CENTER FOR ADVANCED DRIVING AND RESEARCH Online Learning: Safely Navigating the Road Ahead

Online Learning: Safely Navigating the Road Ahead

Our comprehensive Parent and Teen Driving Program is designed to help families think differently about driving. At its core is one powerful belief: life has value, and driving must reflect that value.

Using our shared value approach, we help teens develop a purpose-driven mindset that aligns with the original purpose of the automobile, safe and efficient transportation. We teach families to approach driving the same way teens approach academics, athletics, and other meaningful pursuits, with preparation, intentionality, and commitment.

In our program, winning means Arriving Alive.

Program Goals

For Parents
Reduce fear, worry, and anxiety during the learning-to-drive process
Provide structure and tools for supervised driving
Increase confidence during the early years of solo driving
For Teens
Significantly reduce crash risk
Learn to become the Ultimate Control System of the vehicle
Develop proficiency, not just experience

Parent Program Highlights

The Parent Program equips families with knowledge and structure to guide teens through one of life’s highest-risk milestones. Topics include:

  • The history of U.S. driving culture and how policy shaped today’s safety outcomes
  • Understanding the teenage vehicle fatality epidemic and how it can be reversed
  • Adopting an infinite mindset around driving
  • Making the most of driver education
  • A structured 60-hour supervised driving lesson plan
  • Understanding vehicle safety technology and its limitations
  • Creating a Parent-Teen Driving Contract

Teen Program Highlights

The Teen Program builds mindset, mastery, and mechanical understanding. Lessons include:

  • Proper positioning and the GRIP Principles
  • Mental preparation for safe driving
  • Becoming the Ultimate Control System
  • Succeeding during supervised driving
  • Vehicle dynamics and car control
  • Safety technology systems and their limitations
  • The difference between experience and proficiency
  • Vehicle systems and maintenance basics
  • Establishing a Parent-Teen Driving Contract

A full program overview can be found HERE.