Driving Age
Keep Driving Age
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But newer generations wouldn't start training until the amount of time before they start training as it would be if it was kept the same, drivers ed class would be moved up to a different grade because they think it's useless to do it 2-3 years before they have to do it. Side: Keep Driving Age
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Some kids think that driving is just a game. If kids get educated and told that driving is much more than a game at a younger age, then there will be fewer car crashes. The kids will know that driving is more than a game and people can get seriously hurt in driving. Side: Keep Driving Age
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To counter this, there are way more than a handful of bad drivers and it's not even bad drivers there are just a lot of drivers that don't take it seriously and cause accidents. Evidence for this is 16-year-old drivers have more accidents per highway mile than any other age group. This shows that teens should not be behind the wheel at age 16 because that's the best time for accidents. Source: John M. Crisp. More evidence is, 15% of all drivers in fatal crashes are between 15 and 20. This percent shows that we need to raise the driving age to reduce fatal crashes. Source: CSMonitor Side: Raise Driving Age
John M. Crisp states, studies show that risky behavior affects 16-17-year-olds just as much as males into their early twenties even. Even though it say males into their early twenties, risky behaviors would still affect women after 16 or 17, just maybe not into their twenties. Side: Keep Driving Age
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We shouldn't change to driving age because that wouldn't make a difference. One article says sixteen-year-olds crash more then eighteen-year-olds but that isn't a fair argument because eighteen-year-olds have more experience in driving then a sixteen-year-old so raising he driving age would make new drivers older and with as much experience as the sixteen-year-old had. Therefore raising the driving age is not the solution to the problem here, so we should keep the driving age as is and find a different resolution. Side: Keep Driving Age
You say that if we change the age the crash number will go down but I disagree the higher the age for drivers the more experienced they are. Because 18 years old is technically an adult so they are more experienced and smarter about being adults. While 16 years old are teens that have not had their brain fully grown. Therefore, The age should be changed for all age drivers safety. Side: Raise Driving Age
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To counter claim this, it does make a change, you're saying and extra two years wouldn't make a difference? The extra two years gives the students an opportunity to get more comfotrable and make sure they feel strong and it will make the students less stresed. Side: Raise Driving Age
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You start learning to drive a year before you can get your license meaning they would have as much experience in the car as a 16-year-old if the age was raised to 18. So saying that they would be more comfortable is a false statement. What you think is people should learn to drive sooner and gain more supervised experience and lessons. Side: Keep Driving Age
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We should not raise the driving age. It is way easier on the parents. Kids will be able to drive to school. That will help their parents because then their parents don't need to drive them or pay for bussing. Also, Kids can drive home from their friend's house on a Friday night. That is why the driving age shouldn't be raised. Side: Keep Driving Age
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I can see why you say this but that is so dumb. The reason why kids get into accidents is because they are inexperienced. What will it help them if they are 18. They are still new to driving. The only thing that would help them would be if there are more driving lessons. How would it help them if they are still inexperienced at the age of 18? Side: Keep Driving Age
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People say you could just take the bus to school but what about after school. After school parents would have to bring them to practices after school all the way throw high school because they could not drive them self to school. They would have to have their parents bring them to the practices. Or the age could be 16 and the kids would bring their self to practice some of the days or years in high school. Side: Keep Driving Age
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One reason why I believe the driving age should stay the same is because of the inconvenience that the kids and the parents share. Kids will need some sort of transportation when they are in high school and parents do not want to be the ones to transport them everywhere. They will need to go places such as school, friends houses, sports tournaments/games, and jobs. Most kids around the U.S start working at age 16. Parents have had to drive their kids around for 16 years. They probably do not want to wait until they are off to college for them to start driving. A reporter, Aj Rox, says, "The majority of parents have to take their kids to other activities, they don't have time to chauffeur their kids around to different high school events." (Evidence from me and a reporter AJ Rox.) Side: Keep Driving Age
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I believe that the driving age should stay the same. Raising the driving age could cause more inexperienced drivers on the road. It is a known fact that when you are younger you adapt to things more quickly. Even at the age of 16 you could learn things more quickly than an 18-year-old. Such as driving. (Evidence from the article "Should the driving age be raised to 18?" by Alex Koroknay-Palicz.) Alex Koroknay-Palicz, a worker in the National Youth Rights Association says on the NO side of the article, "Should The Driving Age be Raised to 18", "Studies show that it is inexperience, not age, that causes accidents. Raising the driving age will just create inexperienced, accident-prone drivers at age 18 instead of 16." Side: Keep Driving Age
They say that raising the driving age could cause more inexperienced drivers on the road but as you age the more mature you are. Evidence for this is, age 16 is when the peer pressure is raised which leads to more immaturity. The brain is still developing its skills to make decisions and solve problems. Source: Aspen Education Group. More evidence is, the 3 best ways to keep teens safe when driving is increase seat belt use among teenagers, implement graduated driver license and reduce teens' access to alcohol. These changes aren't going to happen soon so we need to reduce the driving age. Source: Aspen Education Group. Therefore, the driving age should be raised because 16 year olds are not mature enough. Side: Raise Driving Age
