Bertrand's ACE Debate

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?

You do make a good point but John M. Crisp states in his article, "Would raising the legal driving age to a national standard 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." So couldn't raising the driving the driving age also teach them a sense of responsibility?

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.

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.

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.

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.