and an emergency-room doctor who understands that reducing fatality statistics by the thousands ...
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