Professor Ellis Driving for many teenagers is there first passage to freedom‚ nothing is more exciting to many teens than becoming the legal age to drive. In the United States‚ most states legal age limits are set somewhere between 15 to 17 yrs old‚ each state having there own licensing process often with some type of probationary period before teens can obtain a full license. Recently law makers in Florida‚ Georgia‚ Delaware‚ Illinois‚ and Massachusetts have debated raising the legal driving age. Many
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Under the Influence Driving is a privilege‚ and in many cases this privilege is abused. Some people don’t take driving seriously and this often results in terrible accidents. Other innocent people sadly become victims of this carelessness. The U.S banned several acts that result in accidents such as drinking under the influence. Driving while under the influence was banned because it affects the drivers’ concentration. Doesn’t texting while driving do the same thing? When a driver is texting his/her
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someday‚ it’s best to start off young learning” I didn’t know if I was more nervous than driving or driving along. So I took a deep breath in went through with it‚ I was doing well until I was coming around a curve in didn’t realize a mailbox was on side of a curb. Before I knew it “BANG” I ran into the mailbox‚ a fence‚ and a garbage can. The cause of that happening was because I was already nervous about driving; it was new to me by coming around a curb I was just getting use
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was only seventeen years old when the car accident happened. I was only seventeen years old when I was in for a rude awakening. I was only seventeen years old when death decided to knock on my door. I never truly valued the importance of how safe driving can save your life. First‚ I remember the house felt sickeningly cold‚ like a hospital waiting room. I remember the house was silent‚ but was disrupted by my older sister. “Get up! He’s not breathing!”‚ exclaimed Anny. I groggily sprung out of bed
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Are Parents To Blame For Their Teenager’s Distracted Driving? There will come a day when I will have to oversee one of the scariest encounters as a parent; when my youngster gets his drivers license. My toddler’s third birthday is right around the corner and I just enrolled him in preschool. Time is flying by at an incredibly fast rate and I’d prefer not to think of the trials my family will have to face when he is 16. That is the reason why it is important to be a good role model to my son
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which way. Will this happen to you‚ if self-driving cars become mandatory? Will you trust your life in the hands of a computer? Self-driving cars should not be mandatory for everyone and we should be able to choose if we want to drive
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Do you like having your parents driving you around where you need to go? Or having to go places on your parents time because their busy or too tired to drive? No teen want that‚ especially if they can drive themselves. They are trying to establish a new law that teen can get their licenses when they turn 18 when they are more responsible instead of 16. The 16 year old driving age should stay the same instead of trying to increase the age because it can teach teens more about responsibility‚ gives
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Texting While Driving In 2011‚ at least 23% of auto collisions involved cell phones which equal 1.3 million crashes. In the year 2009 alone‚ nearly 5‚870 innocent lives were taken due to careless driving while using a cell phone behind the wheel. In statistics of Oklahoma 2008 car crashes‚ 1298 accidents were cell phone related‚ nine of which resulting in death. Overall cell phones cause roughly a quarter of all accidents in the United States. “And a rough consensus between science‚ policy‚ and
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at 16”(Applying). This is a fairly young age and may not be the best‚ because teenage driving causes lots of accidents and deaths. Currently‚ there is lots of debate surrounding whether the minimum age to get a driver’s license should increase or not. One major piece of evidence answers this question‚ which is that car accidents are “the number one cause of death in teens”(Gregory). This shows that teenage driving is a big problem which is why something needs to change. Due to car accidents being the
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Issue Paper Thesis: Driving fast is very dangerous for peoples because it’s causes environment‚ vehicle‚ money‚ society and serious injury or death. Introduction: As a human we all like to drive fast because we think it is fun. But we should know that driving to fast also the third leading contributing factor in traffic crashes. So please now took a minute to think how bad is driving fast for our society and us? I think just by searching in your mind you can find by yourself that speeding could
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