Driving Age Restrictions

Would you want your son or daughter involved in a car crash with a drunk 18 year old. Well, I stand up that teenagers should be able to drive at the age of 16. My reasons to this are that 16 year olds have restrictions that exclude as many distractions as possible and keep them safe on the road, parents want their children to be able to drive themselves, and it also gives teens the time to learn and experience the ways of driving.

Restrictions keep our young teens from becoming to distracted and potentially hurting others not just in the car, but on the roadways as well. Different restrictions have been set into place for novice drivers including limiting the number of passengers allowed into the vehicle, barring late night driving, and having the teens be temporarily placed under parental supervision. Due to these restrictions, they have caused 1,348 fewer fatal car crashes by 16 year old drivers. Another factor is the percentage of fatal car crashes by 16 year olds dropped due to the vigorous restrictions, states started to add more requirements for our young drivers. For example, states have input longer permitting times and Drivers Ed requirements. With keeping the driving age teens cannot be distracted by …show more content…
With their children driving parents can take a workload off of their shoulders; having to drive one or multiple teens around everyday until they reach the driving age. “What are you doing? Your going to make me drive my kid to the movies on Friday night for another 6 months”(Aubrey, pg.250). With keeping the driving age at 16, the teens can accomplish what they need to get done while the parents can focus on their own work. If we keep the driving age at 16 it will let the teenagers be able to have a car and drive in college rather than having them become licensed in college.This also create a inconvenience in some parents who are exhausted of driving around all day doing their adolescents