The first 12 months of driving are the most dangerous in a person's life. This is not due to a lack of motor skills, but a lack of mental modeling. A veteran driver can "feel" when a car in the next lane is about to drift before it actually happens; a novice driver sees only what is directly in front of them.
According to data from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), the presence of even one teen passenger increases a novice driver's crash risk by 44%. This is the "social distraction" factor. The transition from a "permitted" driver to a "licensed" one is a move from supervised safety to total accountability. The goal of early driving shouldn't be "getting there," but rather building a library of near-misses and observations that eventually crystallize into the "sixth sense" of a seasoned operator.
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