To begin with, the driving age should stay sixteen to ensure teenagers will receive autonomy. They’re sixteen. We need to give them responsibility. They’re about to enter adulthood. That means they’re getting more and more mature. Just because you turn eighteen doesn’t mean you magically become mature. Sixteen is about the age maturity sits in. Its learned. The age doesn’t make you mature. Lastly, they deserve more freedom in these years. …show more content…
Have you ever felt completely helpless? I’m sure we all have. It would make all of these sixteen year olds who have their license helpless if you raise the legal driving age to eighteen. That would mean you’d be taking away all of these sixteen year olds privileges away from them. Maybe their parents are old or ill and they need them to go to the store to buy groceries or needed supplies. There’s so many reasons it’s so important to let sixteen year olds obtain licenses at their age. Taking them and raising the driving age to eighteen would complicate things beyond what they should