47 episodes
The Daily Drive: Educating Parents and Teen Drivers Ford Driving Skills for Life
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- Kids & Family
Welcome to The Daily Drive, a podcast from Ford Driving Skills for Life that delves into teen driving safety tips and instruction. This podcast will also highlight community awareness campaign ideas and personal stories of tragedy that have led to advocacy. We’ll have conversations with the people who work to keep teens safe on the road every day. People like traffic safety experts, parents, teens, and professional driving instructors.
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Episode 47: Adapting peer-to-peer programming during COVID
Purnima Unni and Dr. Irving Zamora with Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt worked tirelessly this school year on the 'Be in the Zone - Turn Off Your Phone' (BITZ) teen safe driving initiative. They conducted BITZ virtually this year and what we really want to know is, how did they do it? How did they adapt to make this initiative successful during COVID? Tune in to this week's episode to find out!
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Episode 46: Ford Driving Skills for Life announces 2021 hands-on training events schedule
If you are a fan of the Ford Driving Skills for Life award-winning hands-on driver training events (and who isn't?!) be sure to tune in for a welcome update on the 2021 season! Here's a teaser:
It's official! We're back! This year the Ford Driving Skills for Life FREE hands-on training clinics for newly licensed drivers will be taking place in
Anaheim, Oceanside and Sacramento, California
Houston and Dallas, Texas
Atlanta, Georgia
Nashville, Tennessee
Phoenix, Arizona
We're starting in Southern California and registration is now LIVE Register here https://drivingskillsforlife.com/training/hands-on-training
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Episode 45: Summertime and the 100 deadliest days for teen drivers
This Thursday we're throwing it back to June 2020 when we spoke to Governors Highway Safety Association about COVID restrictions, summertime, the 100 deadliest days for teen drivers and parents modeling safe driving behaviors.
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Episode 44: Know the signs. Work zone safety
You've seen the cones, the signs and the workers out there making our roads safer and more efficient but, do you really know the hazards of highway work zones? Do you know what you can do as a driver to keep yourself and those workers safe? Join us for a conversation with experts from Texas A&M Transportation Institute and the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) on this very topic.
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Episode 43: E-scooter safety tips, trends and new tech
E-Scooters are a terrific way to get around ubran areas. They are environmentally responsible, inexpensive to rent and a better alternative to heavy traffic. But, they come with a responsibility to Share the Road and share it safely. Join us for a great conversation with Spin about E-scooter safety, trends and new technology.
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Episode 42: What should I do if I have a tire blowout while driving?
Ever wonder what to do if you're driving and you have a tire blowout while driving? Are you ready to control the car if that happens, and do you know what to do next? This segment of 'What Should I Do?' on The Daily Drive aims to answer those very questions!
Ever wonder what to do if you're driving and you have a tire blowout? Are you ready to control the car if that happens? Do you know what to do next? Teen driver Josh will get some answers for you in this segment of 'What Should I Do?' on The Daily Drive.
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