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last about a week with some students, but have lasting effects with others. They can be detrimental to some, and to others they are the most effective way the point gets across.
• Rote memorization is another tool. Get in, lock door, put the key in the ignition, adjust mirrors, fasten seat belts. This routine and other memorization aids are a must for beginning drivers, so that every time the driver gets in the vehicle, they project a safe driving environment.
• Simulated "drunk" goggles are a new tool used in driver's education. When students put them on they can't see straight, much less drive straight, which goes a long way in convincing students that inebriated drivers cannot see well enough to drive.
• Visits from law enforcement have been a staple of driver's education for years, but the message has changed. Thirty years ago when a South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper came into the classroom to about drinking and driving, he would say, "Kids, don't do it." Now the trooper tells the students if they are drinking and driving he's going to come looking for them, find them, and book them.
• Every individual is unique, each community is unique and there is no perfect formula to stop underage drinking and driving or to prevent teenage accidents.
• On an April Friday night in 1974, my 17-year-old kid brother was killed in an automobile accident, just south of Aberdeen. To this day I miss him dearly and wish he could be brought back.
• The goal of every driver's ed instructor is to prevent such tragedies by teaching teenagers to become responsible drivers, but driver's education is just a very short course without any guarantees. The process of creating good drivers can't start or end with driver's ed: All parents, educators and peers have a responsibility to work
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