I believe the driving age should be raised because sixteen year old's are simply not responsible enough. If they start at a older age, they will be more cautious and responsible on the road.
Along to not having a job, They wont have money to support themselves, pay for things or help with anything they or their family needs. This will cause some economy problems with money expenses and funds.
You may say that they are more responsible, but actually, driving accidents are not prone to age. They are prone to inexperience. So, by raising the driving age, you are taking the experience they could get at age 16 and moving it to an older age. Causing more death as 18 years old instead of 16 years old.
I disagree lots of teens are ready for the responsibility to get behind the wheel and the some that don't take it seriously that's there problem why have the responsible people wait for the people who aren't ready.
According to John M. Crisp, most accidents are caused by inexperience, not age. If you raise the driving age we will still have inexperienced drivers, we just have to make sure are drivers are experienced and responsible.
So raising the driving age would NOT prevent that. It would delay the age. Just as many people would die. Just at a different age. The teens only need more experience. If you really wanted to prevent the death rates, start drivers ed at a younger age. And still have teens get their license at age 16.
Raising the driving age would help everyone. With our technology advancing, we are getting more and more safer cars. But having safer cars doesn't make drivers safer. In fact, it may make drivers more reckless because they think having a safer car will save them when they are being careless.
According to Alex Koroknay-Palicz, raising the driving age isn't going to help irresponsible drivers. Speeding will still be a problem, and there will be more drunk drivers and running red lights.
But yet when people start getting older an less stupid they wont be running red lights. Like teens when there with friends they will be like I dare you to run a red light and knowing some teens they would do it
Yes I think you should raise the driving age because of death. In nineteen ninety five to two thousand four there were thirty thousand nine hundred seventeen death of teens ages fifteen to seventeen. On December twenty ninth in two thousand five, four teenage boys went out for a late night drive. Just a normal little drive can hurt anyone right? Well, the car lost control and hit seven things. Two of the boys sixteen and seventeen then the driver who was sixteen died. This was only six days away from Christmas. Imagine never having another Christmas. For my second reason is other countries have a higher driving age. The United States Of America has the highest death ratio of teens dying in car crashes. In the USA there is 15.5 teen deaths in every hundred thousand teens driving. But that doesn't seem like a lot but as the years come by it gets higher and higher. In Germany its 9.8 teen deaths in every hundred thousand teen motorcycle deaths. And for my last reason is... If kids can't have guns smoke or do drugs why can they drive. Imagine four pot head teens doing some drugs. They get hungry and they want to go get some food. So they take there car. Driving when they were high. They will be seeing things they see a green light when its actually a red light and they hit a couple of kids walking across the road. Imagine having that guilt for the rest of your life. Cars are just as deadly as weapon. So you think its okay for teens to drive but no its not cars are just as deadly as weapons
Yes, many people die. But, by raising the driving age, you are not preventing death. you are only delaying when they die. And you might also say that peoples brains are more developed at age 18, but a human brain is actually NOT developed at age 18. It IS developed at age 21. So if you wanted to raise it to 21, when your brain is fully developed, you could. With that, raising to age 21 would cause countless problems with school education and transportation as adults.
You make a good point, but when you are first born, you are an infant. Look at your self now. You've grown. Your brain will keep growing more at 18. It will have grown since you have been 16 right?
We should raise the driving age because kids are not ready to be behind the wheel. Kids might not have the right education or common sense to drive. This could lead so many deaths, just because of one small stupid mistake.
Teenagers aren't the only ones that make small stupid mistakes though. Raising the driving age isn't going to solve other road problems like highway safety, and drunk drivers.
Yes I think the driving age should be raised because, when teenagers are young they attend to be cool and try new things well 77 percent of people in the world who get in car related accidents are people who Go fast, Try to be cool and text, Impressing somebody with what they think are smarts, And just try to do something and let go of the wheel. Alex-Koroknay-Palicz, said to a reporter that its not the car or what going on, its the inexperience that causes it not the other things around it. Teenager's under the age of 18 are legally forced to stop driving at around 10:30-4:00 in the morning, If people where to make the time start earlier it would reduce a little bit of the worlds car crashes, It also might have an effect with reducing stress on the person or on the Guardian's of that person. So that's why I think the ( Driving Age Should Be Raised )
Canadian researchers tried to untangle the influence of age and experience on crashes involving beginners by dividing drivers 16, 17, and 18 years old according to whether they had been driving less than a year or more than a year. The main finding, reported in 1992, is that 16 year-olds, especially girls this age, had higher rates of injury crashes than older teenagers who also were new to the road.
According to Alex Koroknay-Palicz, men are 77% more likely to be in a car accidents than women, does that mean we should only let women drive. Of course not, raising the driving age isn't taking away very much danger.
As it said in the experiment, it was mostly teenage girls. but men are more likely to drive drunk. It's mostly teenagers because there are so many new influences and things to try. They are introduced to drugs,alcohol, and other adult things that they don't know how to use wisely.
