Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Question: How do you make a teen driver into a safe driver?
Answer: Rules. And plenty of them.
As it turns out, when parents make it clear what the rules of car operation within the family are, when parents don’t “give” a child a car to use but rather keep all vehicles for family use, they make their children into better, safer drivers.
I can speak from a personal experience in which rules were made and will personally attest to a lack of accidents on my part. I may well be one of a handful of people on the North American continent who has yet to receive a traffic ticket. Like, as in, ever.
It’s interesting, but even a few simple rules about cellphone use while driving, or even just curfew periods or prearranged destinations can make children safer while driving. And the safer the children are, the better off we all are.
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Cars have become safer by the day thanks to technology. And if there is one part of technology which deserves recognition, it is that of the safety that cars now carry. We have seen the birth of airbags and Antilock Braking Systems (ABS) and now the Electronic Stability Control (ESC).
How does ESC work?
The system detects the point when a car is about to go into a slide and applies precisely measured amounts of braking force to each wheel, so as to correct or prevent the slide.
It should be pointed out, however, that ESC is not a replacement for responsible and safe driving and those sentiments are shared by car insurance companies, including Saga. It will not be able to prevent all potential accidents, although research results are more than encouraging.
And with safer cars, car insurance claims diminish as well. This is because the probability of being caught in accidents have become lower thanks to these safety enhancements. And you can be assured that for the years to come, more safety features for vehicles will be coming out as well as car manufacturing companies vie for safer cars to distribute in the market.
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