Do you think the legal age for driving should be higher or lower than the lagal drinking age?

Question

support your opinion with explanation.

Answer 1

The Driving age should be lower because good driving skills require experience and knowledge. So people should start driving at as early an age as possible. To get the experience that is needed to become good drivers. Maturity has very little to do with good driving. For example, someone could be very mature, and yet still be a crap driver.

OTOH the drinking age needs to be higher. Because getting drunk doesn't require any skill or knowledge. However maturity is a plus for responsible drinking. Pretty much teens prove time and time again, that they can't handle drinking. Below is just one example today:

Answer 2

Higher. I'm 19 now and I believe the age to drink should be 18 and the age to drive should be 21. As people have said before about this question, people mature through college, and besides that I'd rather hand some random kid a bottle of booze than a 2000 pound hunk of metal that can go 120 mph.

Sure some people think it's a great idea to give a kid a car right when he starts experimenting with drugs and alcohol, but as for me, my kids getting a bicycle till he moves out. I'd rather have him puking in the toilet in my own home than dead trying to get back after a party.

Answer 3

Because the link between alcohol and vehicular accidents & homicides has been strongly determined, I think that the rational solution would be to abolish alcohol altogether and replace all alcoholic beverages with banana milk-shakes.

As an aside, the whole argument about people drinking below 21 anyway sounds so bogus... People do a lot of things anyway that the law prohibits, but that doesn't mean we should change those laws.

And the driving age should be highered to 16 and the driver's education in this country should be made harder like Germany. Driving is serious business.

Answer 4

actually, the age to start LEARNING (keyword) to drive should be 14, but u also need 3 full years before road testing for the license. its just that, the book cant substitute actual road experience for this situation vs that situation. pick the wrong choice, and it could be the end of u and someone else.

alcohol is a very sinister thing. it will sneak up on u and when it gets its hooks in u, trying to break free wont be easy. btw, there is such a thing called alcohol tolerance. a friend of mine that weighs 150 pounds can easily put a full 12 pack of beer away by himself....after 3 beers, i'm gettin a very good buzz on, and i weigh 190. my friend is an alcoholic also; he started drinking before 17, and he's close to 40 now.

driving and drinking: this just doesnt mix.....ever. in ohio, a teen that rings .02 on the bac meter is considered dwi. for adults, its .08. we would save alot of lives if the limit for dwi was .04 actually.
i just read that puerto rico just lowered the bac for bikers.....car drivers is .08. bikers is now .02. excessive? not a chance in my book. if u are not 100% straight when on 2 wheels, that bike will bury u. all it takes is 1 mistake on some bikes, and that will be ur last mistake.

Answer 5

Our eating age is so extreme because of the fact the Feds needed a uniform age. some States was once 18, yet different States refused to diminish it from 21. So the Feds went with 21. Now to confirm it stayed a State difficulty they simply threatened to pull investment if the State did not pass alongside with it. the reason it won't decreased anymore is with the help of the fact the ideas remains coming up, even at 21, and you may not argue to kill coming up brains very effectively in Congress.

Answer 6

I think the legal driving age should be lower than the legal drinking age.

Answer 7

I think it should be the same age. In places like Korea, its the opposite. You can drink before you can drive. There was a foreign exchange student that was 18, but to us he was 17 because they count birth as 1 year, but he had to wait 3 more years to drive. Now, my opinion, Alcohol should be banned. Its worse then Weed. When people smoke weed, they want to just be lazy and eat, when people drink, people die cause of stupid decisions. But its hard to say.

Now, logically speaking, you should be able to drink when your 16 and drive when your 21. Therefore you can establish safe drinking habits first. Then again, kids would probably not drink but drive instead. They have a tendency to do whatever is the opposite of what their told. Its retarded.

So yeah, in short, Drinking age should be 16, driving should be 21.

Answer 8

I agree with the age of 16 years old to drive, with restrictions. at that age, most are mature enough to understand the power of being behind the wheel. There are some who are not. Lets just hope that we can get through more kids heads that they are not invincible and can die just like everyone else in a car wreck.

Answer 9

Higher! Sorry kiddies. There are an insane amount of kids that get: alcohol poisoning, under age, dui's.....so on and i think it is because one of there older Friends buys it for them. If the legal drinking age was higher, the people of legal age would be more mature.

Answer 10

The legal driving age in my opinion should be 18 and the drinking age should stay where it is