Wisconsin Department of Motor Vehicles - Parents Supervised Driving Program is new, exciting and providing information to every teen in our state.
Read the Road: Every Highway User's Guide to Driving Safely
Read the Road Book
Driving Lessons for Parents and Teens
In-car Lessons
State Farm's Teen Driving Safety
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teens. State Farm is committed to helping end these tragedies. We invite you to explore and use this comprehensive website, which is filled with free tools, tips, and resources designed to help teens and their parents throughout the learning-to-drive process.
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teens. State Farm is committed to helping end these tragedies. We invite you to explore and use this comprehensive website, which is filled with free tools, tips, and resources designed to help teens and their parents throughout the learning-to-drive process.
Download and print the Supervised Driving Log
to enter your 30+ supervised driving hours.
to enter your 30+ supervised driving hours.
Consequences of OWI(operating While Intoxicated) in a nice, neat flowchart
Teen Car Control Clinic
Teens and Parents are encouraged to take advantage of this program which teaches how to control a vehicle in various situations that contribute to teen crashes and death.
Teens and Parents are encouraged to take advantage of this program which teaches how to control a vehicle in various situations that contribute to teen crashes and death.
The LifeSaver app ends texting and driving by the ones you love … dramatically reducing distracted driving accidents by a full 23x.
- Keeping loved ones safer has never been simpler. The LifeSaver App on the phones of those you love ensures they’ll be safer on the road (and that you’ll rest easier while they’re away from home).
- Simple to set up
- Easy to use.
- Installs in seconds and does not interfere with normal smart phone functions.
- Safe and secure Allows Loved One to set guidelines and monitor behavior.
- Notifies when unlocked
- Sends text message notifications to Loved One if the Driver unlocks LifeSaver while driving.
- Rewards the right behavior
- Drivers can earn free rewards such as iTunes for safe driving behavior.
- Our patent-pending technology LifeSaver innovates with Smart GPS Consumption and Accelerometer-based driving detection.
University of Minnesota develops Smart Phone App for Teen Drivers
Trunk Junk: Emergency road items for your trunk
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The National Road Safety Foundation
For more than 50 years, The National Road Safety Foundation has created free driver education programs on distracted driving, speed and aggression, drinking and driving, and drowsy driving. For more information or to download free programs, visit www.nrsf.org
Teens Know Dangers of Driving and Cellphone Use, Yet Do It Anyway, Penn Research Shows
Media Contact:Michele Berger | [email protected] | 215-898-6751November 30, 2015
What happens when “Tom Hanks,” “Tom Cruise” and “Kesha” sit around a table? When the talkers are actually teens using researcher-requested pseudonyms they chose to anonymously discuss their driving habits, the results are surprising, maybe even more so than if the real celebrities got together.
Specifically, the 16- to 18-year-olds were examining distracted driving, one of seven such conversations that took place with 30 teens. “We like to think about it as driver inattention,” said Catherine McDonald, assistant professor in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing and in the Perelman School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics. “We think about inattention relative to their hands on the wheel, eyes on the road and mind on the task of driving.”
McDonald, who led the study and is also part of the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at theChildren’s Hospital of Philadelphia, along with Marilyn (Lynn) Sommers, the Lillian S. Brunner Professor of Medical-Surgical Nursing at Penn Nursing, conducted the focus groups during summer 2014 and then analyzed what they learned. They published their findings in the journal Traffic Injury Preventionand in October, presented them at the annual Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine conference.
Their ultimate goal, what they’re working on now, is to develop an intervention to keep teens safe on the roadways. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, car crashes kill more teens each year than anything else.
Before McDonald and Sommers could generate a solution, they first had to understand the teenagers’ perspective. “Teens think about what they do behind the wheel in very different ways than we think about teens behind the wheel,” Sommers said. “To hear what they had to say was absolutely enlightening.”
Two central points emerged: Cell-phone use and passengers. Though the former can be an issue for anyone behind the wheel, the latter was particularly poignant to this group, all of whom had been driving for a year or less.
Across the board, the teens said they understood the dangers of texting while driving, but they still engaged in the behaviors. Some teens said they didn’t do it — until the researchers dug a little deeper and found out what that really meant.
“The definition of ‘texting while driving’ is not the same for everyone,” McDonald said. “For example, in their responses the teens would indicate that they didn’t text and drive, but then later would say something like, ‘At a red light, I’ll check my phone.’” The interviewees made a distinction the interviewers hadn’t.
