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Raise the driving age Keep the driving age
Debate Score:203
Arguments:73
Total Votes:246
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15fall driving age

Raise the driving age

Side Score: 92
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Keep the driving age

Side Score: 111
5 points

Also other than taking drugs and driving, teens also tend to text and drive. As you know, when you text you seem to be focused in your texting and not what you're doing, this also causes car crashes. On June 8, a report was released stating that Tennessee bus crash that left two young girls and a teacher's aide died last December was the result of texting and driving. Says http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/08/dangers-of-texting-and-driving-statistics n7537710.html. This is proving that texting and driving is still an issue. People should not have to be worrying while driving, but because of the amount of teens who text and drive, this is causing worrying to others.

Supporting Evidence: Texting and driving URL (www.huffingtonpost.com)
Side: Raise the driving age
21mhenning(4) Disputed
2 points

Teens do tend to text and drive, but a lot of them are smarter than to do that. There have been a lot accidents caused by teens who text and drive, but think of those who follow the speed limits and don't text and drive.

Supporting Evidence: Teens are Responsible (www.teenink.com)
Side: Keep the driving age
3 points

Another reason as to why the driving age should be raised to 18 is because people die. Even the drivers and passengers. Representative John D'Amico, who is a democrat for Illinois State Legislature states that, "On December 29, 2005, four teenage boys went out for a late-night drive and the car spun out of control and struck several objects including a giant light pole. A 16 and 17-year-old were killed and the driver was only 16 years old." This makes me think, should the driving age be raised?

Side: Raise the driving age
2 points
Side: Raise the driving age
3 points

The driving age should be raised up to 18 because more 16 to 17 year olds get into car accidents than any other age group. “Centers for Disease Control reported recently that traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for American teenagers.” These accidents are an entire ⅓ of all of the deaths between 16 and seventeen! 16 year olds have lack of experience on the road and have more deaths on highways than any other age group. The reason this is is because their inexperience and low maturity levels prove that they are not ready to drive yet. There are so many teens in this age group that run red lights and drink way too much while driving. Those are the things that get people into accidents.

Supporting Evidence: Link (docs.google.com)
Side: Raise the driving age
3 points

I think the driving age should be raised to 18 because, younger drivers can cause accidents because of lack of maturity. A tragic incident happened with four boys and a 16 year old driver. Two boys were killed, when the car spun out of control and hit a giant light pole. This shows that the driver, clearly not old enough to drive the car. This example shows that at the ages 16-17 you are technically not an adult, and your brain is not fully mature. Lack of maturity can cause problems with driving, When a young adult gets into a car, they could to get excited because it's the first time they are going to ride a car by themselves, and when the young adult has all his friends along, they tend to forget the importance of paying attention, they tend to forget what a car can do, if you mess up. This is true because, not many people go outside and worry about being killed, well the same is for a car, not many people get into a car and non stop worry about if they are going to crash. So when the young adult freaks out or forgets about the importance, it can cause a crash.

Supporting Evidence: link (docs.google.com)
Side: Raise the driving age
21mhenning(4) Disputed
2 points

You have a good point, but if the driving age would get raised to 18, the 18 year olds would lack two years of experience and would get into more accidents. It's not really about the age, but it's about how much experience the person has, and at 16 you would get two more years of experience.

Side: Keep the driving age
21kmayer(6) Disputed
3 points

You say that that the more experience you have at driving the better you get, and I am agreeing with this completely, but they also say that if you start driving at a younger age, it will give you more time to learn how to drive because you're doing it longer, so you will be better at driving than people who start late. But that's where I disagree. Yes you would be doing it longer, but learning how to drive may not the problem, it's the lack of maturity When a younger adult (age 16-17) gets their driver's license, this age, could actually prevent you from driving better because of lack of maturity.

