Driving Age Essay

Road Rage: Road rage is responsible for many deaths world-wide due to angry drivers on the road, and the number of deaths caused by road rage is only increasing each year. Road rage is an act of violence due to being angry at someone while driving on the road. In scientist’s terms, road rage is an intermittent explosive disorder, leading to outbursts that involve breaking objects and violence to others. The first recorded incidences of road rage occurred approximately 40 years ago in England.…

Self-Driving Cars, are we there yet? Technology is taking over everyday life, from the minute a person opens his/her eyes, to the time a person sleeps. Today’s society is gradually changing to that of convenience, which is largely built on the use of modern technology. For the past few years, there has been ongoing development in the idea of the self-driving car. In the article, “Self-Driving Cars Could Save 300,000 Lives Per Decade in America,” by Adrianne LaFrance, published in The Atlantic…

Since distracted driving resulted in over 3,200 deaths, and 391,000 injuries a year (National Center for Statistics and Analysis, 2017), is creating devices making hands-free cell use easier while driving ethically defensible from an interactive designer’s viewpoint? At first blush, hands-free cell usage appears to solve problems of distraction. However, there are three types of distracted driving: visual, manipulative, and cognitive. When it comes to cell phone usage, hands-free may mitigate…

In 2015, 2,333 teens from 16-19 years of age were killed by motor vehicle crashes.Distracted driving is a really big issue in america and is one of the leading causes of death. Ihad no idea that that amount of teens have died from car crashes, but i'm not surprised. Drivingwhile texting is on of the many ways someone can be distracted while driving.Texting while driving is especially bad because it involves all of the 3 main types ofdistractions. The 3 main types of distractions are, taking your…

Sandra Aamodt, neuroscientist, explain that the brain is not fully developed until approximately age 25 and age 18 is about the halfway point. Currently we start driving before the brain is even halfway developed. This is highly unsafe and it show in the statistics. By increasing the driving age to 18 you allow the brain to develop more, making driving safer. However, waiting till age 25, the age where the brain is fully developed, is not a wise choice because someone might need a job to pay…

Laymon. Leslie is 83 years old and his wife Donna was 81. While driving along the highway Leslie somehow became confused and started driving on the wrong side of the road. He hit another car head on resulting in the death of his wife. His car went airborne and ended up on the next highway over. He survived the accident but was in bad condition. The other car had 80 year old Donald and 79 year old Shirley Vanhoeven. They were driving the correct way but weren’t paying attention and couldn’t go…

Whether it's caused by car malfunctions , bad weather, or distracted driving. Still over 1.6 million wrecks happen a year but, 330,000 are caused by texting and driving. While we can’t prevent bad weather we can prevent phone involved accidents. Texting and driving should be illegal because it is something that distracts, and it is totally preventable. Plus the biggest risk involving distracted driving is death. If you are driving at 55 mph and take your eyes off the road for the average amount…

one-fifty fourth of that is caused by teen drivers. Drivers under the age of 18 were involved in about 516 crashes per year in the state of Florida alone. 106 of those teens involved in the crashes were just passengers of the drivers. Throughout the entire nation about 6,500 teens are involved in crashes on average every year. More than 50 percent of those teens had injuries that were either fatal or life threatening. Driving is not a joke and needs to be done with care or you could be one of…

take care of a car and the responsibility of being behind the wheel. I began working to put money into my savings account at age fifteen. I always dreamt of the day I could buy myself my first car. As my seventeenth birthday got closer, the hunt for the right car began. I had saved enough money for a reasonable, used car but the search seemed never ending. After weeks of driving up and down the New Jersey coast, my parents and I decided I could take on the responsibility of leasing a car. This…

leading cause of death among 15- to 20-year olds.) (1,678 drivers age 16 to 20 died in motor vehicle crashes in 2014, compared with 1,651 drivers in this age group in 2013, according to the) Administration. (Data) Today’s 16 year old teens are thinking about partying and having fun, doing things they know not to do. They can tend to be careless. Would you want to be injured or killed by a 16 year old talking on their cell phones while driving?(claim) 16 year old teen drivers are at high risk on…