Finding a suitable driving age for teens has become a controversial topic over the past few years and different ideas are beginning to spread internationally. Making this decision has not been made easy with the varying arguments that have been presented. With the multitude of opinions spreading, only one is logical. Setting the driving age to 18 and enforcing experience requirements for all new drivers would benefit not only teenagers but all other citizens on the road by reducing the rate of yearly accidents and creating a safer travel environment filled with more mature drivers.
Raising the driving age to 18 and implementing experience enhancing tests would prevent an exponential amount of accidents, limiting the death toll on the …show more content…
Recent studies have shown that as age increases, accidents decrease. ”In which the rate of crash-related deaths among 18-year-olds was 18 per 100,000 in New Jersey, compared with 26 per 100,000 in Connecticut, which had a minimum driver's license age of 16 and 4 months.” (Gregory). Safe driving has a variety of different factors and the most important one is age. These studies prove that drivers required to wait until a later age are less likely to get into an accident than a student who earned a license at a premature age. Although 16 year olds may think they have the same mental capacities for driving, this is not the case. The skills required to operate a vehicle are learned with time and training and the current driving age does not allow this to occur. Statistics do not lie and actions must be taken in order to make the roads a safer place to travel. The solution has been proposed and all that is left is to enact new …show more content…
Some people believe that inexperience in driving has nothing to do with age and we should lower the driving age in order to provide teens with more experience. This ludicrous opinion contradicts the facts. Lowering the driving age places immature, adolescents in a situation that is set up for failure, or worse, death. With over 30,000 deaths in drivers who are 16, imagine the massive increase in fatalities among younger children who were thrown into the dangerous world of inexperienced driving. Maturity is in direct correlation with age, as is experience. The older people start driving, the better. Placing the driving age at the first step to adulthood is the perfect way to limit fatalities and provide safe transportation. Lowering the driving age would put the world in a worse situation and therefore this idea should be thrown out
Raising the driving age to 18 and implementing experience enhancing tests would prevent an exponential amount of accidents, limiting the death toll on the …show more content…
Recent studies have shown that as age increases, accidents decrease. ”In which the rate of crash-related deaths among 18-year-olds was 18 per 100,000 in New Jersey, compared with 26 per 100,000 in Connecticut, which had a minimum driver's license age of 16 and 4 months.” (Gregory). Safe driving has a variety of different factors and the most important one is age. These studies prove that drivers required to wait until a later age are less likely to get into an accident than a student who earned a license at a premature age. Although 16 year olds may think they have the same mental capacities for driving, this is not the case. The skills required to operate a vehicle are learned with time and training and the current driving age does not allow this to occur. Statistics do not lie and actions must be taken in order to make the roads a safer place to travel. The solution has been proposed and all that is left is to enact new …show more content…
Some people believe that inexperience in driving has nothing to do with age and we should lower the driving age in order to provide teens with more experience. This ludicrous opinion contradicts the facts. Lowering the driving age places immature, adolescents in a situation that is set up for failure, or worse, death. With over 30,000 deaths in drivers who are 16, imagine the massive increase in fatalities among younger children who were thrown into the dangerous world of inexperienced driving. Maturity is in direct correlation with age, as is experience. The older people start driving, the better. Placing the driving age at the first step to adulthood is the perfect way to limit fatalities and provide safe transportation. Lowering the driving age would put the world in a worse situation and therefore this idea should be thrown out