Side: Raise the driving age
3 points

Another reason that I think the driving age should be raised is because 16 year old's get in the most accidents. According to Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 16-year-old drivers have more accidents per highway mile than any other age group. Also, between 1995 and 2004, there were 30,917 fatalities in accidents that involved 15-to-17-year-old drivers, according to a study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. About a third of those deaths were the teen drivers themselves. The rest were pedestrians, passengers, and people in cars that teenage drivers struck.

Supporting Evidence: Find the facts in this article (docs.google.com)
Side: Raise the driving age
3 points

According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, between 1995 and 2004, there were 30,917 fatalities in accidents that involved 15-17 year old drivers. Remember that this all happened between nine years! Only nine years. Now just think, how many more accidents will there be in the next nine years? In the past nine years?

Side: Raise the driving age
2 points
Side: Raise the driving age
3 points

Another reason why the they should change the driving age is because of safety reasons. “Teens have the highest crash rate of any group in the United States.” says www.aaafoundation.org this is proving that teens tend to crash a lot. And of course, crashing is a safety issue. You want to feel safe when you get into your car and drive to the place you're got to go, teen drivers can prevent feeling safe. Like I said teen drivers can crash because lack of maturity, but they could also cause a crash if they are taking drugs. It is illegal it be drinking while driving, but that does not stop some teens who still remain to do so. With teen drivers, you don’t want to risk getting into a car crash with them.

Side: Raise the driving age
21kmayer(6) Clarified
3 points

Here's the link for my claim about safety reasons (www.aaafoundation.org)

Supporting Evidence: www.aaafoundation.org (www.aaafoundation.org)
Side: Raise the driving age
3 points

The driving age should be raised up to 18 because 16-17 years olds are not ready to drive a car yet.

This age group shouldn’t drive a car yet because they are not fully developed yet. Sixteen and seventeen year olds really don’t know it yet but their reflexes, and hand-eye coordination skills aren't completely developed yet. This easily can lead to multiple accidents and is another piece of evidence to prove that the driving age should in fact be raised up to 18.

Supporting Evidence: Link (articles.mcall.com)
Side: Raise the driving age
2 points

I agree with Granger, 16 and 17 year olds are not as developed as 18 year olds. As I stated before with evidence from multiple websites, the brain isn't fully developed until like the early 20s. That could effect them with like the hand-eye coordination thing as Granger said, the brain not fully developed could cause many accidents. So why risk it?

(You wouldn't be smart if you risked it, just sayin'.)

Side: Raise the driving age
3 points

The driving age should be raised up to 18 because more 16 to 17 year olds get into car accidents than any other age group.

The Safe Teen and Novice Driver Uniform Protection Act said that there should be a three step process that starts out with a learner's permit when you are 16 and then that would lead up to full licensure. They think that that would be a good law for people. Doing this would decrease the number of 16 year olds being killed in car accidents every year. By increasing the driving age it would leave room for them to get more mature. Right now a lot of teens are on their phones talking or texting while they are in the car. So if the age was raised they could get a little more mature and realize that it isn’t smart to do those things in the car because it could be the decision between life and death.

Supporting Evidence: Link (docs.google.com)
Side: Raise the driving age
21tnytes(4) Disputed
1 point

I disagree with Granger, because if 16 and 17 year olds get into the most accidents because they are not mature enough driving, I think it will even more 18 and 19 year olds would die, because they just started driving and now they are entering the world of alcohol, and that will cause more drunk driving deaths.

Side: Keep the driving age
3 points

The driving age should be raised to 18 because 16-17 years olds are not ready to drive a car yet.

This age group isn’t ready to handle a car yet because of the things that distract them while they are driving. So many 16 and 17 year olds use their phone while they are in the car which is terrible because they might be texting and then the next thing you know they are lying in a ditch because they didn’t see a car coming. There have been campaigns to try and stop texting while driving but it is simply not possible to do that because you can’t stop everyone from doing it. So if the age was raised then the teens would have more time to learn about driving safely such as in classes or just more experience with a trainer. This would lead to way less car crashes for teens and make the roads safer for everyone.

Supporting Evidence: Link (articles.mcall.com)
Side: Raise the driving age
3 points

The driving age should be raised to 18 because there is no reason why young people should die if it could be avoided.

