STREET SURVIVAL

There’s no getting around it: Teenagers are pretty bad drivers when they first hit the road.

Most high schools don’t offer drivers-ed courses anymore, and some states don’t even have formal driver education requirements. In other states, new drivers older than a certain age don’t have to undergo training. Even those who receive all the necessary training in the classroom and behind the wheel may come out learning little beyond the basic rules of the road, and inexperience usually means those neophyte drivers are not prepared for real-life emergency situations.

That’s where the Tire Rack Street Survival school comes in, teaching students how to handle these scenarios and giving them the opportunity to put their knowledge into