Bertrand's ACE Debate

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This link is to support my claim.

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This is the link to support my claim.

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I forgot to add in the link to my reasoning!

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.

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?

You can do many other things to get you ready for adulthood besides taking the chance of possibly killing people due to immaturity. In fact, raising a pet can you get you ready for adulthood as pets are quite like children.

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.

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?

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.