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Learning at an early age. Kids could think that driving is a game, having seen it in video games and on TV. If the kids start driving at age 16, then they would learn at a younger age that driving is much more than a game. If you learn something at a young age, then you will become more experienced in that field when you get older. This will put more experienced drivers on the road, making for less car crashes. Side: Keep Driving Age
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One reason why I believe that the driving age should stay the same is because the teenagers need to learn the responsibility of driving while still under their parent's control. Teens need to know how to take care of a car and stay safe while in it when they are still under their parent's roof. They need to know this before they go off to college and need to know how to drive right away. If the teenagers misuse a vehicle, the parents can punish them and not just have them pay a fine. The parents can help them understand what they did wrong and how to fix it. Plus, the insurance is cheaper with a teenage driver driving. (All evidence from CNN and the article,"Misusing Vehicles") Side: Keep Driving Age
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Let's think about keeping it fair. I don't think that anyone thinks that it is fair to raise the driving age because kids got in an accident. What about the kids who haven't even started driving. It isn't fair that they get punished for something someone else did, what happened to someone else. Side: Keep Driving Age
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Some people say that the driving age should be change such as the kids brains are not yet developed or there would be steeps to driving with people if you had the driving age changed. I think the driving age should not be changed for many different reasons. There has been many different talks about wether or not there should be a change in the driving age. I think the driving age should not be changed for many different reasons such as, it does not matter what age they are, It still would not teach them the right way to drive or work, lastly they would not be able to drive their self-places. It does not matter how old they are. It does not matter how old they are most of the crashes at the young age is just because of inexperience. You would just be delaying the time that they will be inexperienced. If they raise it up the time that they are new is just being delayed to a later day and year. (A.J. Rox, pg1, 2016) Also it would not teach kids the right way to drive or work if you raise the age limit. "In fact studies show that most adults start drinking heavily at the age of 18." If you were to raise the driving age to 18 the kids will not be taught the right way to drive because they think that it is okay to drive when they are drunk because they did it at a young age. Another thing they will not be able to drive them selfs to a job so at a young age the kids will not learn work ethic and how to work hard. If kids are not working hard well they are young when they get older they will not know how to work hard in their job when they are older. Lastly the kids would not be able to drive them selfs to different places. Such as if the kid had a practice of some sort in high school and their parents have to work so they have to get them selfs to the practice. If you do not go to so many practice you might be off the team and you would be off the team because you could not get to practice. Also the kids will bot date a lot in high school because they can not drive their self there. They will date a lot in collage and will be inexperience and date way to much in collage such as if it was like high school if they had a car. Side: Keep Driving Age
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You say if you raise the driving age limit you would have more experience. But I disagree it should be the same because when you would change the driving age you would not give them more experience you would just be delaying the inexperience time and not giving them more experience. Says A.J.Rox. Side: Keep Driving Age
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We should raise the driving level because adults at 18 to 19 are more mature about the safety of driving than 16 years olds that are not making the most mature decisions. Therefore, we should increase the age, or our roads will stay dangerous for drivers of all ages. Side: Raise Driving Age
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"more experienced cause they got the extra year or so of learning", your 16 and you get your license with no training other than drivers ed, your chances of dying are high, your 18 and after the law has been raised, you get your license, you sill have the exact same chances of which if you were 16. I've said it posted it once before and I'll post it again. Side: Keep Driving Age
Teens can be irresponsible. Humans brains are more developed at the age of 18, which means you will be more responsible. That will then reduce the amount of multitasking drivers, says John M. Crisp of Scripps Howard News Service. John also states raising the age won't fix everything, but it's a message to teens that handling several thousand pound machines is serious business. Side: Raise Driving Age
Essay writing tips agree's, not starting to drive until the age of 18 is also environmentally friendly. If teens don't start until 18 that's two years of co2 emissions that have been avoided. Now if the whole world did this our problem with co2 would be a lot smaller. In addition, a car releases about 20 pounds of carbon dioxide per gallon. Think about how much that would add up to in two years! Side: Raise Driving Age
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They say the changing the driving age is pointless and will only do worse for American teens but I think it can make a difference if we give it a try because first, teenage driving is causing death. In December 2005, four teens from Chicago went out for a late night drive and got into a horrible accident. Two of the four teenagers were killed that night, a 16 and a 17-year old. Along with that, between 1995-2004, there were 30,917 fatalities that involved 15-17-year olds. The second reason that the government should raise the driving age is because it not only affects the teenagers but it also affect other poeple. For example, Daily Mail stated that a 26-year-old doctor was killed by a teenage driver and she was affected by that and her family was very sad. Her mother said, " I loved Margaret from her first breath and I will love, mourn and miss her until my last." Another piece of evidence is that if the government does change the driving age there will be fewer deaths because as teenagers become adults they mature and are more responsible for the choices they make. The last reason that the legal driving age should rise is because it's a huge factor to safety, a lot of people think it's always about safety but it is a very important part of our daily life. When teenagers get into accidents about 2/3 of the people who are killed are pedestrians, passengers and people in cars that teenage drivers strike. Another reason why it's a huge factor to safety is because teenage brains aren't fully developed yet so everytime they go on the road it's a risk to them and those around them. Eventhough it is always a risk to go driving for anyone, there is less of a chance for a 30-year old than a 16-year old to get into an acciedent. Therefore, the legal driving age should rise to 18 because teenage driving can cause death, it not only affects the teenagers but it also affect other poeple and it is a huge factor to safety. Side: Raise Driving Age