“As an Illinois lawmaker, I cannot sit back and watch more innocent lives be claimed because of lack of experience. Raising the driving age may seem burdensome to parents and busy teens, but we have to remember that this is a proposal about safety, not convenience.” —Representative John D'Amico

Democrat, Illinois State Legislature

This shows that there are too many lives being claimed by the lack of experience. Like I said above how the Safe Teen and Novice Driver Uniform Protection Act said that there should be a three step process. I think that this would also be great because the age would of which you could drive would be 18 but you could still technically drive at a younger age. The only time that you could drive would be with an instructor. This would give the drivers the experience that they need for when they drive by themselves. This would eliminate so many young deaths when driving. Like I said there is no reason why young people should die if it could be avoided.

Supporting Evidence: Link (docs.google.com)
Side: Raise the driving age
21tnytes(4) Disputed
3 points

I disagree with this because I think if people are saying teens are lacking experience, then there is no point to raise it because if you start at 16 then you will have more experience and know not to do stupid stuff in college because they will know driving is serious for longer.

Side: Keep the driving age
2 points

The driving age should be raised because 16-year-old drivers have more accidents per highway mile than any other age groups. The Center for Disease says, "Traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for American teenager, accounting for about a third of all deaths in that age group." Therefore, the driving age should be raised.

Side: Raise the driving age
MSanderfoot(3) Disputed
3 points

That may be true right now but that may be because of lack of experience so if they raise the driving age to say 18 then there probably would be more accidents per highway mile from 18 year olds.

Side: Keep the driving age
21alocke(3) Disputed
1 point

Well it doesn't matter the age it matters how good the driver is or it's how mature the driver is and if they are responsible.

Side: Raise the driving age
2 points
Supporting Evidence: Center for Disease (docs.google.com)
Side: Raise the driving age
2 points

I think they should raise they driving age because “According to recent findings, the human brain does not reach full maturity until at least the mid-20s.” As you can see in this quote, the brain doesn't fully develop, so I think that 16 year olds may cause more accidents whereas when you raise the driving age, I believe that there would be less accidents because the brain is more mature.

Supporting Evidence: Source (hrweb.mit.edu)
Side: Raise the driving age
1 point

Also there's another website telling you that "neuroscientists agree that brain development likely persists until at least the mid-20s – possibly until the 30s.”

Supporting Evidence: Source (mentalhealthdaily.com)
Side: Raise the driving age
3 points

Since April 20, 4,000 Americans were killed in automobile accidents and some of this may have to do with the fact that like Donglai said, their brain is not fully developed until the mid-twenties.

Side: Raise the driving age
21gfisher(3) Disputed
1 point

Although it is true your brain isn't mature until the mid-20s that has nothing to do with driving because if you are a good driver you are probably experienced and if you are a bad driver you probably aren't very experienced.

Side: Keep the driving age
21tnytes(4) Disputed
1 point

If the brain is not fully developed until the early 20's, it makes no difference to raise it to 18. Also if the driving age is raised to 18 drivers will not have as much experience and not know how serious driving really is, and maybe do stuff when they are fully mature.

Side: Keep the driving age
2 points

Raising the legal driving age might not solve all of our highway safety problems, but it can serve as a message to young drivers. The article, "Raising Minimum Driving Age is Modest Statement says, "The message being, handling several thousand pounds of automobile at highway speeds is serious business calling for a mature sense of social responsibility." You are responsible for your own actions in this world and maybe not being able to drive until later in life is a good thing.

Side: Raise the driving age
2 points

I think that the driving age should be raised because a lot of deaths have occurred from 16 year old driving and getting in car accidents. The Centers for Disease Control reported recently that traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for American teenagers, accounting for about a third of all deaths in that age group. If the driving age was raised we could maybe make the death number decrease.

