Is 16 too young to drive a car? By Robert Davis, USA TODAY
In this article, the author uses findings from brain researchers at the National Institutes of Health, and gave scientific reason why 16-year-old is too young to drive a car. It argued that 16-year-old is too immature to handle today’s car and roadway risks, because their brain, the part that weight risk, make judgments and controls impulsive behavior, is not fully developed.
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Deadly teen auto crashes show a pattern By Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY
This article gave many statistical data that collected from insurance institute and other relevant institutes, to show that 16-year olds are far worse drivers than 18-year-olds. It reviewed crash statistics and establish several patterns about teenager car crash. One of the patterns is that teens’ risk of dying increases when they’re riding with other teens. In the article, it also gave many examples of accident which really happened to make its theory more convincing.
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Driving age of 18 makes perfect sense (NZ Herald News)
A survey undertaken with 2300 people by the NZ Herald News, showed 80 per cent want the legal driving age raised to at least 18. It also simply stated the reason why the driving age in New Zealand should be increased. It says that many of those killed were young passengers in cars driven by their peers.
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This house would raise the legal driving age to 18 (idebate)
This site discussed whether the driving age should be raised to 18, and it provided both points for and points against the issue. It argued that driving age should be raised to 18 from four different perspectives. For example, young people are more likely to be distracted by mobile media devices than older people; young people are more likely to be involved in serious accidents.
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Young Driver Crash Facts 2011 (Ministry of Transport)
This is a report prepared by the Ministry of Transport. It contains summary of young driver crash data including statistics and graphs. It showed that young drivers aged 15-19 are much more likely to be involved in fatal or injury crashes. It also showed that the fatal crashes of young drivers often happened at night, especially on Friday and Saturday night.
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Teen drink-drive numbers falling (NZ Herald News)
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The age for drivers licenses should be raised from 15 years to 18 years?
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The minimum driving age should be raised to 18 (Debatewise)
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Raising the Driving Age Limit? (At-Risk Teenagers)
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What an interesting topic you have chosen! I think The most important issue is drunken driving of teenagers. The legal driving age is sixteen in NZ, and this has been causing many drunken driving problems of teenagers for following reasons.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, in NZ, unless you live in a big city where the public transportation systems are available, you have to drive to get somewhere. And if a teen goes to a party and gets drunk, but he or she have to go home soon, then he or she will be tempted to take a chance and drive home while drunk. Especially if he or she does not want his or her parents know that he or she has been drinking, then he or she will want to sneak into the house and will not call his or her parents to come and pick him or her up.
Another problem with teens, especially with boys, is that they are not capable of thinking the consequences of their behaviors. Often times, boys want to show off how wild, tough and daring they can be, especially in front of girls or other peers. This drives them to do many unwise things, including driving while drunk...