Mission

The Foundation for Safe Driving, Inc. (“Foundation”) was formed to save lives.  This is accomplished by improving the quality and availability of modern driver education curricula, research, and training.   The Foundation’s activities include research, education and training, charitable sponsorships, and communication purposes. 

The Foundation is committed to reducing the number of deaths, injuries, crashes and economic losses associated with motor vehicle crashes across the United States.  The Foundation’s vision is to save lives and prevent injuries by providing the research, curricula, training and awareness of the learned skill set know as SAFE DRIVING.  

Research by NHTSA shows that car crashes are the number one cause of teenage death in the United States.  These devastating and preventable incidents average a daily teen crash toll of 887 injuries and 22 fatalities, with daily economic losses exceeding $100 million.   At the cause of these crashes are inexperienced teen drivers who do not understand or exercise the learned skill set known as SAFE DRIVING and whose choices place them in circumstances that escalate their risks for crashes.  

The Foundation’s focus is to educate and train individuals to accept personal responsibility for their driving performance and make the life-saving decision to be SAFE drivers.  The Foundation encourages individuals to acknowledge that only the driver can decide to participate in life-robbing activities while behind the wheel such as cell phone use, driving under the influence, driving distracted, not wearing safety belts, speeding, yielding to peer pressure and other unsafe driving choices.

The Foundation will conduct research projects on specific traffic safety issues and threats, addressing those issues and threats that affect day-to-day lives and health of the motoring public,  both in current (Driver) and automated (Driver-less) vehicles. This research will be the basis for developing educational materials.  For example, these topics might include the number classroom and in-car hours vital for an ideal teenage driver education program, cell phone use, driving under the influence, driving distracted, not wearing safety belts, speeding, yielding to peer pressure and participating in other life-robbing activities conducted while driving.  

While the Foundation may express a point of view or set forth recommendations on a traffic safety issue, all publications will be written with a view toward exploring the broad range of approaches and solutions to complex public issues in order to ensure a full and open-minded presentation of the facts.

The Foundation will incorporate the results of its research into written materials that are accessible to members of the general public, as well as to grassroots leaders and policymakers.  

These materials will be advertised to the public to ensure that the general public is aware of their availability.  In addition, the Foundation will sponsor workshops/seminars on the results of the research for citizens and community leaders.  To promote understanding about traffic safety issues, problems and threats with innovative SAFE approaches, the Foundation will disseminate information from the research program into creating modern driver education curricula and providing driver education training to the general public.  The Foundation will sponsor educational presentations and trainings to present these materials in order to increase understanding and knowledge of the learned skill set known as SAFE DRIVING. 

The Foundation will sponsor under-served/under-privileged individuals for a portion or all of their driver training courses.  The Foundation will share its research and education materials with other educational or 501(c)(3) organizations. 

The Foundation will sponsor educational presentations and trainings to pre-school, elementary school, and middle school students to teach passenger safety, pedestrian safety, bus safety, bicycle, safety, occupant protection (car seats, booster seats, seat belts, etc.).  

The Foundation will sponsor educational presentations and training to pre-drivers to teach and model passenger safety, pedestrian safety, bus safety, bicycle safety, occupant protection (car seats, booster seats, seat belts, etc.), and prepare them to be SAFE drivers in the future.  The Foundation will sponsor educational presentation to current drivers to increase understanding and knowledge of the learned skill set known as SAFE DRIVING.