Driver Safety Quotes

NASCAR stepped up their safety concepts, and I think the drivers feel NASCAR is doing everything that can be done. So we are a little behind NASCAR in that respect. Someone in NASCAR realized there were certain things that could be done to make it safer. The same thing has to happen in football.

You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driver’s ed? What’s up? I still haven’t been to driver’s ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can’t see how driver’s ed is really helping them out.

Companies need to weed out drivers who dont drive well or have got poor ratings from the customers.

I look at safety as, you know, there's active and passive. Passive is how do you survive a crash. Active is accident avoidance. And so that's real-time information to you, as a driver, and to your car, to the wheels of a car that will get you out of a bad situation.

YI teamed up with the Allstate Foundation to basically inform teens why it's important to drive safe. I feel I'm new on the road, so it's important to do these three main things: The first one is buckle up, the second one is slow down, don't speed, and the third one is don't let your friends distract you in the car.

When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.

I'm not a big fan of self-driving cars where there's no steering wheel or brake pedal. Knowing what I know about computer vision and AI, I'd be pretty uncomfortable with that. But I am a fan of a combined system - one that can brake for you if you fall asleep at the wheel, for example.

Pedestrians never seem to realize that they are a threat to the safety of cars.

Since I started driving in F1 in 2006-07, the cars have got slower and easier to drive.

The helmet has a special meaning for many drivers. How important is it to you? - It protects my head.

A smart car is not just about giving you information, but it is also about keeping you safe.

I have a truck team for a reason.

When I was racing, we were more used to seeing some horrific accidents. For example, Michael Schumacher is a great world champion, but I haven't seen a weekend where he doesn't go off the circuit. At every race he always has a spin or runs through the gravel trap. He usually doesn't hit anything, but nevertheless it is an error that could not have been made in the days I raced.

As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible.

My car is so bad, I hit poles I'm not kidding I hit things all the times, I hit bushes it's really bad.

We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat.

We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road.

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

Dale was just trying to get third. Maybe he was thinking that he could get a run on everyone coming out of Turn 4. But the race was over. Junior and I had pulled away, so there was no need to block. That always hurt me when people said he was blocking for me, because it almost felt like it was my fault that he died. But I don't think that anymore.

[Formula One racing looking after Jackie Stewart in 1968] was not so intense and, yes, it was much more dangerous - what was definitely different back then was the level of safety.

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.

Your body can't switch off tired. People fall asleep behind the wheel all the time.

I think the speed limit should be increased by 20 km/h on every single road - that would save me so much money.

Of course texting while driving is a terrible idea.

Instead of letting the driver-base grow organically, we are setting up driver-training schools across different districts in the country.