Supporting Evidence: John M. Crisp's Article (docs.google.com)
Side: Raise the driving age
21kross(13) Disputed
1 point

I disagree with you, I think the driving age should not be raised. You say a lot of deaths have occurred from 16 year old driving. This is probably because they are inexperienced but if you raise the driving age and have the 18 year olds drive for their first time they are also going to crash. The death rate for 18 year olds will go up. This is just delaying your child’s death by 2 years. You may have gotten closer to your kid in those 2 years and now they have died at 18. How does raising the driving age to 18 help the death number for teenagers decrease?

Supporting Evidence: A.J. Rox (docs.google.com)
Side: Keep the driving age
2 points

I think they should raise the driving age because younger people are just not mature enough. They may still not know the outside world responsibilities from what I've noticed. Unlike 18 year olds, they aren't really adults yet, they may just go and party with friends whereas 18 year olds knows the responsibilities and knows the consequences. Also unlike 16 year olds, they still kind of rely on their parents, their parents can pay. But 18 year olds are adults, again. And they know the consequences.

Side: Raise the driving age
2 points

Okay now the U.S doesn't let 16 year olds drink but guns and smoke, but they let 16 year olds start driving! It's like really, what the heck? Dang, I mean it's just weird to me, they don't let 16 olds buy guns, drink, or smoke but they can drive a car that is a way bigger potential to lead to death than those three. Not only death to the driver but to other people, whereas drinking and smoking have a little potential to get some sickness or liver cancer, and only guns can be a bigger problem. Just think about it, isn't the Government crazy?

Side: Raise the driving age
2 points

Okay now the U.S doesn't let 16 year olds drink but guns and smoke, but they let 16 year olds start driving! It's like really, what the heck? Dang, I mean it's just weird to me, they don't let 16 olds buy guns, drink, or smoke but they can drive a car that is a way bigger potential to lead to death than those three. Not only death to the driver but to other people, whereas drinking and smoking have a little potential to get some sickness or liver cancer, and only guns can be a bigger problem. Just think about it, isn't the Government crazy?

Side: Raise the driving age
2 points

Why risk it?

Representative John D'Amico once said "I cannot sit back and watch more innocent lives be claimed because of lack of experience." Now in this text, you see that John heard about many young teens dying from car crashes, so why risk it. I mean it would be a tragedy to see your own son or daughter die just because she have enough experience driving, look at that, what a young and innocent kid dying because of some dang old car crash. It doesn't make sense. I mean like I'd rather not risk more 16 and 17 year olds dying and just raise the dang driving age. It makes perfect sense, think about it.

Supporting Evidence: Source (docs.google.com)
Side: Raise the driving age
1 point

I think the driving age should be raised because a 16 year old is not mature enough. For example, John M. Crisp states in his article, "Raising minimum driving age is modest statement", is raising the legal driving age to a national standard going solve all of our highway safety problems? Certainly not. But it might serve as a message to young drivers, that handling several thousand pounds of automobile at highway speeds is serious business calling for a mature sense of social responsibility.

Supporting Evidence: John M. Crisp's Article (docs.google.com)
Side: Raise the driving age
6 points

“The majority of parents have to take their kids to other activities; they don't have time to chauffeur their kids around.” Says the article Driving Age Should Not be Raised. If they raise the driving age who will get all these young adults to school dances and dates? Their parents? We all hope it won't turn into that… Akward …. Young adults will not be able to get themselves to work, this could lead to a shortage of workers in fast food restaurants, and kids not learning how to work hard. This will affect America for the worse.

Supporting Evidence: Driving Age Should Not be Raised (docs.google.com)
Side: Keep the driving age
6 points

Age shouldn’t matter. Maturity should.

"I know others may say that when you're 18-years-old your brain is more developed. Yes that is true, yet your brain is not fully developed until your early 20's." States a article by A.J Rox. That article also states, "The fact of the matter is driving is based on experience and being able to make good choices." So my question is if they are mature why does it matter if they are 16 or 18 if there brain doesn't even fully develop until 20?

