Should 16 Year Olds Be Allowed To Raise The Driving Age To 18

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Should 16 year olds really be allowed to drive or should we raise the driving age to 18? I personally think the driving age should be raised to 18 and here are some of my reasons why. ( 18 being the driving age, statistics, maturity, )

For my first reason 18 should be the driving age I will tell more as you read on but to start I want to tell more on why 18 would be the best driving age. Sure 16 would be a nice age because you are in high school and you have friends and you can go out and drive yourself around. But if 18 you wouldn’t be able to do that, your parents would have to drive you around but looking to statistics you will be saving lives this way. For the statistics. Researchers have found that teens of the age of 16

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