The adage “practice makes perfect” may not always ring true, but research from the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute provides new evidence that practice does make teen driving safer.
Published in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the study is the first to find statistically significant evidence that increased amounts of driving practice during the learner’s permit phase can help reduce crash and near-crash events for teen drivers.
By analyzing data collected by using four in-car cameras to monitor teens throughout both the permit and independent phases of driving, researchers found that teen drivers who practiced more had 30 percent fewer crash or near-crash incidents…