Supporting Evidence: Driving Age Should Not be Raised (docs.google.com)
Side: Keep the driving age
21akalk Disputed
3 points

You say that age shouldn't matter, maturity should. Although that could be true, according to recent findings, the human brain does not reach full maturity until at LEAST their mid-twenties! Therefore, the driving age should be raised because as you said maturity matters, we are not fully matured until mid-twenties.

Side: Raise the driving age
5 points

Just like maturity should matter, you can also get more mature from starting to drive at a younger age. On www.debate.org someone stated that,

"Teenagers will get more mature and responsible this way and they will have more experience now that they have started driving, also most teens have jobs which they have to go to and not having license to drive would become nuisance to them."

Also I believe that most teens take their driving license as an achievement and wont over use this privilege by speeding and others stuff, but will be safe on the roads.

Supporting Evidence: www.debate.org (www.debate.org)
Side: Keep the driving age
4 points

I think we should not raise the driving age because when you are 18 is when you start drinking heavily says https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l4BYvxsz8 ah7nFVm27wjLhiq6uvPGX93kjsnPlaHA/edit#

. So if they start driving when they are sixteen they will realize driving not as a game but more as a responsibility.

Side: Keep the driving age
6 points

Yeah I also agree with that because an article on Driving Age Should Not be Raised states, "The fact of the matter is driving is based on experience and being able to make good choices." So if you make good choices and have experience and know what you're doing it doesn't matter if you're just 16.

Supporting Evidence: Driving Age Should Not be Raised (docs.google.com)
Side: Keep the driving age
4 points

The driving age shouldn’t be changed because the kids who are really excited about getting their license but when the driver's age goes up there will be madness and kous and protesting would come and do you know the people who will be doing all that stuff 15 year olds, 16 yrs, 17 yrs, and adults would be mad too because they will have to drive there kid to high school every morning and have to pick them up until their fourth or third or second or first year of high school.

Side: Keep the driving age
21awelch(5) Disputed
1 point

Yes, but parents already have driven their kid to school every day when they were in elementary and middle school or they rode the bus to school. Who's to say a couple more years will matter?

Side: Raise the driving age
21dduan Disputed
1 point

Blah blah blah, yeah many people are excited for their driver's license, but just think about the safety. Think about how many teens died. For example "an article by —Alex Koroknay-Palicz stated that “between 1995 and 2004, there were 30,917 fatalities in accidents that involved 15-to-17-year-old drivers.” Look at this! Would you rather have 16 year olds just wait two years before death potentially may strike them from some other young teen. Also about the adults transporting their teen to school, you could just have the bus take you, or go carpool with a nice friend's parent. Rethink it.

Supporting Evidence: Link (docs.google.com)
Side: Raise the driving age
4 points

Also Who will drive the kids to dances and sporting events. Because if kids go to college and did not date in high school then they will date in college and get in the way of the most important schooling in their life. from https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l4BYvxsz8 ah7nFVm27wjLhiq6uvPGX93kjsnPlaHA/edit#

Side: Keep the driving age
4 points

Studies show that males brains aren't fully developed until the early 20's, so shouldn't we just not let all men drive until then? I say no because when they will have to bike everywhere, and in some places biking can be very dangerous. Also if they are over 21 and they just got their license they are influenced by alcohol and they will not know the seriousness of driving, resulting in more drunk driving deaths.

Side: Keep the driving age
4 points

A study from https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l4BYvxsz8 ah7nFVm27wjLhiq6uvPGX93kjsnPlaHA/edit# shows that risky behavior effects 16 and 17 year olds as it does 18 year olds, so if you start driving at sixteen you will realize it is not a game when you are 18 but more a responsibility.

Side: Keep the driving age
3 points

Most people say driving is based off of maturity but it is not. Driving is actually based off of experience so it doesn't make sense to add 2 years to the driving age when 18-year-olds won't be more experienced than 16-year-olds.

Supporting Evidence: Opposed driving age (docs.google.com)
Side: Keep the driving age
3 points

“If you classmate gets in an accident, should your driver's license be taken away?” Raising the driving limit would be like punishing you for something that you didn’t even do. Most people label teenage drivers guilty before they even get in a car accident. Because there are an estimated 41,844,000 teenagers in America, and studies show only 2,524 teenage car crashes ended in death.

