In this article by Donna St. George, titled “Teens Are in No Rush to Drive,” she writes about teenagers who are waiting to get their driver’s license. Teenagers in this day of age are more busy and have more to do. Be transport from place to place since being a child, teens are use to their parents driving them. With phones, teens have an easy access to the internet which makes them want to get on social media. Along with smartphones and texting that teens don’t need to get into a car and visit friends. With new laws and requirements getting licenses is a lot more complicated and time-consuming. Sixty hours of practice and 300 to 600 dollars for private driving schools. With gas and insurance for the car, it makes driving too much to afford
for some families.
In the news article ¨Is 16 Too Young To Drive A Car?¨ Robert Davis explains the science of of legal issues surrounding teen driving. To begin with, Davis points out many support raising the driver age in order to decrease the number of further car crashes involving 16 year olds. The Author Robert Davis also reports that politicians want to avoid inconvenient parents who would have to drive around their unlicenced teens. Also he describes teen drivers error are linked to undeveloped parts of the brain that thinks about the future, controls emotions, and manages designs. In addition the Author Robert Davis “graduated licensing” limit took teens driving priveleges until
In this article written by the author Bruce Feiler, titled “Teenage Drivers? Be Very Afraid”, he talks about how he suggest the parents to stop being helicopter parents and allow their children to be independent. However, other professionals’ suggestions are the opposite when teenagers start to drive. As a result of the teenagers’ immaturity, the parents are told to be more involved because their child’s life may be in danger. As stated in the article by Nichole Moris “the most dangerous two years of your life are between 16 and 17, and the reason for that is driving.” There are various factors that play huge roles through this phrase of the teenagers’ life: other passengers, cellphones, and parents. In 2013, under a million teenage drivers were involved in police-reported crashes, according to AAA. The accidents could have been more but many teenage accidents go unreported. As a result, one of their recommendations to the parents is to not allow their children to drive with other passengers: other passengers can big a huge distraction and could increase the rate of crashes by 44 percent. That risk doubles with a second passenger and quadruples with three or more. Furthermore, as technology has taken over teenagers’ lives, the parents should suggest to those teenagers who insists on using the phones that the only safe place for it to be: in a dock, at eye level, on the dashboard. The worst place is the cup holder, the driver’s lap, and the passenger’s seat. Next, professionals also suggest that the parents implement their own rule and even continue the ones like the graduated driver’s licenses regulations. This regulation includes restrictions like not allowing their children to drive between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. To
Maturity and rationalization is not yet achieved or experienced by teenagers. In the era of technology there are several distractions for drivers of any age to maneuver. Parents can play an educational role by enrolling their teen into a driver’s educational program. Some states require students to complete a comprehensive graduated drivers licensing (GDL) program prior to receiving their license. The brain function is still developing in teenagers and may impede the quick thinking process necessary to become a responsible driver. For the safety and welfare of teenagers the age requirement in Arizona for a driver’s license should be increased from 16 to 18 years of age.
Through out the years teenagers have been driving without a license. In this century teenagers are decreasing to get their license (Teens getting their driver license. (n.d.). Retrieved November 1, 2013, from ). Teenagers tend to think that just because they know how to pump gas press the brakes and rea...
Engines roaring and cars flying down the highway recklessly, racing to the finish. This is a stereotyped outlook on teen drivers. This however, is not the case. Teens don’t drive to race down the road. They drive for freedom. They drive to get where they need to be on their own. The driving age should not be raised to 18 because it takes away their feeling of freedom, Denies the access to needed transportation, denies experience, It puts additional stress on parents, and they need to be learning the driving skill while they’re young.
There are many new, young drivers in the world and some of them are just not mature enough to get behind the steering wheel of a car. After reading two essays about how some people want to raise the age of getting one’s driving license to 18. Others argue if teenagers should have graduated driver’s license (GDL).
Traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers across the United States. Accidents are caused when students don’t take Driver’s Education while they’re in school and wait to get their license at the age of 18. “Studies show that 1,651 drivers age 16 to 20 died in motor vehicle crashes in 2013.” That’s just two years ago and each year accident rates goes up rapidly. Youth don’t have the sources and the class time to take in all the information to help prepare them for the actual driving test. I argue and believe that Driver’s Education should be mandatory in schools now, and at a free cost. All teens should be able to take Driver Education classes at the high school they currently attend.
