Why Teens Should Wait Till 18 To Start Getting Their License
At the age of sixteen people can receive their drivers’ license. Many think that this age is too high but many more think it is too low. The age at which young adults can receive their license is far too low. With the driving age at sixteen there are a lot more accidents. The amount of accidents with teenage drivers is more than triple that of drivers who are older and have had more experience. If the driving age was higher this would lessen the number of accidents more because people would have a better understanding of what they are doing. People should not be able to start drivers Ed until they are eighteen or older. This would maximize the understanding of what driving is and would permit people to spend more time learning. At the age of fifteen when students are permitted to take drivers Ed and at sixteen when they can first obtain a drivers’ license it is too soon. With only a year of practice and with not a lot of understanding about driving it is a main factor in the amount of accidents occurring. If drivers training started at eighteen and went on for two years instead of a max of six months and we got our licenses at twenty it would increase understanding and in turn reduce accidents.
Insurance is also a major factor why we should not be able to get our licenses until we are twenty. At the age of sixteen the government still consider you to be a minor. So with that they charge parents almost a thousand dollars more in six months than if you did not have a teenage driver. If you were twenty they could not consider you a minor anymore and therefore the rates would not go up. Insurance is also hard to obtain when you are sixteen. It is hard because it is extremely expensive and goes up if you have bad grades and or accidents. With such high rates and ridiculous criteria, it is hard and expensive, especially in today’s economy. Grades in school also matter in what your rates are. People with high grades get better rates than kids who do poorly in school.
Insurance is also a major factor why we should not be able to get our licenses until we are twenty. At the age of sixteen the government still consider you to be a minor. So with that they charge parents almost a thousand dollars more in six months than if you did not have a teenage driver. If you were twenty they could not consider you a minor anymore and therefore the rates would not go up. Insurance is also hard to obtain when you are sixteen. It is hard because it is extremely expensive and goes up if you have bad grades and or accidents. With such high rates and ridiculous criteria, it is hard and expensive, especially in today’s economy. Grades in school also matter in what your rates are. People with high grades get better rates than kids who do poorly in school.