{"id":24923,"date":"2025-05-28T20:35:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/home\/?p=24923"},"modified":"2025-05-28T20:35:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:35:41","slug":"more-practice-hours-lead-to-safer-teen-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/home\/more-practice-hours-lead-to-safer-teen-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"More Practice Hours Lead to Safer Teen Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-blockquote uagb-block-e7eb3fc3 uagb-blockquote__skin-border uagb-blockquote__stack-img-none\"><blockquote class=\"uagb-blockquote\"><div class=\"uagb-blockquote__content\">A new study from Virginia Tech reveals that more practice hours during the learner\u2019s permit phase dramatically reduce crash risks for teen drivers. The findings emphasize the importance of supervised driving experiences to improve safety outcomes for novice drivers.<\/div><footer><div class=\"uagb-blockquote__author-wrap uagb-blockquote__author-at-left\"><\/div><\/footer><\/blockquote><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-space-between is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b0ffac9c wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><div style=\"font-size:16px\" class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-post-author\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-author__name\">The University Network<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-social-share uagb-social-share__outer-wrap uagb-social-share__layout-horizontal uagb-block-ee584a31\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-social-share-child uagb-ss-repeater uagb-ss__wrapper 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capturing data through four in-car cameras, the researchers monitored 82 teens across both their learner&#8217;s permit and first 12 months of independent driving phases over a span of 22 months from 2011 to 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They found that teens who underwent more practice had 30% fewer crash or near-crash incidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> \u201cTeens that practice driving, especially in a variety of environments, throughout their learner\u2019s permit stage help reduce their crash risk and improve safety outcomes once they are out driving on their own,\u201d lead author Charlie Klauer, a research scientist at VTTI and an associate professor in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, said in a news release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study unveiled that teens with greater supervision faced 12 crash or near-crash events per 1,000 hours of driving, compared to 17 incidents per 1,000 hours for those with less supervision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The importance of varied and extensive practice was also highlighted, revealing that girls with less diversified driving practice had a higher rate of critical safety events than boys. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further, teens sharing a family car exhibited fewer risky behaviors in comparison to those with their own vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This collaborative research, conducted with Johns Hopkins University and TransAnalytics Inc., underlines how enriched supervised driving experiences in diverse conditions \u2014 such as nighttime driving and unfamiliar terrains \u2014 foster safer independent driving for teens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite these findings, a troubling trend persists: many teens do not meet Virginia&#8217;s required 45 hours of permit-phase driving. Such insights make the promotion of thorough driver education and parental engagement ever more critical. As crash fatalities involving young drivers rise \u2014 5,588 deaths reported in 2023, marking a 4.2% increase from 2022 according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) \u2014 the urgency to bolster safer driving practices could not be clearer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study ultimately asserts that enhancing driver education programs and urging policymakers and parents to prioritize supervised driving is imperative to augment the safety of novice drivers. 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