Familiarship With The Car & Daashboard
Before you start teaching your teen to drive, be sure to show them the details of the vehicle they will use for practice.
For certain, they’ll want the opportunity to dive in headfirst and cruise through the neighborhood. Baby steps, little ones! teenagers must take help of a well-versed Pass First Go Driving Instructors to enhance their driving capabilities.
The following are your options:
All dashboard features: cruise control, hazard lamps, wipers etc.
Mirror and seat adjustments
All lights, turn signals and indicators
How to adjust your steering wheel
How to check the fluid level and tires of your car
I suggest you print and save an online contract for your teenager to read and sign. This is the best time to talk about your expectations. Driving is an important responsibility. As parents, we want responsible, independent teenagers.
Starting And Breaking
You can take your teen to an empty garage. The bigger and better the parking lot,
Ask them to practice stopping at different speeds.
Every vehicle manufactured after 2018 is equipped with a backup camera or rearview mirror. You can use rearview monitoring technology in your vehicle to teach your teen how best to park. You’d be shocked at how difficult it is for teens to park (even in an unoccupied lot).
This is an excellent time to talk about blind spots. It takes time and effort to learn spatial knowledge while driving.
Lightly Traveled Residential Roads
Once your teen is comfortable with the basics of starting and breaking that they have learned in the empty lot, then let them drive around your neighbourhood (in circles if necessary).
From there, turn left onto residential streets. You should limit your speed to 45 mph. You can ask them to go back and forth until they feel comfortable. Because they know the route well, they will be less likely not to panic.
It is important that they practice stopping distances and look in all directions before going at a stop light or traffic signal.
Parking
It’s important to integrate parking practice into every single driving session for your teens. Parking is one of most stressful skills for any new driver.
Practice angling.
A list of places near you with maneuverability cones can be obtained by calling your local high school’s driving program or private driver school. I have three places within a 10 mile radius of my home where my teen could practice parallel parking.
To ensure cone spacing is correct for driving, bring a tape-measure with you to the maneuverability course. Cones will shift and move on site.
Light Traffic Road Trip
It’s now that you can venture beyond your residential streets. But don’t get too excited!
Start with a 30-40-minute session.
Ask your teenager to help you with your errands. That way, they’ll be able to handle more traffic.
Remember that your goal is not to overwhelm them. It’s to slowly ease you into more challenging driving situations.
City Driving
Once your teen is confident driving on residential roads you can start to move onto city driving. Your teen may feel overwhelmed by the sensory overload. Be patient. Allow your teen to drive in cities for several sessions.
You should choose areas that have different speeds and traffic flow.
Practice
Turns right and left
Parking on a busy road and then turning around to go back into traffic
Crossing busy intersections
School zones
Situations where you have to use the center turn lane
One-way streets
This will help your teen to understand how traffic conditions can change at different times.
Highway Driving
After your teen has mastered driving in high traffic areas, it is time to take the interstate. Simply put, increase speed!
Highway driving takes several sessions. Note that there are multi-lane highways, rural highways, expressways, and interstates.
This is a perfect opportunity to teach your teen how to use the GPS system that they will be using once they complete driver education. You can take a road trip to visit a family member.
The most important things to focus on are: getting into and out of a highway, paying tolls or blind spots, changing lanes, and maintaining a speed limit with cruise.
Night Driving/Inclement-Weather
Your goal is for your teen driver to be able to drive in many different situations. This will help them become more confident and safe. It is your responsibility teach them the skills they need to drive in their lives.
If it is dark outside, bring them along. They will be nervous at first.
Popular Mechanics also has some driving after dark tips to show your teen. You can ask your teen, for example, to wipe the windshield with a piece of newspaper before they go out on the road. You can easily remove the residue with a newspaper.
Keep an eye out for low and strong beams, their use, adjustments of rearview mirrors, weather conditions, and other road conditions.
Handling Emergencies
Check out what to do when you’re in an accident. Locate your insurance information.
This is an excellent time to begin looking into insurance options for your teen driver. Many insurers will allow your teen to be added to your insurance policy as soon as they have a temporary permit.