Supporting Evidence: Driving Age (docs.google.com)
Side: Keep the driving age
21awelch(5) Disputed
3 points

Although you do make a good point, according to Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 16-year-old drivers have more accidents per highway mile than any other age group. So if we raise the driving age

maybe we could get the death numbers to decrease even more.

Supporting Evidence: The facts are in this article (docs.google.com)
Side: Raise the driving age
3 points

I disagreed because “Studies show that it is inexperience, not age, that causes accidents.” So therefore raising the driving age we would just see that the new drivers (that would be 18 years old) get in the same number of crashes as the 16 year old drivers would have because the same thing would happen all over again because since the 18 year old drivers are inexperienced then they would just get into the same amount of accidents that the 16 year olds do. This just means that instead of having 16 year olds die in car crashes 18 year olds will die in car crashes, and nothing would improve. Knowing this way we should just keep the driving age the same.

Supporting Evidence: Driving Age link (docs.google.com)
Side: Keep the driving age
3 points

Although most people say driving is based on maturity the reality is it isn't. It is actually based off of experience so tell me this are you more experienced if you the 18-year-old start at the same time as a 16-year-old? No so why wait 2 extra years?

Side: Keep the driving age
2 points

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Supporting Evidence: Drining age Opposed (docs.google.com)
Side: Keep the driving age
3 points

If you wait until kids are 18 to give them their drivers license they will have to take their drivers tests on paper and behind the wheel when they should actually be spending that portion of the year studying and getting ready for their final ACT exam for college.

Side: Keep the driving age
3 points

It’s better that 16 year old start driving at a 16 because they will learn to be responsible. When they learn to be responsible, they start to lean how to act like a grown up instead of a teen. They would also start getting treated like an adult. For an example, if they crash their car they should get to pay the insurance because they crashed the car, not their parents

Side: Keep the driving age
3 points

Some people say that you should raise the driving age because people’s brains are more developed when they are older, and that it would cause less accidents. People would have to wait until their early 20’s for their brain to be fully developed. That to me would be way too long to wait to get your driver's license because if you are going to any kind of college, or school like all throughout high school you would need to drive to get there, and you need to drive to your job, to get home you would have to drive there, and you would have to drive everywhere else you need to be.

Supporting Evidence: Driving Age link (Some of argument was my thinking) (docs.google.com)
Side: Keep the driving age
2 points

"The Oklahoman" in an article distributed recently by Scripps Howard News Service. The result is a patchwork of laws and arrangements. In most states 16-year-olds who have driven for six months without a citation can drive unsupervised until 10:00 p.m. After another six months or so they can drive without restrictions” this is more fair than raising the driving age to 18.

Side: Keep the driving age
1 point

I think the driving age should stay the same because 16 year old's should take on the responsibility. I think that they should take on responsibility because they are becoming young adults and they need to learn how to take care of a car (like paying insurance, and making sure it's clean.) While 18 year old's are most likely in college or are getting ready for college, they won't have time to take drivers ed, they would too busy with homework and they wont have time to learn how to drive. Also, 16 year old's need to start acting like they're young adults, not rowdy teenagers. Taking care of a car would show that 16 year old's are mature and can handle becoming an adult.

Side: Keep the driving age
21akalk Disputed
5 points

Although this is true, John M. Crisp from Scripps News Service says, "Nudging the legal driving age upwards a bit, that is, in the direction of more maturity, experience and responsibility, would at least have the practical effect of reducing the number of 16-year-old who are killed each year in auto accidents." Despite the fact that 16-year-olds need to learn responsibility like taking care of a car, there are many other approaches that you can take to teach them responsibility that are unlike putting their own and someone else's life in their hands. For example, you could have them take care of a pet.

