Driver’s education was established to help the new generation of drivers learn the skills of the road while being contained in a safe environment. Young teenagers enroll in driver’s education to learn the skills of the road in a classroom setting, all while remaining safe and secure. However, many teenagers are no longer attending driver’s education, and are waiting until they are eighteen to obtain their license. According to Cindy Antrican, a public affairs manager of AAA, “Being 18 does not make you a safe driver. Education, training and practice does. There’s no magic age to becoming a safe driver.” When drivers do not attend driver’s education, they will not be able to learn all the skills of the road that are required to keep drivers safe. In order to maintain safety on the roads, experience and education are the best tools to shape better drivers. In 2014, AAA performed a study that showed that teenagers who did not attend driver’s education were more likely to be involved in a crash or a traffic conviction than a driver who attended driver’s education. A trend in recent years shows that more young adults are attending driver’s education than teenagers; many teenagers do …show more content…
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The claim shows that there are dangers to stalling driver’s education, and that experience and training are the true keys to safety on the road. There needs to be stricter driver’s education laws within the United States that requires teenagers to receive the proper training via driver’s education. Driver’s education needs to be made mandatory if one wishes to obtain their driver’s license. If driver’s education laws are not reinforced and maintained, teenagers become a dangerous threat to be reckoned with while they are on the