Steering Success
Welcome to Steering Success – your go-to resource for parents and young drivers. Here, we provide expert tips, practical advice, and insightful guides to help you navigate the road to safe and confident driving. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to refine your skills, our blog is packed with everything you need to become a better, safer driver.
Defensive Driving Courses For Teens – The Secret to Safe Teen Drivers
Why Defensive Driving Courses are Essential for Teen Drivers Have you ever found yourself feeling a bit anxious when your teen is behind the wheel? If so, you're not alone. Driving can be nerve-wracking, especially for new drivers. But guess what? There’s a fantastic...
Driving Tips for Beginners: Avoid Common Mistakes New Drivers Make
Ready or not, the day has arrived for your teenager to learn to drive. It's essential to approach this with patience and understanding. Remember, you’ve been driving for a long time! Drawing from my experience of coaching hundreds of new drivers, here are some...
A New Approach to Driver Training: The Best Way to Teach Your Teen to Drive
Over the last 30 years, technology has improved many aspects of our lives, allowing us to work, play, and learn in new ways. Surprisingly, there are still some areas that haven’t capitalized on technological advancements, and learning how to drive is one of them....
The Best Way to Teach Teens to Drive | Tips to Getting Started Driving with Your Teen
So it’s time for your teen to hit the road? For many parents and teens, this can be a stressful, scary endeavor, but it doesn’t have to be. Here are a few quick tips to help make getting started a bit easier and highlight the best way to teach teens to drive....
Essential Emergency Driving Tips for Teens: How to Handle Road Crises
Unfortunately, traditional driver training courses fall short in teaching skills for dealing with high-risk situations like emergency steering, skid recovery, mid-corner corrections, and panic braking. Because of this skill deficiency, most drivers aren’t prepared to...
Building Better Drivers – The Power of Simulator-Based Training
It’s been said that “your best teacher is your last mistake”. Unfortunately, when it comes to learning to drive, those mistakes can have severe consequences that stand in the way of learning. The beauty of simulator-based training is that it allows us to engage in...
Teen Driving Tips for a Safe Winter
We’ve all seen what happens out on the road when it rains here in the Bay Area, and it’s not pretty. In fact, 75% of weather-related vehicle crashes occur on wet pavement and 47% happen during rainfall*. With those stats in mind, and an El Niño forecasted to bring extra wet weather, here are a few tips for helping your new driver be safe out there this winter.
A Better Approach to Driver Training
Over the last 30 years technology has improved many things in our lives, allowing us to work, play, and learn in new ways. Surprisingly, there are still some areas that haven’t capitalized on technological advancement, and learning how to drive is one of...