Driving is nearly an essential to our everyday lives in this day and age, as it is used to transport goods, information and ourselves to where they all need to be. More than 85% of Americans drive vehicles, and they have to start somewhere. For most Americans, that start is when they are 16 years old. At 16 years old, most Americans are in high school, likely working a job, living day to day to graduate and become an adult member of the population. At 16, driving is the ultimate freedom. At 16, new drivers sporting brand new licenses are a hazard. Historically, teens have been prone to get into accidents more than any other age group, and their statistic on their contribution to crash fatalities is disproportional to their contribution to their population statistic. In general, teen drivers are seen as a risk, a hazard and a concern due prominently to their relative inexperience. This raises the question of whether the driving age should be raised to reduce these risks and problems. But, a bill to make the legal driving age 18 should not be passed because a huge part of growing up and developing takes place with a teenager's new driver's license and car. Plus, raising the driving age isn't the only effective solution to avoiding the risks and maladies involved with teenage driving.
Driving a car and obtaining a driver’s license does perhaps seem to provide people with a great sense of independence and freedom. Teenagers need to feel independent in order to learn to become successful on their own as well as realize how to handle life situations on their own, and having a license seems the perfect start and most effective way to do so. When teenagers feel this independence they tend to act more mature, knowing the responsibilities they must now carry on their own (More4Kids). Teenagers often look forward to the freedom that driving offers as well. Teenagers are able to take drives to escape from life’s many stressed, and leave any troubles at home behind without rebelling out against their loved ones.
In the article by Donna St. George, titled “Teens are in no rush to drive,” she writes about teenagers who are waiting to get their driver's licences. Students have so much stuff to do now so they don't feel they have time for licences. With parents driving them around all their life they feel it's normal. Teens have so much to do on there phones now that they do not feel it necessary to get there licence. You have to go through a much harder process to get your licence and teens don't want to take the time. Parents are to pay 300 to $600 just for there teen to get there licence. money is a big problem for many families they have to pay for the car, gas money, and car insurance.
The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has released recent research that reveals the upsetting behaviors behind distracted driving among teen drivers. You may not know this, but the time period between Memorial Day and Labor Day, which we are currently in, is known as the “100 Deadliest Days” for teens. As more teenagers are out on the road during the summer months, the number of fatal crashes involving teen drivers increases to an average of 10 deaths every day! That is 16 percent higher than the rest of the year.
Most Americans over the age of sixteen have a license and drive a car. The problem being not everyone can handle their car in an elegant manor, most teenagers on the road do not have much experience on driving, especially in a stressful situation like trying to merge onto a busy roadway. The goal of this paper is to entice new drivers on practicing safe driving tactics, by providing numerous written reports, peer reviews, and articles establishing the fact that teens are not simply prepared to drive. Teens have been proven to get into more crashes than someone who is thirty or older. Since new innovations and technological advances
“Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of unintentional deaths for teens (16-17),” reported The New York State Department of Health. The most exciting thing about being sixteen in the United States is driving. Teenagers can not wait to be sixteen to drive, however, they do not understand the dangers that come with driving at such a young age. Sixteen is the age between child life and adulthood. It is a time when they are not stable and undergoing change, which makes them unsuitable to drive. Many teenagers would say that they need to get to places. In response to that claim, there are public transportation systems and bikes as available alternatives for young drivers. The financial stability and matureness of eighteen year olds proves
Eighteen year olds have learned to use precaution in driving from their peers and teachers to get a greater knowledge about the road. According to the National Highway Safety Administration said, "The rate of crashes per mile driven for sixteen year old drivers is almost ten times the rate for adults" (1). Indicating that adults are more responsible who are also precaution on the road then young adults. As a matter of fact, all fifty states prohibit youth from drinking alcohol, buying cigarettes, and purchasing handguns (4). But they are giving them a potentially deadly weapon, a car. Some parents believe that drinking alcohol, buying cigarettes, and purchasing handguns are going to harm their children. Not to mention, they do not know is that letting teenagers under eighteen drive an automobile without responsibility and precaution is
In today’s society, at the age of fifteen, most teenagers go to get their drivers permits. They hold the permit for six months with a curfew, and get to take their driver’s license test. To complete their test one has to take a computerized test and drive with an instructor for a short amount of time. It is way too easy to pass the test and the driving part is too quick and easy. When a teenage driver gets their license, the first thing they want to do is drive, by their selves. Peer pressure, friends, parents, and even school related stress can cause risks while a younger less experienced driver is driving. Even though, everyday young teenagers get their license handed to them, but with very little experience or training.