Russ Rader
Russ Rader
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When you have a teen passenger in the vehicle with a teen driver, the risk of a crash is twice as high. If you have two or more teen passengers in a vehicle the risk can be five times as high.
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There are a lot of these technologies in the offing and it's still too early to know how beneficial they're going to be.
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You can never repeal the laws of physics, and a smaller, lighter vehicle is always at a disadvantage no matter how many safety features are built into it.
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Most truck and SUV bumpers are purely decorative.
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Obviously, a Pontiac Firebird is generally going to be driven in a much different way than a Honda minivan,
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We had a very difficult time working with Burger King,
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There are two things working against young drivers: inexperience and immaturity. To the extent that you can give teens more time to develop their driving skills and the judgment to counteract their lack of experience the better.
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There are more rollover deaths now than there used to be. And that's entirely due to more SUVs on the road.
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Yes, men drive more, but our studies show that they're by far the riskier, more dangerous drivers.
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SUVs are absolutely not a good choice for a teenager, ... The bottom line is you don't have to buy a tank to get good safety.
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It is important that parents enforce strict rules about driving: no nighttime driving, no driving around with friends in the car. These are the riskiest situations.
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There is a misconception that older drivers are somehow a menace out on the road, and that really is not borne out by the facts. Thirty-year-olds kill far more people on the roads than 70-year-olds.
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We look at this from the standpoint that the more parental involvement the better because too many teens end up driving in risky situations, even with graduated driving laws in many states.
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Typically rollovers represent a small percentage of crashes but are disproportionately high in the number of deaths because they're so lethal.