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This 7 page paper examines the question of minimum and maximum ages for issuing driver’s licenses, and argues that the minimum age should be raised to 18. It also argues that there is no necessity to set some arbitrary age at which everyone has to stop driving, because people age differently. It does suggest that testing at frequent intervals after a certain age may be appropriate. Bibliography lists 6 source.
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and maximum ages to obtain drivers licenses were changed. Discussion The United States doesnt have a national drivers licensing law. Instead, its left up to the states to establish the
parameters for driving in that state. There are different ages in various states; some allow driving at 16, others are later. For example, the District of Columbia, along with seven
other states, doesnt license anyone under 18 (ODonnell et al). But since there are no national standards, any attempt to institute some sort of federal law is a non-starter. The
federal government could, however, make grants available to states for things like driver training programs that would encourage better driving habits. Teenagers in general are unsafe drivers, with 16-year-olds coming
in as the worst in the group. A typical scenario goes as follows: a 16-year old driver, male, is on a double date and hes speeding with the three other
teens in the car, in this case an SUV (ODonnell et al). He swerves to miss a stalled car on the interstate and rolls the top-heavy vehicle; he and the
other boy are injured but the girls are thrown from the vehicle and killed (ODonnell et al). This crash actually occurred and its description shows the factors that are common
in crashes involving teens: a 16-year old boy was driving; he was in an SUV; there was at least one other boy in the vehicle; it was night; he was
speeding; and nobody was wearing a seatbelt (ODonnell et al). USA Today found that "[M]ore than two-thirds of fatal single-vehicle teen crashes involved nighttime driving or at least one
passenger age 16 to 19" (ODonnell et al). Nearly 75% of all the drivers were male; 16 year-olds were the "riskiest of all. Their rate of involvement in fatal crashes
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