My self Bob Ciasulli and I own numerous car dealerships in northern New Jersey. This is the second part to my tips on teaching your teen to drive. In part one, I gave some general advice to parents for teaching driving in a stress-free way. In that article I stressed having patience, staying calm and talking them through upcoming driving situations. In this second part, I will focus on some proven techniques for teaching good driving habits.
The first time your teen gets behind the wheel don’t assume he or she knows how to operate all the instruments. Go through how to everything works and let him or her adjust everything. Show him or her how to fill up the gas tank, check fluids, tire pressure, and even where and how to change a tire. This will help to make your teen much more comfortable behind the wheel.
The first time your teen drives, take them to a big empty parking lot. Let them use the lines in the parking lot to pretend they are on the road, making turns, keeping a consistent speed, stopping, starting, and using turn signals. Have them try parking, backing up and doing a three-point turn.
After you teen has accomplished parking lot driving to your satisfaction, take them out on a road with minimal traffic where the speed limit is no more than 35 miles per hour. Go through approaches to intersections, and making turns, especially left-hand turns. Tell them how to handle curves with a slow approach, gradual acceleration and proper lane positioning. Next teach merging and passing with the car under control.
After many sessions and lessons on lesser-traveled roads, move on to highways, but do this during non-rush hour times. Plan a routine that allows your team to practice getting on and off ramps numerous times. Also work on lane changing and passing, and discuss how to drive behind and around trucks and busses.
You also need to practice driving at night with your teen, emphasizing how much more dangerous it is to drive at night. Discuss driving in bad weather at this time too.
With patience and a lot of time, you can teach your teen good driving habits, and maybe refresh your own driving habits in the process.
Bio: Bob Ciasulli is the owner of numerous car dealerships in northern New Jersey, and Bob Ciasulli is interested in promoting safe teen driving habits. This second lesson on teaching teens safe driving is based on his own observations and government statistics.
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