Adding a teen driver to your car insurance can raise rates. And handing your teen the keys to the car can raise your level of stress. Get dependable, affordable teen auto insurance with Nationwide auto insurance discounts. We’ll help you learn how to teach your teen to be a safer driver.
Auto Insurance for Teen Drivers
Decision Making
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Understand How Teens Think Behind the Wheel
Help teens learn to make better driving decisions.
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Train the Teen Brain for Safer Driving
Learn how distractions may cause teen drivers to lose focus and make mistakes.
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Teen Drivers and Lack of Sleep
Sleepy drivers respond more slowly, resulting in more accidents.
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Location, Distance and Speed
It takes time for teens to learn how to judge proper distance, location and speed.
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Peer Pressure
Peer pressure may greatly influence teen driver decisions behind the wheel.
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Problem Solving
Practice problem-solving skills with your teen driver.
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Why Teens Take Risks
Teen drivers need to learn how to control impulses and understand consequences.
Practice Driving
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Help Teens Drive Better in Bad Weather
Teach your teen driver how to handle skids, hydroplaning and more.
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Tips for Teen Drivers: Before You STARTUP the Car
Use the STARTUP acronym to help teens remember safe driving tips.
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Bicycles on the Road
Help teen drivers learn how to share the road with bicyclists.
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Teach Teens to Maintain the Lane
An inability to maintain lanes is a top cause of teen crashes.
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Entering and Exiting Freeways
Get tips to help teens learn how to enter and exit freeways.
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Following Distance
The 3-second rule can help your teen driver with following distance.
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Be Aware of Your Surroundings When Driving
Safe teen drivers need to search their surroundings for potential obstacles.
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Teens and Night Driving
Practice nighttime driving with your teen. Nearly 40% of teen crashes happen at night.
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Passing and Changing Lanes
Use these tips to help your teen driver pass and change lanes more safely.
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School Zones, Crosswalks and Railroads
Make sure your teen driver is cautious in these busy and dangerous areas.
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Speed, Braking and Backing
These complex driving skills require practice and timing.
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Teen Parking
Encourage your teen to practice parking in different situations.
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Turning Basics
Make sure your teen driver can demonstrate precise left and right turns.
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What to Practice
Get on the road to help your teen become a safer driver.
Role of Parents
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Coaching in the Car
Learn how to be an effective driving coach for your teen driver.
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Components of GDL
Graduated driver’s licenses require teens to drive with restrictions.
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Easing Restrictions
When should you consider easing restrictions? Here are some good guidelines.
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Parents of Teenagers
Get tips on how parents can be partners, instructors and managers in the car.
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Using Driving Agreements
Draft a written document that defines restrictions, privileges, rules and consequences for you and your teen driver.
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What is a GDL?
Get details on the components of a graduated driver’s license, required in many states.
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Agreement Components
Learn the different components that make up teen driving agreements.
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Be a Good Partner
The first step to being a good partner is being a good driving role model.
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Be an Instructor
It's important that you and your teen make time to practice as much as possible.