Commercial driver's license

Can you imagine being seventeen and you can not go to a friends house ,because you can not drive and you have to wait for your mother or father to drive you? Well that could be reality ,many states have increased the minimum driving age. Our state is now considering raising it as well I think it should not be raised because driving is important from your teenage years on ,and it is our right to be able to learn and to drive at sixteen. To begin, you can learn alot from driving at…

experience but the ones who waited until they no longer had to worry about the restrictions did not. Masten confirms that “[he suspects] that the reason for the increase in deadly crashes among 18 year-old is… [teenagers] are simply waiting to get their license until they turn 18, and skip the restrictions altogether” (O'Connor 1). It may be easier to just wait out the restrictions but by waiting it out they have lost valuable practice time, and as a result these individuals are putting their…

place for teenagers to be driving all around it. Why would we want to put ourselves in danger when we have the power to put an end to it. Teens have a very high percentage of car crashes than any other age, so why not raise the age of getting a driver’s license. We the people should want to better our country and by raising the age we can prevent the unnecessary deaths of civilians in the annual 900,000 car crashes per year. Over 2,000 people die and over 300,000…

Do you remember how excited you were to finally get your license when you were sixteen? Or do you remember how excited you were going to be once you reached sixteen so imagine if they were to raise the driving age to eighteen. The driving age should not be raised. It should not be raised because sixteen is a good age to start driving. You're old enough to have an job at this age so you should be able to have a license to make sure you can be self reliant getting to work or anywhere else without…

Teens everywhere are excited when they can drive. "Tennessee allows drivers to get a learners permit at the age of 15. To earn a graduated driver’s license, you must have held your learners permit for six months, be at least 16 years old, and complete a log providing you have practiced driving for at least 50 hours.” (ct.gov) All they can think about is driving and the freedom that come with driving. For many teens, driving is the first step to being adult because they have freedom to do almost…

irresponsible when driving, causing more trouble and craziness than the previous two described. Some people who cannot afford drivers education wait until they are eighteen to get their license. When this happens, the person does not have to do anything but take a test in the DMV and drive with a professional to obtain their license. This means they possibly did not get legitimate training or go through classes to get the proper education to be driving on the road. Although this is not the case…

When do kids become adults? A question that's frequently debated across the world, and for good reason too. The answers to this question impact when people are given certain responsibilities, greatly affecting the overall population. For example, if people were allowed to drive at the age of thirteen, we may or may not have more accidents. This would affect not only those 13 year olds, but everyone else involved. After reading many different perspectives on this issue, I believe that becoming an…

“Most prior studies on graduated drivers licenses have only looked at 16 year olds.” said Scott Masten a motor vehicle researcher. Focusing on only 16 year olds, is obstructing the view of the teenage driving community. The fact that 16 years old is the minimum diving in the U.S. hardly means that…

Whenever you hear about fatal car accidents on the news, you secretly give your condolences. When you find out that it was caused by a teenager, you become angry with the fact that they did not have the correct driving knowledge to be out on the street. Teens cause many accidents on the road and they are also victims of accidents. It is this that leads me to believe that the minimum driving age must be raised. To begin with, teenagers have the tendency to be distracted. This could range from…

responsibilities. You are faced with endless challenges that push you to your limit and test your strength. As you matures, you will be given different tastes of freedom than before. One example of this is driving: getting a permit and then a license. Getting a driver's license is a leap of freedom from what you had before, for you are now able to go out when you please and do what you choose. With this, comes an enormous new set of responsibilities and most teenagers are not ready to handle the…