you couldn’t? Imagine a sixteen year old who wants to help his family but he can’t drive to work because the legal driving age is eighteen and work is too far away to walk to. The legal age for driving should not be raised to eighteen because teenagers need to have autonomy‚ driving at sixteen can teach responsibility‚ and also transportation issues will arise. First‚ the driving age should stay at the age sixteen because teenagers need to learn autonomy. While driving they will learn to be more
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Sweet Sixteen Janessa Russell Brigham Young University-Idaho Author Note This essay was organized for Writing and Reasoning Foundations 101‚ Section 87‚ taught by Sister Owens. Sweet Sixteen Everyone wishes till the day when they finally turn sixteen. Well you know what that means right? Finally freedom with a car‚ which means no more having your mom drive you to the movies and having her pull over a block away just so you can hurry and get out of the car making sure no
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The 1986 film "Sixteen Candles" tells a timeless tale of growing up in suburban America. The film’s star‚ Sam‚ played by Molly Ringwald‚ wakes up with big expectations on her sweet sixteenth birthday only to be completely disappointed. Not only does she find that she looks exactly the same as when she was fifteen‚ but her family is so preoccupied with her older sister’s wedding that they forget her birthday altogether. The film opens with Sam on the phone with her best girlfriend Randy. She
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As a parent‚ do you really want to put your child at risk of death because of the lack of driving skills? Or even as a teenager‚ do you want to end your life early because you don’t know the proper rules of the road? I don’t think a teenagers life should ever be in danger because they aren’t sure how to do a correct left turn going into oncoming traffic‚ or how to yield at a yield sign. The driving age should be raised to eighteen so teens are more responsible‚ mature‚ and ready to take on a very
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The appropriate age for a teenager to obtain a driving permit is 16 years old‚ however I believe it should be raised to 17 since there is a high rate of teenagers causing accidents. There might be some exceptions why they should keep it at 16 but due to the high rate of teen crashes they should raise the age to 17. Statistics have shown that teenagers have a higher chance of accidents. Teenagers from the ages of 15 to 17 are more likely to cause a car crash for many reasons. While teenagers go out
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In my response the driving age should not be raised.This concern has been a problem then and still is today. The Driving age should not be raised ‚ one reason is 16 or 17 year olds drive everywhere in case of emergencies ‚ for work ‚ school and we shouldn’t take that away from them.If the 16 year old or 17 year old are trying to drive they at least should have a permit and should require it so that if they get stopped by a patrolling officer they know if they have the privilege to drive or not and
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crib. Then when they could ride a bike they would have a helmet‚ knee pads‚ and elbow pads to save them from getting hurt. However at age 16 they let their kid jump in a car and drive when they can get themselves killed by reckless driving. That is why the driving age needs to be raised so parents can protect their kids for a little longer. Rising the legal driving age would save teenagers lives. More than 5‚000 teenagers die each year in car accidents (Lund).That is too many minors dying each year
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and it was a 16 year old driving and it sounded like "Crash" "beep" "beep" said the news reporter. That is the main reason why I think that you should have to be 18 years of age to be able to drive. I would like to cover three main reasons why I think it should be changed. As you get older you get more mature‚ cautious ‚ and responsible. These are my three reasons why you should change the of driving age to 18. Being mature can have a big picture to do with driving. Becoming mature takes a long
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18 year old drives. With this research it seems that the restrictions placed on young drivers and the idea of raising the legal driving age would trade in one set of problems for a new set. So I say it is better to stick with the devil you know then the one you don’t. In many states‚ including California and Florida‚ restrictions have been
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