The following New York State schools, BOCES, and higher education institutions have been approved to operate a Driver & Traffic Safety Education course as part of. They will learn - as Miss Phillips learned during her 30-minute drive through the Upper East Side -that darting pedestrians, aggressive cabbies and bus drivers give no special consideration to the student driver. Even so, as the school season approaches, hundreds of New York City teen-agers will begin driver training courses at public and private high schools. A third of New York State's 16- and 17-year-olds live in New York City, according to census figures, but less than a tenth of the 82,000 youngsters in the state who had junior driving licenses last year lived in the city, according to the State Department of Motor Vehicles. This traditional rite of passage for American teen-agers is especially hazardous and quirky in New York City, but also somewhat less urgent than elsewhere because subways, buses and cabs give young New Yorkers a mobility not available in the suburbs or in cities like Los Angeles and Miami. With Arthur Mintzer, her driving instructor, sitting to her right and Rana Dershowitz, another student, in the back seat Miss Phillips was deep into the process of learning to drive an automobile. And the Manhattan rush hour was just beginning when Kim Phillips, a teen-ager, started the engine of a tan Toyota on East 89th Street and drove west.
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