Responsible Driving Textbook
You can use the following materials in game, quiz or test fashion.
Chapter Quizzes
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
The Teen Driving Safety Research team at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has created free evidence-based teen driving safety tools for teens, parents, educators, advocates, policymakers, and primary care pediatricians. These teen driving safety tools are to be used to enhance teen driving safety and include fact sheets, videos, and educational curricula.
Roadside Survival Book
Author: Walt Brinker’s
Here is a thought when considering whether to teach Roadside Survival and how much priority it should have in a driver education program:
NHTSA estimates that 5.8 million vehicle crashes / accidents of all types occur annually in the US (average for 2005-2018). This compares with 30 million yearly calls for assistance to AAA alone; I know from experience that this number from AAA represents only a small fraction of total breakdowns. So breakdowns are at least five times as likely as crashes / accidents; likely this figure is much higher.
Safety implications are obvious: The safest breakdown is the one prevented so it doesn’t happen! The safest breakdown that happens is the one with minimum exposure to risks – normally a function of time stranded.
I agree that consequences from an accident generally are more serious than from a breakdown. But vehicle breakdowns, whose chances of happening are so much greater, usually involve inconvenience, lost time, discomfort, anxiety, and sometimes injury and death – when another vehicle hits one broken down and when human predators prey upon folks in a broken down vehicle. Injury also is possible when a stranded motorist tries to help himself but is neither trained nor equipped to do it safely.
Driver Education teachers may copy and use material from this PowerPoint file I use for presentations to driver education conferences around the country (all I ask is that users credit me as their source!)
The book is available at bulk rates far below retail; see the attached pricing schedule.
Teachers may prefer to not provide copies of the book directly to students and their parents. Instead, teachers may want to recommend the book and then distribute this flyer. You can print or as a file attached this to email.
http://www.roadsidesurvival.com/ adside-survival-flyer.pdf
With onset of widespread snow and ice in January, 2018, I prepared a 2-page listing of “Winter Driving Tips” which just could be an outline for a chapter in the future. Click to see attachment: Winter Driving Tips
Author: Walt Brinker’s
Here is a thought when considering whether to teach Roadside Survival and how much priority it should have in a driver education program:
NHTSA estimates that 5.8 million vehicle crashes / accidents of all types occur annually in the US (average for 2005-2018). This compares with 30 million yearly calls for assistance to AAA alone; I know from experience that this number from AAA represents only a small fraction of total breakdowns. So breakdowns are at least five times as likely as crashes / accidents; likely this figure is much higher.
Safety implications are obvious: The safest breakdown is the one prevented so it doesn’t happen! The safest breakdown that happens is the one with minimum exposure to risks – normally a function of time stranded.
I agree that consequences from an accident generally are more serious than from a breakdown. But vehicle breakdowns, whose chances of happening are so much greater, usually involve inconvenience, lost time, discomfort, anxiety, and sometimes injury and death – when another vehicle hits one broken down and when human predators prey upon folks in a broken down vehicle. Injury also is possible when a stranded motorist tries to help himself but is neither trained nor equipped to do it safely.
Driver Education teachers may copy and use material from this PowerPoint file I use for presentations to driver education conferences around the country (all I ask is that users credit me as their source!)
The book is available at bulk rates far below retail; see the attached pricing schedule.
Teachers may prefer to not provide copies of the book directly to students and their parents. Instead, teachers may want to recommend the book and then distribute this flyer. You can print or as a file attached this to email.
http://www.roadsidesurvival.com/ adside-survival-flyer.pdf
With onset of widespread snow and ice in January, 2018, I prepared a 2-page listing of “Winter Driving Tips” which just could be an outline for a chapter in the future. Click to see attachment: Winter Driving Tips
roadsiroadside-survival-flyer.pdfde-survival-flyer.pdf
