Legal Driving Age Analysis

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In 2014, 2,270 teens in the United States around the ages 16–19 were killed in a motor vehicle accident. (_) In the United states the legal driving age for young teens is 16 years of age. This is extremely young for a person to be handling a vehicle that could potentially hard someone or even take one's life. The United States should increase the driving age for young teens from 16 to 18 because, a 16 year old has less experience than someone at a older age, one cannot take responsibility for as a minor, and finaly a person normally can not provide for themselves on their own and will have to rely on their parents or others.
At the ages of 16-18 a person, either a young boy or a young girl is just learning how to grow up and mature. They are
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Being a minor has more rules than someone over the age of 18 but has less harsher consequences than those over the age of 18. Teens who obtain a licence for the first year are allowed to only have only one person in the car with them that is not a family member. This rule is put into place by the ( Texas Department of Public safety) because it is trying to allow teens drivers to not be as distracted, but how many of those teens actually follow this law. When one is a minor they do not recienceve as harder consequence and normality can slide by with only a warning if they are caught and they know this. As a minor driving, people try and give you the benefit of the doubt but that doesn't excuse the fact that one is putting everyone else around them in …show more content…
This is where parents are involved. Parents normally help their kids out with almost anything they need however this is not always the best thing. Young teens think it is ok for them to drive recklessly and carefree without a care in the world because if something were to happen their parents would help them out. If a young teen driver was to receive a ticket for going too fast, most of the time they would be in trouble at home but probably not have to pay for the ticket or thinks that it just goes away. When you receive any kind of ticket it stay on your record. When one is 18 they normally are more responsible and more economically independent and can take care of their mistakes without having someone hold their hand every step of the