Should driving age raised in to 18?

sparkscarz4

hell no because i am 15 and i just need 4 more months till i get mine.
also lots of young people need a car to get around so making it 18 will make us struggle even more.

Fly B

16 vs 18 really doesn't make much of a difference... .young people, new drivers, new experiences, excitement, all lead to bad things behind the wheel. If you want to stop teenagers from crashing their cars, up the driving age to 20. They aren't teenagers anymore!

If you want to get all sciency about it you can argue that the logical frontal lobe which plays the dominant role in risk-benefit decision making does not fully develop and therefore not significantly used until a person is in their late teens to early twenties. By that logic, someone who is 21 will be able to appreciate the dangers of driving recklessly better than a 16-18 year old... not because of experience... but because the 21 year old has a fully developed brain while the 16-18 year old brain is still in development.

Look up frontal lobe development if you're interested. On its own it is a very weak point... but maybe you can use it as part of your larger argument that teens statistically get into more crashes.

bmsdani208

No, because the problems with driving is people get excited, and drinking and driving. Adults still drink and drive (sadly), so it wouldn't make much of a difference to raise it a lot, and the excitement will always be there even if you start driving at 30.

Good luck!

UCANTCME

It should be raised.................

Teenage Driver Facts:

Deaths. Each Year over 5,000 teens ages 16 to 20 Die due to Fatal injuries caused Car accidents. About 400,000 drivers age 16 to 20 will be seriously injured.

Risks. The risk of being involved in a car accident the highest for drivers aged 16- to 19-year-olds than it is for any other age group. For each mile driven, teen drivers ages 16 to 19 are about four times more likely than other drivers to crash.

Stats. Teenagers are about 10 percent of the US Population but account for 12 percent all Fatal Car Crashes.

Costs. Drivers (both male and female) under age 24 account for 30% - $26 billion Dollars of the total costs of Car accidents in the US.

http://www.car-accidents.com/teen-car-accidents.html

Locksmith

no, it should be raised to 21, and then only if you can really prove you are a safe driver!

dirtytricksracing@sbcglobal.net

Every school in the world must use this every week yes it should at least to 18 ,20 would be better.

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