They say that raising the driving age is pointless but I believe that the driving age should be raised because it can cause death. Evidence for this is, 4 boys from Chicago were driving on Dec. 29th. The car spun out of control and the boys hit multiple objects on and off the road. That left leaving the driver, a 16-year-old, and his friend, 17, dead. The 2 other boys didn't die but had many injuries. Source: Representative John D'Amico. He also states that "All 50 states prohibit 16 you olds from drinking alcohol, buying cigarettes, and purchasing handguns. Yet somehow most states are willing to put them in charge of a car, which could potentially be a deadly weapon." This shows that states prohibit most of the teen death factors except driving which could have the most percentage in some situations. Side: Raise Driving Age
If we don't raise the driving age you will be increasing the deaths in teens. Evidence for this is, 4 boys from Chicago were driving on Dec. 29th. The car spun out of control and the boys hit multiple objects on and off the road. That left leaving the driver, a 16-year-old, and his friend, 17, dead. The 2 other boys didn't die but had many injuries. Source: Representative John D'Amico. He also states that "All 50 states prohibit 16 you olds from drinking alcohol, buying cigarettes, and purchasing handguns. Yet somehow most states are willing to put them in charge of a car, which could potentially be a deadly weapon." This shows that states prohibit most of the teen death factors except driving which could have the most percentage in some situations. Side: Raise Driving Age
I say that we should raise the driving age because one the car could be a weapon in some cases. In all 50,states people prohibit kids from using drugs, and handguns and those are weapons to others. We shouldn't let young teens have a car that can kill people. Side: Raise Driving Age
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She says that they should raise the driving age because there have been more accidents with young teens than adults. But I disagree because I believe that the driving age should not rise because there will be more accidents with the 18-year-alds. I think this because it is a known fact that when you are younger you adapt to things more quickly. Even in two years they could learn things more easily than an 18-year-old. As such as driving. Alex Koroknay-Patlicz says that kids who start driving at age 16 are going to be at the same level of driving as an 18-year-old who is just starting to drive. There is not going to be more of an advantage to the 18-year-old because they are 2 years older. Therefore, I believe that the driving age should not be risen because it is not going to prevent more accidents from happening. Side: Keep Driving Age
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We should have the age higher for drivers to get there license. I say this because kids at a young age like 16 are care and reckless. Studies show that at the first month when kids get there license, More accidents occur through that time period through out out the whole year. Also, drivers ed isn't enough, "You only read a book. And get on the road once and that's on the small roads, but what happens when you get on the highway, you'll panic, and once isn't enough and doesn't teach them enough about road safety. Also raising the age can reduce obesity. So far sense driving ages haven't gone up. There have been a increase of 66 percent for obesity. Also if the ages get raised higher, to like 18, the kids could be more active and fully grown and more experienced cause they got the extra year or so of learning. Also if they don't raise it, the kids are still immature and will try to show off and eventually get killed, and will be distracted more easily and will text while they drive cause they think they will be cool until they don't notice there about to run a red light and get demolished. Also 16-year-old's don't know about diving, they don't know enough about it and they can get in a crash because they didn't know if they could go or not and that will not result in a happy way. But now if they raised it, kids would get the extra help they need and that gives them time to be more mature and which will lead to paying attention more. Side: Raise Driving Age
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"more experienced cause they got the extra year or so of learning", your 16 and you get your license with no training other than drivers ed, your chances of dying are high, your 18 and after the law has been raised, you get your license, you sill have the exact same chances of which if you were 16. Side: Keep Driving Age
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We should have the age of driving raised because kids at a young age are reckless. Studies should that at the first month when kids get there license, more accidents occur than ever throughout that year, also drivers ed isn't just enough, "You only read a book and get on the road once, that's not enough experience. See if we had the age higher, we would have more opportunities to get on the road and learn more about the road Side: Raise Driving Age
It's dangerous for 16-year-olds to drive. In 1995 through 2004, 30,917 people were killed by 15-19-year-olds, these people include the drivers and other citizens nearby. States the AAA Foundation for traffic safety. Traffic deaths are also the leading death cause for American teenagers, accounting for one-third of teenage deaths, says the Center for Disease Control. Side: Raise Driving Age
I say that we should raise the driving level because teens are not ready for the responsibility. One piece shows that between 1995 to 2004 30,917 fatalities in accidents are teens ages 15-17. Therefore, we should raise it to 18 years of age because young adults are more responsible and will make the fatalities count go down. Side: Raise Driving Age
To counter this, I say "18-20 aged people were involved in more than 800,00 crashes." (Driving age shouldn't be raised). So what does this mean then? 18-20, hmmm, wait that's the age you want to raise it too, and their's more crashes too, maybe if we keep it, the extra actual driving experience will make use. Side: Keep Driving Age
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