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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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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These vehicles are among the cream of the crop for mid-sized cars in terms of safety performance.
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Once again, these tests show the importance of side-impact bags. In a head-on crash you have the entire front end of the vehicle to crush and help protect you. In a side crash, there's very little there to absorb the impact, so you are much better protected with side air bags.
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Fatal crash involvements for 16-year-olds fell 26 percent from 1993 to 2003 as states began to enact graduated licensing laws. But this has not solved the problem by any means. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers. The later they start driving, the better.
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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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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.