Any advantage such as installing spot mirrors or adjusting the seat or the steering column provides an inexperienced driver with greater control over the vehicle. Other safety measures include making sure your teen wears a belt and should harness and looks both ways twice before pulling out onto the road. Have your teen practice braking on wet and dry surfaces. Check out the people your teens are driving with and the vehicles they are riding in. Finally, consider limiting the number of passengers to the number of seat belts in the car and restricting teen drivers from playing the radio loudly, eating or drinking in the car, or talking on the car phone.
Rural teens face additional challenges when driving on two-lane roads with narrow shoulders.
Curves on the road are not well marked, the roads themselves are not well lit and often have dangerous intersections at the bottom of a hill. Teens who have grown up on farms often have driver farm vehicles at an early age and tend to overestimate their driving skills. In Kentucky, on 20 percent of all teens complete driver's education. The value of drivers ed is that it exposes students to risky situations so they truly understand what the odds are when they approach an intersection or a four-way stop. Sometimes teens have a tendency to be more emotional than rational in their driving.