Find helpful information for newly licensed teens and their parents and learn the definitions of aggressive, distracted, and defensive driving.
Driver Education: Tips for Parents
- Tips for Lowering Your Teen's Auto Insurance Rates - Learn a few tips to help lower your teens auto insurance rates
- Tips for Teaching Your Teen To Drive - Learn tips for parents on how to communicate the importance of driver safety and the costs involved in driving.
- Parent Teen Driving Contract - A parent-teen driving contract helps you set the standards and rules for your household and your teens driving privileges.
- Teen Driving Facts - Important teen driving facts every parent should know.
- Prevent Texting While Driving - Textecution is a user-friendly application that completely disables texting while driving. Textecution is designed for parents to install on their teenage driver's phone so they know their child is safer behind the wheel of the vehicle. Add immediate peace of mind, security, and safety today with Textecution.
New Teen Drivers
- Florida Learner's Permit Requirements - Find details and tips to help acquire your Florida Learners Permit.
- 5 Most Common Teen Driving Mistakes - Find tools for helping your teen avoid the five most deadly teen driving mistakes.
- Graduated Drivers License Laws - Learn the 3 stages for the Florida Graduated Drivers License Laws.
Driving Tips
Distracted driving occurs when a driver focuses on any activity other than safe driving. Examples of distractions include:
- Talking or texting on a cellular telephone
- Talking to passengers or dealing with children
- Reading a map or a newspaper
- Applying make-up or shaving
- Eating, drinking, or smoking
The National Highway Safety Traffic Administration defines aggressive driving as occurring when "an individual commits a combination of moving traffic offenses so as to endanger other persons or property." Examples of aggressive driving include:
- Speeding
- Tailgating
- Running red lights or stop signs
- Weaving in and out of traffic
- Following too closely
Defensive Driving means driving in such a way that you do all you can to prevent a crash.
Defensive drivers:
- make sure they are physically, mentally and emotionally ready to drive
- follow road rules and obey all signs and signals
- give other drivers the benefit of the doubt
- change their driving to fit weather conditions and the actions of other drivers, bicyclists, and pedestrians
- are alert, look for possible danger, and plan ahead to deal with potential problems
- put safety first
