The hardest part about being a parent is letting children go, hoping that they have absorbed all the information provided to them. There is not a time more scary than when a teenager comes home with his driver’s license.

Thankfully, the BMW Car Club of America Foundation formed the Tire Rack Street Survival school in 2002. This school is not just a boring lecture where teenagers sit in a classroom. The Tire Rack Street Survival school is "unique in that it offers students instruction in their own cars so that they learn the limitations of the car they drive daily."

Tire Rack Street Survival School

After the program was founded in 2002, there has been a steady increase of schools opening each year. Starting in 2004, with just a dozen or so events, Tire Rack Street Survival has grown and hopes to continue to do so. Streetsurvival.org stated "during 2009, 79 schools were held, training even more teenagers to become safe, responsible drivers – our goal for 2010 is 90 schools, from New Hampshire to California and Florida to Washington to Minnesota."