1. Is young driver training a good or a bad idea?
Professor Frank P McKenna

2. What would we like to believe in road safety?
That there are clear safety benefits of driver training

3. Driver training – no effect
Brown, et al (1987);
Mayew et al (1998);
Vernick et al., (1999)
Christie, (2001);
Mayew & Simpson, (2002);
Ker et al., (2005);
Christie, (2007);
Helman et al (2010)
Kinnear et al (2013)

4. Speculations on why Driver training does not have safety benefits
Not enough emphasis on safety skill set
Overconfidence
Skill can be used for different purposes

7. Relationship between confidence and violations

8. Crash involvement (Maycock 1991)

9. If you are to encourage younger driving then
1 you need clear driver training benefits and 2 extra large driver training benefits to overcome the age disbenefit

10. There are no clear and substantial driver training benefits therefore
Young driver training may increase the proportion of young driver accidents

11. Warnings that young driver training may increase risk
Robertson & Zador (1978)
Robertson (1980)
Vernick et al (1999)
Roberts et al (2001)
Mayhew (2007)
Pressley et al (2016)

12. Options with an evidence base
Increase supervised experience
Reduce exposure to high risk