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Learning to successfully navigate America's roadways is like building a house: You need knowledge, skills and plans.
Without a solid foundation, you take a big risk each time you get behind the wheel.
Quality driving instruction provides the foundation you need for safe driving. Many states recognize the need for formal training and require driver education courses as a condition to obtain a full, unrestricted license. However, fewer than 50 percent of high schools offer driver training.
AAA Training Guides
- Teaching Your Teens to Drive
- Licensed to Learn
- How to Drive
- Responsible Driving
- Driver Improvement Program
More AAA Information on Driver Education:
AAA: Pioneer of Driver Education
Many people don't know that AAA pioneered formal driver education. It published the first course outline for high school teachers in 1935. It was called Sportsmanlike Driving. Now called Responsible Driving, the textbook is in its 11th edition, with more than a million copies sold since 1980.
Today, AAA is still a leader in developing driver education programs and materials. AAA publishes a wide range of textbooks and other tools for in-classroom training and at-home learning.
But AAA does more than publish books. The organization also is working to implement uniform standards for courses and instructors - standards that are based on common causes of crashes among teens. And government relations representatives at AAA clubs across America are working to pass better laws governing teen licensing practices in all 50 states.
Licensed to Learn
Here's a chilling statistic: Traffic crashes are the leading cause of death among 15- to 20-year-olds and are responsible for nearly one-third of the deaths in this age group.
AAA's "Licensed to Learn ... The Key to Safe Driving" is the most comprehensive program nationwide to curb novice driver crashes. The program focuses on three main areas:
- Raise awareness of teen driver safety issues.
- Mandate more behind-the-wheel driving experience for teens, and increase parental involvement in driver training.
- Implement a graduated licensing system in all 50 states to ensure teens are ready - before they receive full driving privileges.
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