Drive For Excellence
Statistics show that there is an average of 37 police-reported crashes per one hundred 16-year-old drivers. These are only the reported crashes. While our children may drive like angels while in the car with Mom and Dad, the reality is they probably do NOT drive that way when they are alone, much less with friends. A new program, Drive for Excellence, offers training for these teens and peace of mind for their parents.
Drive for Excellence is the brainchild of Lisa Dolliver, an upstate New York mother of three boys who was determined to do something to better the odds for teen drivers. Having been almost killed as a passenger in a car driven by an inexperienced teen driver while still a teen herself, Lisa’s goal is to educate teens and to spare parents the agony her own mother went through on that fateful night. It was later discovered that the teen driving the car had been pulled over multiple times before and had somehow managed to get away with warnings alone. Her parents never knew she needed help. Had they known their daughter needed more driving instruction, the outcome of that night might have been very different.
Drive for Excellence offers a two-pronged approach for teaching and encouraging teens to drive safely.
Driver-ZED3.0 DVD Simulation Software allows your teen’s first driving experience to be at home in front of his or her own computer. In this way, your teen can learn the correct and safe way to deal with one hundred different road scenarios in a controlled environment and not as a novice driver on the road where fear and other emotions could contribute to their reactions.
A Driver Monitoring Membership is also available. In this monitoring program, each car will have a bumper sticker with a unique ID Number assigned to it. By having this bumper sticker on the car they are driving, your teen knows that other drivers and/or witnesses can go to our site at http://www.DriveforExcellence.com and submit a complimentary report or a complaint for that particular ID number. The reports are then turned over to the parents of the teen bearing that ID Number.
