do you think people under the ago of 16 should be able to drive?

Question

why or why not? i dont think they should because they are too irresponsible at such a young age. if you are going to answer give me explanation!!

Answer 1

Okay, I have posted this answer on here before and I got a lot of thumbs down on the topic. But, here goes...I believe (and I will always feel this way) that a person (male or female) should not be able to drive until they are 18. I have a 16 year old son that I know for a fact is not able to drive. My Lord, he can barely even see over the steering wheel of a car. Its not that he is short or anything, he is just still so young. He doesn't have the mental capacity or the responsibility that it takes to be a driver on the road. Now you may be thinking that its just my son. Wrong...I know A LOT of 16 year old boys that are the same way. Now, lets look at the statistics...what do they say about the ages 16-17 drivers? Can you say alcohol related deaths, speeding deaths, reckless driving deaths, OMG...the list goes on and on.

I had to wait until I was 18 years old before I got my license. I had to wait because my family didn't have the money to pay for driving school. To be honest with you...it was hell on me, but, I am glad I waited. I wasn't ready to be behind the wheel of a vehicle at that age. I barely even did my homework without grumbling. You have to be responsible to be in control of a car. Today...16 year olds are not responsible. They just aren't.

Bring forth the thumbs down...I am okay with it. It is what I beleive in and you don't have to agree with me.

Seeing someone else’s answer brought me to another point... I was an EMT for a couple of years and I saw my fair share of their battered bodies on the road. Fortunately none of my calls were fatalities, but I heard about them all the time from others that I worked with.

Answer 2

Well im 16 and im getting my license in a week. And i dont think that people under 15-1/2 (which is the age you can get a premit) should be able to drive. 16 is like the perfect age, its more near to the end of your high school career and you have gotten to a point where you understanding what it means to be responible; im not saying that we're completely responible or anything. Yeah there are stupid people that do stupid things but thats just a handful, its not like everyone at my school drives crazy, just a couple but they ruin it for everyone; and thats not fair for the "good" drivers. Besides there are "bad" drivers in every age group, especially the older (like old) drivers. But its really about how responible each person is.

Answer 3

No way!! There was a story up here a couple of weeks ago of a 14-year-old boy who had crashed a car and killed the others who were in the car with him. The car was his, and how he was able to buy a car at 14, we don't know. They were all students of a boarding school east of Toronto, so they had money, but it was such a waste that these poor innocent kids were killed.

Even after I was able to drive legally, I could not drive by myself for about 3 months. One of my parents had to be in the car with me. I was 17 at the time and I'm 51 now.

Answer 4

I started driving on a farm license at 14.5, but that was as they say "back in the day". Kids today don't have enough between the ears to start driving before the age of 16 - and some don't have it then!

It's not that kids today are stupid - they're not. They just live in a time where we bubble wrap them from lifes hard lessons and everything is too easily accessed to require them to develop critical thinking skills and good old common sense.

Answer 5

It really depends on the child...but as a general rule, I would say no...
16 and under...your brain is not fully developed..your hand-eye coordination and ability to think quickly and avoid accidents is not formed well...children of this age seem to think they are "bullet proof" and nothings going to happen to THEM.....they are not responsible enough or mature enough to be given the keys to an automobile...it can become a "weapon" in the wrong hands...
My step-son thought he was a good enough driver to speed, talk on his cell, have his buddies in the car with the music up so loud you could hear him more than a mile away, and to prop one arm out the window...after two accidents (within a month of each other shortly after he turned 16) he found out he's NOT that great of a driver...he died at age 18 of an accidental overdose..yet another example of poor judgement and the thinking that he was immortal..
Kids have too many distractions these days..and IMHO..should NOT be allowed to drive without an adult over the age of TWENTY-FIVE until they are AT LEAST 18...

Answer 6

Nope, no way - brain is not fully developed, there are way too many distractions, most people that age are not responsible enough. Even if the law were changed, how many parents would actually allow someone younger to drive the car? Under 16, there is little to do to acquire and maintain your own car anyway....

A lot of the time, I am a little iffy on 16 year olds driving....

Answer 7

I think not. When you look at the statistics it will show that the younger you are the worse you drive. I can speak from experience that when I was younger and I`m talking sixteen through eighteen I was not a very good driver. I was too distracted by to many things. When we are that young we tend to worry about everything but what we are doing. I`m sure there are exceptions to the rule but NO bad very bad idea.

Answer 8

Absolutely not. Times have changed. We live in a society where adults refuse to hold their kids accountable and the majority of children do not understand consequences for their actions because of it. I am 45 and grew up in the country. All kids drove something as long as their feet reached the peddles because it was out of necessity. Tractors, combines, trucks and cars. We worked and were taught responsiblity very young. None of these kids were reckless. When they were old enough to legally drive it seemed the only kids who were reckless were the city kids who thought it was so cool to be driving a car. Then again, those kids were not reared to be responsible or accountable either.

Answer 9

NO. even 16 year olds drive insane! e.g., couple of teenagers were driving so fast and out of control in Vegas, they hit a light pole that split their car in 1/2:

The 1987 Ford Thunderbird that Ashley Troester was driving during a fatal accident on May 9, 2002, hit a light pole in the median so hard that it split in two. The 15-year-old girl and a front-seat passenger, Natasha Keeter, died in the wreck.
shley, died in May 2002 when the car she was driving without a license or learner's permit broad-sided a light pole while she and four other students were on lunch break from school. The wreck also killed front-seat passenger Natasha Keeter and injured back-seat passengers Kiley Quinn, Aleisa Valdez and Ashley Biersach, who lost a leg as a result of her injuries.

Answer 10

My son is 15 and has his learner's permit. My rule - as long as he's living in my house and/or I'm footing the bill for his college, etc - is that driving is a privledge, not a right.

Don't care what the law says - that's MY law. Sooooo, unless he earns a certain level GPA AND behavior in school and the home, forget it. He is at the stage where he loves to drive EVERYWHERE and if he's gotten poor grades/behavior reports that week from school or is slacking at home - NO DRIVING.

Once he has his license, even if he owns his own car, if any of those areas have been violated - I don't take his car.....I take his license.

My thinking is that a teenager who is responsible enough to maintain a B average at school, proper discipline, contributes to the home envioronment with good attitude and chores is at least as responsible as some of these CRAZIES on the road!!!