Why should the driving age be raised to 21?
This is all that you need to start your essay and yes it should be raised. JANUARY 2008 Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among 15- to 20-year olds. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, 3,490 drivers in this age group died in motor vehicle crashes in 2006 and an additional 272,000 were injured. Drivers age 15- to 20-years old accounted for 12.9 percent of all the drivers involved in fatal crashes and 16 percent of all the drivers involved in police-reported crashes. Twenty-five percent of teen drivers killed were intoxicated. In 2002 (latest data available) the estimated economic cost of police-reported crashes involving drivers between the ages of 15 and 20 was $40.8 billion, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA, http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov ).
Should the driving age be raised to 18?
I completely disagree that the age should be 18. There are plenty of stupid 20 year olds who don't know how to drive. There are also plenty of 16 year olds who are responsible and perfectly capable of safely driving. Raising the age will not solve problems. It will just piss off a bunch of 15 year olds who were supposed to get their licenses in only a few months. It could possibly even start riots. Bad move. Instead, I agree somewhat with your suggestion. Don't impose TOO many restrictions. Rather, have looser restrictions but with more severe punishments. Punishments now are mostly just fines, which don't really deter some people, and the restrictions in some places piss off the responsible ones. If we had looser restrictions with stiffer punishments, then the responsible ones wouldn't have a problem and the irresponsible teens wouldn't keep their licenses.
Should Driving Age Be Raised To 21?
I disagree because there will always be inexperienced drivers. If you look at other countries whose driving age is 18 years old, then you see that their youngest drivers at age 18 get into accidents just like drivers here in America who drive at age 16. It is because they are inexperienced, not because they are young. I think it would be more important to require parents to rear face their children up until age 2. Booster seat laws should include children under 12 who are shorter than 4 feet 9 inches tall - There are other ways to save lives. That is what I am saying. In the United States, you become an adult when you become 18 years old. You are old enough to be tried for murder and get executed, you are old enough to be drafted (forced) into the military and kill people over in other countries, old enough to decide who will lead this country (old enough to vote for the presidency), however you aren't just smart enough or capable enough to drive a car to work. If you were to raise the driving age to age 21, then you would have to raise the adult age to 21 also. The both have to coincide because parents could kick you out in the streets and you wouldn't be able to get around in a country like this. In the United States of America, you NEED a car to get around. I know people who use public transportation and they wait around forever. It takes hours to get from one place to another. How if you were an adult going to get a job when you didn't have a car? Reasons for raising it to age 21 would be that the brain would be better developed, but the brain hasn't completely matured your middle 20s, sometimes between ages 25-30.
Will the driving age in the US be raised any time soon?
Since there is no Federal minimum age for the United States it does seem unlikely. There are 50 states that each set their own minimum age for driving. Tover his can range from 13 for certain farm equipment in some states to over 16 for obtaining a DL in others.
What would happen if the driving age were raised to 25?
A lot more well-off suburban parents would support the building and maintenance of viable public transit systems, because their offspring's inability to "just drive there" would make it perfectly obvious to them what a public transit system is GOOD for.
What are some reasons that the driving age should not be raised to 18 or to 21?
The simple fact is that once a young person reaches the age of majority, they are no longer legally under their parent's control. When a minor is given a license, the parents have the right to have that license taken away, if the child does not act and drive in a responsible manner. The parent can take away any car, seeing as the minor child can have no legal ownership of a vehicle. This provides a controlling influence, and if the parents do their job, the minor child will either drive safely, or will not drive. All new drivers will make mistakes. Having the parental control will reduce the risks that new drivers are prone to take. If you require that someone wait until they are of legal age to get a license, there is no such control. An 18 year old can buy a car, and insurance, and unless they lose their license for traffic violations, there is no way to stop them from driving. Parents have no legal authority to take an adult child's vehicle form them. The problem is not caused by the younger drivers. It is caused by the lack of experience that the new driver, of any age, has. An 18 year old who was licensed at 16 is going to be more experienced than an 18 year old who just got a license. The idea of raising the driving age is a "feel good" solution that will not solve, and most likely will worsen the problems of inexperienced drivers
Should the driving age be raised up or down?
OK, here’s my personal opinion. :-) It depends.On one hand, at least in the US, there isn’t sufficient public transportation in most cities to give teenagers an option for getting to the places they need to be — like school, for example. Or dates. :-) So having a driver’s license at 16 makes sense, At 15 or less, not so much. See next paragraph.On the other hand, and I’m only speaking for me (or about me), there is absolutely NO WAY I was mature enough to be driving at 16. Was I capable of physically driving well? Yup! I’d actually been driving trucks and tractors on my grandparents farm since I was about 10. Driving, I could do.Was I mature enough not to do stupid things. Absolutely not. I did more than my share of stupid things and at least one unforgivable thing.So I guess 16 is a good round number because it’s probably is smack dab in the middle of the bell shaped immature to mature curve.Time for an interesting driver’s license story about France. I lived in Paris for a number of years and have a French Driver’s License (and Pilot’s license, as a matter of fact).Here’s an Answer that I wrote explaining how difficult getting a French Driver’s license is and that (at least at the time) if you failed either the “written” (which was completely different than the US version) or the “driving” test three times, you would never be able to get a French Driver’s license.Joe Shelton's answer to Does passing your driver test indicate you are great at driving?
Should minimum driving age be raised?
There is no need to change the age, it is better give proper training to the children.,
What was the legal driving age in the late 1930's?
prob was not a legal age.
What would be the advantages of raising the legal driving age to 21?
In my opinon there would be less teen fatalites behind the wheel. As well fewer totaled cars that the teens did not own, but were owned by their parents, driving their insurance rates off the charts.A teenager’s brain is not fully developed in regards to judgement. That is a simple fact. Given that, it is logical they will make poor judgements as a majority when it comes to driving a vehicle.Therefore I think it would be prudent and wise to raise the age for obtaining a drivers licence to the age 21.I have a 16 yr old granddughter. For her sixteenth birthday her maternal grandfather bought her a big double cab pick up truck. Similar to a tank in its ability to do damage to another vehicle. Close enough anyway.She is a goodgfirl, and shows failrly consisitent good judgement in areas her peers do not. She is taking driver’s education at school.Yet I shudder at the thought of her behind the wheel of that pickup truck. I fear for her life and others she may have in the vehicle with her, and anyone on the highway at the same time she is. I try my best not to think of it, as it brings very distrurbing visions of too many times I treated car wreck patients under the age of 21 in the years I worked in critical care and trauma.