If someone's friend steals something, does the innocent friend go to jail? No. If someone's classmate gets into a fatal accident, does the unharmed classmate get their license suspended? Of course not. The minimum driving age should stay at 16-years-old because if it is raised, it will only prolong the experience and it will cause an inconvenience for parents. Raising the legal driving age will only prolong the experience for teens. Statistics show that a third of all 16-year-old divers and a quarter of 17-to-19-year-old drivers involved in fatal crashes rolled their vehicles. Rollovers often occur when a driver overcorrects and runs off the road. Inexperienced teens are most likely to do so (“Lund”). According to Alex Koroknay-Palicz, the
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This is because teens go to school, they go to work, they have sports or band practices, or they just go out with their friends (“O’Donnell”). As a teens grows and there schooling becomes harder due to college, driving becomes essential. Teens do not have time to learn how to drive in college. Why you might ask? To obtain a drivers license one needs a minimum of 40 hours behind the wheel and 10 hours at night to make a total of 50 hours (Behind). No parent or student has time to do theses supervised hours while going to school and work. It would be almost impossible to work with both parents and their kids schedule to make sure they both get to their destination on time. However, if the age is kept the same they can learn to drive while the parent still has control, at the age of 15, get their license at 16, and also get a job while still having the time to hang out with …show more content…
However, this only works for city kids. There is little to no public transit in rural areas, and some people cannot ride bikes or afford them. Also, it is too far to walk from place to place due to all of the open space in between homes, roads, and to town. But it is just overall too dangerous to ride bikes or walk. Twenty-three percent of the U.S. population live in rural areas, and yet 56% of all traffic fatalities occur in rural areas (Rural). Without safer roads and no driver's license, people would have to travel along high-speed roadways with few pedestrian accommodations (Rural). Also, public transit does not take people wherever they want to go; it does not take people to their friends houses, it does not pick people up from school, and it certainly does not run all day. City buses stop picking up and dropping off people at anytime between 8 o’clock to 10 o’clock depending on the day (Metro). This just would not work because someone might work late, and then the buses are not running so they have to call a taxi or someone to come pick them up, and if someone works late almost every night then they would be spending more money on a taxi every night than they would if they just had a
This is because teens go to school, they go to work, they have sports or band practices, or they just go out with their friends (“O’Donnell”). As a teens grows and there schooling becomes harder due to college, driving becomes essential. Teens do not have time to learn how to drive in college. Why you might ask? To obtain a drivers license one needs a minimum of 40 hours behind the wheel and 10 hours at night to make a total of 50 hours (Behind). No parent or student has time to do theses supervised hours while going to school and work. It would be almost impossible to work with both parents and their kids schedule to make sure they both get to their destination on time. However, if the age is kept the same they can learn to drive while the parent still has control, at the age of 15, get their license at 16, and also get a job while still having the time to hang out with …show more content…
However, this only works for city kids. There is little to no public transit in rural areas, and some people cannot ride bikes or afford them. Also, it is too far to walk from place to place due to all of the open space in between homes, roads, and to town. But it is just overall too dangerous to ride bikes or walk. Twenty-three percent of the U.S. population live in rural areas, and yet 56% of all traffic fatalities occur in rural areas (Rural). Without safer roads and no driver's license, people would have to travel along high-speed roadways with few pedestrian accommodations (Rural). Also, public transit does not take people wherever they want to go; it does not take people to their friends houses, it does not pick people up from school, and it certainly does not run all day. City buses stop picking up and dropping off people at anytime between 8 o’clock to 10 o’clock depending on the day (Metro). This just would not work because someone might work late, and then the buses are not running so they have to call a taxi or someone to come pick them up, and if someone works late almost every night then they would be spending more money on a taxi every night than they would if they just had a