The economy has been hitting families and small buisness all over and now there is a far greather impact on young adult lives. DMV just realesed some scary stats to the driving school association of California DSAC.  Provisional application for license have dropped to an alltime low of 13% of elgiable applicants recives their license befor turning 18 years of age.  That is a drop for a high of 84%. This impact have resulted in an increse of 18 year old young adult license without any formal drivers education or drivers training.  The crash rate among those have increase 8 times more than 16 year old with formal training.  This is a direct impact of a combination of finacial trubbles and DMV deregelation. Financial trubbles. We all know that the impact on families are tragic and the cost of training is a financial burden however it is still the lowest cost when you factor insurance cost, car payments and gasoline cost.  The average cost for complete training has gone down and is about $350-375 for classroom and in car training.  The yearly cost for kids involved in sports and new school year clothes are much higher and training is only a one time cost.  I still have people telling me that they can not afford the cost of training as the kid is standing there in front of me wearing new air jordan shoes and texting on a I Phone 4.  Reality is that people dont value the training that they recive because they feel it is imposed on them and most of them catagorize  training as a state requirment not a learning tool.  If the kid was failing in math most of them would hire a touter but if they fail in driving they are simply left unchanged. DMV deregulation. DMV started having financcial impact with fourlow days and budget cost and decided by one person alone with oposition from all experts in the field to eliminate the certificate of enrollment in drivers traing allowing teen to recive the permits without interaction with driving school in order to save the printing cost.  The cost of implementing the change far outweight the savings in next 3 years.  The impact immidiatly on driving schools where the enrollment went down by 60 % in an already down market.  Parent did not enroll kids because DMV did not make them.  DMV however indicated in small print on bottem of a form and on third page of a very confusing learners permit that they must take the first lesson with driving school before practecing at home.  We frequently have parents call telling us that the teen has been drining for 8 month at home and they had no knowlege of these regulation.  Why should they not think that since DMV handed them a permit they could not let them drive.  DMV is giving them the tools to break the law.   Now in conclution the DMV Challange Team 6 board is getting together composed of all intrest parties me included to find out why teens are dying at an alarming rate and what we can do to change that.  I for one dont really thing they have any clue what they have already done to impact the teen and young adults death rate and collision stats.  It's an admistrative decition that the public have to endure and the cost of the collisions and lives impacted far outweighs the savings of a printed security blanket. Henning Mortensen   Owner, Bond Driving School   ...read more

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