Well how many teenagers are going to be very careful when there with there friends and your friends in the back seat are telling you stuff and handing a cigarette and beer. Then they will start daring you to do stuff then your so high out of your mind you don't know whats happening then... you drive off a bridge
I agree with Kayla. Why should all 16 year old be punished if only a couple of them are being irresponsible. We are putting labels on them without giving them a chance.
But there are so many that aren't. I've seen at least one driving accident every week caused by teenagers. And that's just the NE. There is the rest of Wisconsin and the rest of the country!
Yes but those things are way more vulnerable to teens then adults. Have you seen scary movie 2? Shorty the one with the afro. He smokes weed and he goes crazy.
Well with some people there all beautiful. Then in the inside they are just terrible people who talk behind your back and do stuff when your not around
I think we should raise the driving age because many kids drink and drive. Drinking and driving is very common. Did you know that 32, 885 people died in 2010 in the USA. They died because of drinking and driving with traffic crashes. People will be more smart to know what drinking can do. This is why I believe we should raise the driving age.
I think we should not raise the driving age because it teaches kids responsibility at an early age and gets them ready for the real world.
They say that there have been so many crashes but that is because the kids that crashed where not responsible just because those kids are not responsible doesn't mean all teens are not. If some do it don't punish all
Well kids at that age are very experimental. They like to try new things. Drugs drinking. They might think its funny to run a red light. Or be chased down by cops. And most of teenage crashes happen because they were the one who caused it.
Well some teens simple can't wait teens are very busy and they need a car to get where they need to be also why should we make everyone wait when only some are not ready to get behind the wheel we shouldn't take away others privileges who are ready for the responsibility just because of the some in the past who where not ready.
You should not raise the driving age. Raising the driving age is only punishing people that didn't do anything. "People get into more crashes at a young age"
is not always true. And if they raise the driving age for teenagers that are 16 because of that statement, they are punishing people who didn't get into crashes, for others mistakes.
Did you know your are six times more likely to get in a car crash. And knowing teens they have all there friends texting them. Then they will get distracted and look at there phone and take there EYES OFF THE ROAD. And then who knows whats going to happen?
I understand that people say it is a punishment to the kids to not have driving but I disagree. I disagree because there has been many deaths occurred by teenagers. If we raised the driving age it could be cut by a thousand deaths. Therefore we should raise the driving age
I agree! people should give teenagers a chance to drive and not just let them go until they are like 20. Not everyone has gotten into a car crash, and a lot of 16,17, and 18 years old's are responsible.
How will teenagers die if you don't raise the driving age? Teenagers are not ready to get behind the wheel. They do not have the right education that they could get in driving class. They don't have the common sense to make on the road.
Don't raise it because parents will be mad because they want there kids out of the house more and driving somewhere making experiences not sitting around the house because there parents don't want to drive them around so it would be good for parents to let kids drive at 16 its the way it is and the way it should stay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes kids tend to go to more parties when they are teenagers. But I disagree because during the parties there could be drinking. This leads to drinking and driving. This is just the smallest mistakes. Therefore the driving age should be raised.
The driving age should not be raised. Many people think that teenagers are the reason there are more accidents, but that isn't true. Accidents are caused because of inexperience, not age. By raising the driving age it will just create more inexperience drivers because they will start learning something new at an older age. If we change to 18 there will be inexperienced 18 year olds.
I believe that the driving age should not be raised because parents are getting sick of driving their kids around when they get older. Your parents drove you around when you were little and when you get older you will want to go places with friends a lot more than you did when you were little, Your parents won't want to drive you around then.
Would your parents rather drive you around, or not have you around at all? Parents would rather drive their kids around, then have them get in a accident and die.
Theirs this awesome thing called a BIKE! You go outside and actually ride a bike and be active instead of being lazy all the time maybe you should get some exercise
I agree, teenagers need to learn how to be responsible. If they don't have there license now, they're less likely to get a job when their 16, and they'll be less responsible.
Your going to need a car if you go off campus or if you don't go to a college or your finished with college and you are moving to your own house how would you get around then.
I agree with this because when you get to an age around 16, you should probably get money and try to support yourself a little bit more. Paying for a car could greatly help your parents. But, if you don't have a license, you can't get a job to pay for it. You would need a way to get to work. Most likely a summer job, and many would be during the day. You can say "Well, you parents could get you to work." But, most adults work doing the day as well. So, that still resorts you to walking and biking. And remember, its summer. Walking a long distance can result to heat stroke if your not safe.
Teenagers like to go out late at night or go to proms and dances. If i was a teenager i would be embarrassed to have my parents driving me around. Lets say that you were at a fire, at a friends house and you wanted to come home at 11 (like my brother does) your parents wouldn't want to get out of bed and come get you and bring you back home.
