How do you get to school, a job, or just hang out with your friends? More than likely someone drives or picks you up and brings you to the destination. The driving age should remain the same because, at sixteen, more responsibilities are given out. Which brings up the first point the increasing responsibilities that sixteen-year-olds are given.
“Parents, unsurprisingly, are just as upset as their children about the proposal. Parents just don't have the option of driving their children around. Until a state gets a viable mass transit system, that issue won't go away (Northern Star Online)”. If the driving age is raised than younger people won’t have a viable way to get to jobs or school. Which in turn would increase dependency upon the parents of the teenagers who need to get to jobs, or other recreation? Now onto the next point if the driving age is changed it only would change the age group of where the problems occur.
“It’s likely that if we simply raise the driving age, we will only shift the
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A 16-year-old is almost twice as likely to die in a car crash than a 30-year old(Drive Safely.net)”. It may be true that sixteen-year-olds cause more accidents, but that is mainly because of lack of experience. The only way to increase the experience of younger drivers it to let them drive and let them make the mistakes that everyone undoubtedly makes when they first start driving. To summarize raising the driving make no sense after everything is considered.
In conclusion raising the driving age would only bring up more problems and wouldn’t solve anything. In all three of the points above, there has been one thing that keeps coming up and that is changing the driving age wouldn't solve anything. All it would do is just change the area of the problematic drivers, not solving a single thing. Now that you have heard these points you know what has to be done, now go out and do