Driving teens continue to rampage on the road, crashing into cars, trees, and people. But is that really all there is to it? Despite the many accidents young, teenage drivers cause, their driving age should not be lowered. Because of a loss of driving experience, older teens hijacking the system, and the improvement of regulations and rules for new drivers, the age limit should not change for teens to drive.
Many people believe in raising the driving age to push back the number of accidents. While teenagers are still in development, not letting young teenagers out on the road to learn and experience the driving world will not help. They start at such a young age to gain knowledge at a time at which they are the most impressionable. On page 257, author of “Fatal Car Crashes Drop for
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Instead of letting the teenagers run buckwild out on the roads, There are laws limiting what a person can do, slowly giving drivers more freedom and experience on the road. Aubrey writes, “States have made the licensing process more rigorous in many ways: longer permitting times, driver’s ed requirements, and restrictions on nighttime driving and carrying fellow teenage passengers. Experts say all of these requirements help give teenagers the experience they need on the road. “In the last 15 years, we’ve made great strides in getting the licensing process to do a better job in helping teens get through it safely,” says McNaull.” (Page 256) This shows that the government has made improvements to keep people out on the roads safer from teenage drivers. This is shown in the statistic Aubrey shows, “They found that tougher licensing laws have led to 1,348 fewer fatal car crashes involving 16-year-old drivers.” This is a huge step forward to the original licensing laws, protecting teenage drivers, the cars around the, and the passengers within