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threat to the lives of adolescents and emerging adults. The most at risk are people ages 16 to 24. Some countries have raised the driving age to 18 and this has decreased their accident rate dramatically. Over half of adolescents have fatalities a few months after driving, but it decrease after a year. Automobile accidents are the leading cause of death for adolescents regardless. The young drivers are inexperienced. Young male drivers participate in more risk behaviors than older drivers such…

risk to the widespread adoption of self-driving cars is that an accident where a self-driving car is at fault causes an overreaction by governments or the public before self-driving cars are seen as a part of everyday life. The first chance of this happening occurred when the Google self-driving car got in an accident a municipal bus[10]. The accident was not serious and so no major public reaction occurred. However, a more serious accident could give infinite ammunition to the “wait and see”…

harmed their children? What if the parents claimed that it was accidental, should they walk free? In my opinion, I feel that the parents should be charged, even if they said it was an accident. Leaving a child in a hot car for hours is negligence, it’s irresponsible, and if the parents are saying it was an accident, there is no way that you could forget your own child in a car for so long. To begin with, leaving a child in a hot car for a long period of time unattended to, is negligence. It…

Everyone has an opinion on whether or not there should be trust placed in youths. Would the trust be extended to something that everyone does everyday? As children transition into adulthood, they learn how to drive and start commuting themselves to their errands. In America, the legal driving age is 16, but some people believe that the age should be raised. However, the driving age should not be raised to 18 because that will cause drivers to be less experienced behind the wheel and will push…

Keep On Driving In 2014, a total of 4,192 people ages 70 and older died in car accidents. That's 29 percent fewer than in 1997 (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety). Older drivers are often seen as annoying or slow, but over the past few decades, these drivers have improved their performance while driving and should no longer fall into that stereotype. People over the age of 70 should keep their driver’s license because they are statistically safer, they can be very healthy and capable, and…

Buckling Down on Safety: The Importance of Seat Belts Considering the high frequency at which car accidents occur, it’s a wonder that more people don’t deem seat belts to be the number one priority when riding or driving in a vehicle. It’s not uncommon to see drivers and passengers not wearing their seat belts, or even to see kids freely moving all around the backseat of a car. In fact, everyone is bound to know someone who doesn’t wear their seat belt. Drivers and passengers alike give many…

Brianna Rysavy 5/23/2016 Aggressive Driving/Road Rage Paper Aggressive driving has been a problem on our roadways for a while, and it seems to only be getting worse. Incidents of screaming, rude gestures, and sometimes even violence are reported frequently on the road and have come up with the name: road rage. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration defines road rage as when a driver "commits moving traffic offenses so as to endanger other persons or property; an assault with a motor…

Have you ever wanted there to be an adventure that happens in your head, well if you do Savvy is the book for you. Some people might say that the story is slow at the beginning, but it makes up for it with the excitement throughout the book that contains a difficult problem to solve, a lot of suspense and the author’s creative ideas. The main character's dad is in a car crash on her thirteenth birthday and they take a long trip to a far away hospital because they live in the middle of nowhere…

The the self driving cars are getting more popular than usual that's because there is this battle between uber and google is raging on now more than a year ,but the real debate is that , are robot cars safe or will they ravage the streets. Now we know that robots are programmed to not make mistakes, but what happens when the robot cars are on the streets. Maybe the robot cars will not be able to handle human drivers and crash .Self driving cars should not be permitted on the streets because that…

Route 66 was a two street that stretched for over 2,400 miles. With the incoming tourist and increase in automobile activity, there was always large congested traffic. Bumper to bumper traffic took the roads and accidents made travel become unethical. This is when Route 66 began to take a turn for its high popularity and love for the mother road, to changes of a more convenient road structures like a 4 lane street. In 1941 the Federal Defense Highway Act of 1941 authorized and funded a limited…