Adding two years to the legal driving age could make a big difference, and would not hurt anyone. At 18 years old, most teens are graduating high school, and maybe even moving on to college. Maturity levels at 18 years old are usually higher than maturity level for a 16 year old. Also, it would help to make it harder for teens to get their license. These days, teens are not required to have much experience to be given a license, which is why we have so many fatal car accidents.
Instead, a good idea would be to increase the amount of time a teen needs a permit for, in order to get more experience before actually getting a license. Advocates of raising the driving age often cite immaturity as a reason that the sixteen to eighteen age group has so many crashes. This is the part of the problem that raising the driving age will best address, but not all young drivers are immature. It would be unfair to punish the group as a whole for the actions of a few. Besides, there is already a way to prevent teens from driving before they are ready.
Young Drivers and the law The effectiveness of achieving justice in law reform can be accessed through several issues. One of many important issues that can be achieved in justice and also as well as law reform is through young drivers and the law. Justice can be achieved from many factors within young drivers on the road a few would be night time restriction and the number of passengers carried, speeding and drink driving etc... Our first issue that can be achieved in justice through law reform is young drivers having accidents at night and the number of passengers carried. During night time hours all drivers increase crash risk, but it is inexperience young drivers who are more likely to have greater risk in fatal accidents during the hours of the night. It has shown in statistic, that the highest risk of death for young drivers involved in fatal road crashes occur mostly during night time, particularly near midnight and into the early morning hours and especially during these times on weekends.
Every teens dream is to be able to drive his or her own car! I’m one kid who wants to drive at 16; but some people want to change the driving age to 17, even 18. Driving can be a rite of passage for some kids. It gives teens some freedom; it lets them help their parents out when needed, and gives them their own space! The driving age should stay at 16 in Washington State for a number of reasons.
Other countries with low drinking ages do not have major health problems concerning alcohol and their young adults, thus proving alcohol is not necessarily unhealthy for developing young adults. The Federal Government should lower the legal drinking age to eighteen because citizens are treated as adults at eighteen so they are mature enough to vote, get married, go to war, and be prosecuted as adults so they should be able to buy alcohol. The law pushes students to drink in private places to avoid trouble, and with adults non-existent, inexperienced heavy drinking, assault, and sexual misconduct is far more likely to occur. Students find it very hard to get along with college faculty and police officers because of the harsh penalties students receive from them. Among young adults the high drinking age is a very unpopular law, thus faculty and police who are responsible for the enforcement the law become unpopular, creating animosity between students and their officials.
Teens often believe that if they are able to vote and be sent to war than they should be able to consume alcohol. This is often a huge debate between many people. What most of these teens don't know is that the drinking age at one time was eighteen. However, the government saw problems with teens drinking and they decided to raise the legal drinking age to twenty-one. There are many incentives out there for states whose drinking age is still under twenty-one.
Lowering the drinking age would increase the teen alcohol related car crashes each year. People like to think if you can serve in the war and risk your life you should be old enough to drink. Or since Europeans let their children drink, our American children should be allowed to drink as well. What most people don’t know
They believe that by making the drinking age a lower age, alcohol would become more accepted in American society and it would encourage more people to engage in drinking, at a younger age, as well as adults. Mothers Against Drunk Driving fight for keeping the drinking age at 21 because their organization believes that a younger drinking age would result in more drunk drivers. They think that the younger people are who are legally aloud to drink, the more irresponsible America’s alcohol-drinking people will be. Also, some people think that lowering the drinking age to 18 will result in more youth participating in binge drinking. When people binge drink, they are more likely to engage in other illegal
The legal driving age for teenagers and young adults is a hot topic today, and there are many varying and valuable opinions on this issue. While I am not an expert in all the statistics and different factors that go into making this decision, I believe that my position as a teenager is one that should be taken into account, as it is my generation that will be affected by these changes. While there are valid arguments for raising the legal driving age to 21, I believe that leaving the legal driving age at 16 would be the best choice, because age is not the real issue, raising the age will lead to teen dependency, and there are better ways to solve this problem. It is a fact that the leading cause of death for 15 to 24 year olds is auto accidents, and that they are the only group where this is true. However, car crashes are the leading cause of accidental death for anyone over 4 years old!
There are many people who think the driving age should be raised to 21, they say that people who start driving at 21 are less likely to be involved in crashes. That may be true. But if you stop teens from getting their driver licence until they turn 21 it would cause huge problems with our everyday lives. Their will be teenagers who cant go anywhere. Teens who have jobs wont be able to drive to work, they will have to rely public transportation and their family and friends.