Side: Raise the driving age
21mhenning(4) Disputed
1 point

Raising a pet isn't getting you ready to take on adult responsibilities as much as a car would, but maintaining a car at age 16 will get you more prepared for taking on adult responsibilities. Saving money for a car and maintenance will better prepare you for adulthood than taking care of a pet.

Side: Keep the driving age
3 points

I agree because if you wait until the kids are going into college they will be taking on a huge responsibility and that might put a lot of stress on the kids if they aren't used to that pressure.

Side: Keep the driving age
21ghunstiger(6) Disputed
2 points

I disagree with you.

The driving age should be raised up to 18 because there is no reason why young people should die if it could be avoided.

Between the years 1995 and 2004, there were 30,917 fatalities from accidents that involved people with ages from 15-17 that drove. This information was studied by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Almost a third of those deaths were the teen driver from the ages 15-17 as shown above. This only shows that there are way too many deaths with teenage drivers. 16 and 17 year olds are not ready to handle a car. They can't handle it and aren't mature enough yet.

Supporting Evidence: Link (docs.google.com)
Side: Raise the driving age
1 point

Raising the driving age is a bad idea! Raising the driving age will just create more inexperienced drivers. At age 18 there would be a lack of experience by 2 years. Also at age 18 there becoming adults and they're most likely to start drinking.

Supporting Evidence: Driving age (docs.google.com)
Side: Keep the driving age
1 point

The driving age should not be raised because keeping the driving age at 16 keeps the parents involved with the child learning how to drive. Parents need to learn to let go of their kids at some point and give them the freedom to go places on their own. This helps the kids be more independent and responsible. It’s a part of growing up that should probably still involve the parents and happen before the kids leave home for college. With the driving age at 18, a lot of kids will be at college or possibly have moved out and on their own. If the driving age is 16 parents are there to help the teen learn to drive and use discipline if necessary. If kids are learning how to drive in college and get in trouble or get home really late it is the college’s problem, not the parents. Parents can easily discipline and it is the parent's problem for their few kids. When the college has to discipline kids there are thousands of kids to look after. And who is going to know what to take away when they discipline? No one but their guardian knows them better, also when teens first get their temps they can drive with only their parent in the car. If the child is far away from their parents who is going to drive with them?

Supporting Evidence: www.drive-safely.net (www.drive-safely.net)
Side: Keep the driving age
1 point

The driving age should not be raised because having the driving age at 18 puts more pressure on the parents. Who is going to chauffeur kids around? How are they supposed to get to dates, dances, or other school events? If they are on a sports team then they have to go to all the events. Also, the kids can have a job when they are 16. How are they supposed to get to and from work? Especially when they have shifts almost every day and they close the work and have to be picked up late at night. Parents are busy enough and won’t want to be a chauffeur. You might say, What about biking? That may work for some states but what about in the winter of Wisconsin? With kids learning how to drive at age 16 all these problems are solved. The kid can drive where ever they need to go and the parents don't have to worry about driving them or picking them up.

Supporting Evidence: A.J. Rox (docs.google.com)
Side: Keep the driving age
1 point

The driving age should not be raised to 18.

People say that your brain is fully developed when you are 18 so that is when you should start driving. But your brain is not fully developed until early 20’s to early 30’s so it doesn’t matter if you start driving at 18 your brain still won’t be fully developed. The government is not going to change the driving age to early 30's just to have the brain developed. Not to mention parents are not going to want to drive there kids around till the kid is in there 30's. So you might as well just keep the driving age at 16.

Supporting Evidence: A.J. Rox and www.urmc.rochester.edu (docs.google.com)
Side: Keep the driving age
1 point

Teenagers have places that they need to be to like school, any practices that they have and jobs that they might have. parents can’t always drive their kids to school and all their other activities that they do. Teenagers need cars for getting around. Also having a car would do more good because it teaches teenagers to be responsible. for example if they have bad grade or something you could take it away, and they have to use their own money for gas which teaches them good life skills like managing money, time, and responsibility.

Supporting Evidence: (partly me) driving age link (docs.google.com)
Side: Keep the driving age