driving age
...time to take their children to school functions, to their friend’s house, or even to an after school. After all, teenagers are too old for babysitters. This is a valid reason to keep the age where it currently is, it to have its flaws. If parents don’t want to be responsible for carting their children around, it takes up to much personal time, and is just an overall inconvenience then maybe they should have become parents. Parents are just as responsible if their child goes to jail for vehicle man slaughter because more then likely the family that lost a love one will seek retribution. What if the child becomes permanently disable? Someone will have to be responsible to take care of them. What if the unthinkable happens and they die? Funeral costs are not cheap. Out of eighteen European countries only four of them are for the driving age of seventeen and the rest are eighteen years old. None of them allow drivers to be sixteen. Countries like Germany which develop and produce the world renowned BMW vehicles have a driving age of eighteen. Makers of high end sports cars like Ferrari out of Italy also require drivers to be eighteen years old. These countries not only produce some spectacular vehicles, but they know that you need to be responsible to operate such machinery Buy raising the limit the United States will also produce much more responsible drivers. They will have a lot longer training period. As the old saying goes “practice makes perfect.” This will still allow a permit at sixteen, and then a restricted license at seventeen. Once a driver reaches the age of eighteen they will have the opportunity for a full license. At the age of sixteen there is still a lot to be learned. That is why you are unable to vote at sixteen. The brain is still going through a development process. Predictably, drivers in the 16-20 year bracket have the highest number of moving violations — 21 per one million miles driven. As drivers get older the...