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Student Question | If Teenagers Are Such Bad Drivers, Should They Be Allowed to Drive?
MARCH 22, 2016 5:00 AM March 22, 2016 5:00 am
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, “Per mile driven, teen drivers ages 16 to 19 are nearly three times more likely than drivers aged 20 and older to be in a fatal crash.”
If teenagers are such bad drivers, should they be allowed to drive?
In “Teenage Drivers? Be Very Afraid,” Bruce Feiler recommends that one way to improve safety among teenage drivers is to get parents more involved:
Spend enough time having parenting conversations, as I’ve done personally and professionally for the last dozen years, and certain patterns emerge. In nine out of 10 cases, if you’re talking about highly motivated parents, the message to Mom and Dad is: back off, chill out, park the helicopter.
Whether you want your children to be independent, resilient, creative; whether you’re talking to teachers, psychologists, grandparents; whether you’re discussing homework, food, sports; the recommendation, time and again, is relax.
Recently, I stumbled onto a topic in which the advice was the exact opposite.
Among the people who know what they are talking about, the unanimous message to parents is: You’re not worried nearly enough. Get much more involved. Your child’s life may be in danger.
What’s the topic? Teenage driving.
“If you’re going to have an early, untimely death,” said Nichole Morris, a principal researcher at the HumanFIRST Laboratory at the University of Minnesota, “the most dangerous two years of your life are between 16 and 17, and the reason for that is driving.”
Among this age group, death in motor vehicle accidents outstrips suicide, cancer and other types of accidents, Dr. Morris said. “Cars have gotten safer, roads have gotten safer, but teen drivers have not,” she said.
Students: Read the entire essay, then tell us:
— If teenagers are such bad drivers, should they be allowed to drive? Why?
— Do you think it would make sense to raise the age that teenagers get full, unrestricted driver’s licenses from 16 and 17 in most states to 18 or even 20? Why?
— Do you agree with Mr. Feiler that parents should get more involved when it comes to their teenage son or daughter’s driving?
— Can you drive yet? Are you a good driver? Are your friends? Or do you think you will be a good driver when you’re old enough to get your license? Why?
— What do you think is the best way to make teenage driving safer?
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Mrs. mazzuca
Period 2
April 7th, 2016
Everyone keeps pinpointing bad driving at teenagers. What about people being in their twenties and older, driving drunk, speeding in a slow resident area? Its really not only teens that is bad at driving, it's everyone else as well. But, if teenagers are really that bad at driving, then yes I agree they shouldn’t be driving. Same goes for everybody else that's older. If they are bad drivers they shouldn’t be driving. For example, Eight teens die every day in DUI crashes, while people in their twenties have seventeen deaths everyday in DUI crashes.
It wouldn’t make sense to change the age to 18 for the fact, they still are teens. The only thing 18 does is give a little more responsibility. At age 18 more of them will be driving drunk. Freshly out of high school, and would have a party there will be alcohol people will be drinking. And driving home drunk. It don't even only have to be about drunk driving. It could be something else. But still people can be 18 and still act like they are 16-17. So please tell me what is it going to do if you change the age to 18?
Of course i agree with Mr. Feiler, parents should get more involved when it comes to their teenage son or daughter’s driving. For the fact they are until the age of maturity, if they know their child is not all that good at driving, why let them take the keys and go out?
Yes I’m able to drive. Got my permit on october 14, 2015 . going for my road test on April 14th at 3:30. Im good and safe driver. I dont know about my friend for the fact i never gotten in the car with them.