Driving serves has the bridge between being a kid to being a man. Since the 20s the age requirement has stay the same in many states and over the last 20 years car crashes have come down austronomically between tennagers ages 15 - 20. With all this information at hand people are still trying to get the minimum wage raise for having a license to 18. The minimum age to get a licensed should not be raise.
Raising the age to have a license would have horrific consequence. First off if the government raise the minimum age to drive what would happen to all the kids who just got their licenses or all the kids who are about to get their licences? Also in America we have a permit system in which kids earn it a year before they drive so they can practice so when they earn their driver license they know how to drive. ¨To get a broader perspective, Dr. Masten and his
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In New Jersey, a study of deadly crashes did not look specifically at 21-year-olds; they were mixed into a larger group of 20- to 24-year-olds. But the research still found a 10 percent increase in deadly crashes in that group after New Jersey’s tougher graduated driver licensing program was instituted, suggesting that 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds may be waiting out the tough restrictions there as well¨.(¨Source 2¨) This shows that we need not to make the driving age higher. The same people who say the drivers factuallies are high between 15 -20 years old fail to realize that we have least fatal car crashes, fatal multi car crashes, and fatal single car crashes(¨Table 2¨) This proves that teens are better off than adults when it comes to