The data also helped them understand how teens differentiated between texting and social media use; checking Twitter, for example, wasn’t texting while driving. Neither was taking a passenger’s picture. Sommers called it a classification system, a continuum of sorts, whereby some actions are too dangerous to ever happen but others, though generally considered unsafe, fall into a grey area.
Context mattered, too, McDonald said. “Whoever was involved on the other side of that communication was relevant to whether they texted or talked [or did neither],” she said. For instance, a significant other or parent yielded often and urgent response, but a random friend did not. A question connected to the reason for driving, for example, from a person the driver was meeting, more frequently got a reply than did an unrelated query.
When it came to questions about passengers as distractors, McDonald said many teens balked at the very idea, until they discussed it among themselves. “We know that peer passengers greatly increase the risk for fatal crashes among teen drivers,” she said.
“Relative risk climbs with number,” said Sommers. “If you go from one passenger to two, you can just see the risk [increase]. There’s good science there. That’s clear.”
The challenge now is to generate solutions that incorporate ideas from the group that needs help. In other words, working with teens to increase the chance they’ll actually change how they act. Decades of research shows that issuing directives — do this, don’t do that — rarely works. Instead, “partner with them to get to the same end point, to keep people safe, to improve their health,” Sommers said, within parameters that fit their lives.
Media Contact:Michele Berger | [email protected] | 215-898-6751November 30, 2015
What happens when “Tom Hanks,” “Tom Cruise” and “Kesha” sit around a table? When the talkers are actually teens using researcher-requested pseudonyms they chose to anonymously discuss their driving habits, the results are surprising, maybe even more so than if the real celebrities got together.
Specifically, the 16- to 18-year-olds were examining distracted driving, one of seven such conversations that took place with 30 teens. “We like to think about it as driver inattention,” said Catherine McDonald, assistant professor in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing and in the Perelman School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics. “We think about inattention relative to their hands on the wheel, eyes on the road and mind on the task of driving.”
McDonald, who led the study and is also part of the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at theChildren’s Hospital of Philadelphia, along with Marilyn (Lynn) Sommers, the Lillian S. Brunner Professor of Medical-Surgical Nursing at Penn Nursing, conducted the focus groups during summer 2014 and then analyzed what they learned. They published their findings in the journal Traffic Injury Preventionand in October, presented them at the annual Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine conference.
Their ultimate goal, what they’re working on now, is to develop an intervention to keep teens safe on the roadways. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, car crashes kill more teens each year than anything else.
Before McDonald and Sommers could generate a solution, they first had to understand the teenagers’ perspective. “Teens think about what they do behind the wheel in very different ways than we think about teens behind the wheel,” Sommers said. “To hear what they had to say was absolutely enlightening.”
Two central points emerged: Cell-phone use and passengers. Though the former can be an issue for anyone behind the wheel, the latter was particularly poignant to this group, all of whom had been driving for a year or less.
Across the board, the teens said they understood the dangers of texting while driving, but they still engaged in the behaviors. Some teens said they didn’t do it — until the researchers dug a little deeper and found out what that really meant.
“The definition of ‘texting while driving’ is not the same for everyone,” McDonald said. “For example, in their responses the teens would indicate that they didn’t text and drive, but then later would say something like, ‘At a red light, I’ll check my phone.’” The interviewees made a distinction the interviewers hadn’t.
The data also helped them understand how teens differentiated between texting and social media use; checking Twitter, for example, wasn’t texting while driving. Neither was taking a passenger’s picture. Sommers called it a classification system, a continuum of sorts, whereby some actions are too dangerous to ever happen but others, though generally considered unsafe, fall into a grey area.
Context mattered, too, McDonald said. “Whoever was involved on the other side of that communication was relevant to whether they texted or talked [or did neither],” she said. For instance, a significant other or parent yielded often and urgent response, but a random friend did not. A question connected to the reason for driving, for example, from a person the driver was meeting, more frequently got a reply than did an unrelated query.
When it came to questions about passengers as distractors, McDonald said many teens balked at the very idea, until they discussed it among themselves. “We know that peer passengers greatly increase the risk for fatal crashes among teen drivers,” she said.
“Relative risk climbs with number,” said Sommers. “If you go from one passenger to two, you can just see the risk [increase]. There’s good science there. That’s clear.”
The challenge now is to generate solutions that incorporate ideas from the group that needs help. In other words, working with teens to increase the chance they’ll actually change how they act. Decades of research shows that issuing directives — do this, don’t do that — rarely works. Instead, “partner with them to get to the same end point, to keep people safe, to improve their health,” Sommers said, within parameters that fit their lives.