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Article: Driver education doesn't work. (Traffic Injury Research Foundation of Canada report results)
- Article from:
- Consumers' Research Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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The premise is simple. Teach teenagers to drive in a formal training program and they'll become safe drivers. Right?
Not really.
A good driver education course, emphasizing on-the-road driving, is an effective way to learn vehicle handling skills, but a new report by Daniel Mayhew and Herb Simpson of the Traffic Injury Research Foundation of Canada summarizes extensive international research showing driver education and training don't lead to lower crash involvement, compared with other ways of learning to drive.
This isn't the first study to question the merits of driver education. Once considered a rite of passage for high school students, ...