Minimum Driving Age Needs to be raised Should the minimum driving age be raised? 15-to-20-year-olds only make up 17% (13.2 million) of the total licensed drivers on the U.S. Teenagers have been involved in many car accidents since 1998. Car crashes among 15-to-20-year-olds have been recorded and studied by Mr. masten and his colleagues. car crashes involving teenagers were really high in 1998; however rules and programs have been applied to teach teens how to be responsible and know how to handle
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Driving Age Some people are discussing the driving age for teenagers. How it should be raised or lowered. I am going to explore both sides and in the end choose one for my self. The different sides include; Keep the age the same‚ lowering it‚ and raising it‚ of just making it to where you can get your permit earlier but still drive at 16. The age for driving could change over the next couple of years‚ so there will be positive and negative consequences. If we keep the age at 16 and not change
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Should the legal driving age stay at 16? Despite what people might think‚ most car accidents aren’t caused by the age of the driver. Car accidents are caused by the lack of experience or knowledge of the road. Sixteen is the perfect age to drive because it’s the age where teenagers start to mature and learn how to deal with responsibility. Driving is a necessary part of life. Teenagers drive themselves to school and to work‚ they help pick up a bit of the responsibilities their parents have
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Should We Raise The Driving Age To 18? Imagine yourself as a sixteen year-old. You just got your driver’s license‚ and are going to go cruising with your friends to celebrate. However‚ at about ten o’clock‚ your attention isn’t on the road‚ and you crash into another vehicle. Two of your friends die on scene‚ and your other friend is seriously injured. For thousands of teens each year‚ this is a reality. Sixteen year-old drivers are three times more likely to crash than seventeen year old’s
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ideas are that the driving age should be changed to 18‚ or to have graduated licenses (GDL’s). Instead of waiting until teenagers turn 18‚ it would be better to have GDL’s so that they have more driving experience‚ they would have a shorter waiting period than waiting until they are 18‚ and there would be more checkpoints to see how capable they are to drive. These are all reasons there should be GDL’s. The first reason there should be GDL’s is that
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Driving age 18 Why should the legal driving age not be eighteen? I believe that the driving age should be raised to eighteen. Some teens have no reason to be driving‚ some have a lack of experience‚ and most of them are not even mature yet. Also‚ teens get into more car accidents than anyone in a different age. First or all‚ teens have no reason to be driving‚ some have nowhere to go. When teenagers become eighteen they probably might have a job or they will probably be buying groceries or supplies
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Increasing the Driving Age to 18 Years of Age According to recent statistics collected by Stats Canada‚ there are approximately 160 000 road accidents in Canada each year. Information recorded by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada states that of these 160 000 road accidents‚ there are approximately 2850 fatalities. Of these fatalities‚ over 5000 are predominantly teenagers aged 16-20‚ who are relatively new drivers. Furthermore‚ 400 000 drivers of the same age category are seriously injured
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accident later on in life. Teenagers who are older usually get into accidents. If the minimum age is raised‚ teenagers won’t have the rights they deserve. The minimum age driving age should remain at the age of 16 because teenagers need to learn responsibility‚ they will be able to help their parents‚ and they would be able to work a job. First of all‚ teenagers need to learn responsibility when it comes to driving. If teenagers learn to drive early‚ they won’t rely on everyone else to take them places
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being able to drive at a younger age‚ but it is still unclear if they are able to handle it. If the legal driving age is lowered‚ are we endangering the lives of teen drivers‚ as well as the passengers with them? I believe most people want to drive as soon as they can. However‚ recently the government has been trying to pass laws that may change the current driving age of 16. There are positive and negative aspects to changing the laws that allow the driving age to stay at 16.There have been new
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Kevin Morris 22 March 2012 Audience: Professor Kevin Morris Changing the Driving Age Should Not Be Raised It should come as no surprise that when the issue of whether or not the driving age should be raised is brought up‚ most people will argue that it should. If these same individuals were to take a look at some of the facts on this issue‚ their minds might be up for a change. The issue of raising the driving age has been a topic of discussion for many years because most of the evidence is
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