have proven to be incapable of obtaining respectable driving skills. According to “Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association‚” motor vehicle crashes were the leading cause of death among 13-19 year old males and females in the United States. Culpable for this statistic is the three main distractions: visual (taking one’s eyes off the road)‚ manual (taking one’s hands off the wheel)‚ and cognitive (takings one’s mind away from the driving task). Factors causing these distractions are cell phones
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Legal Age to Drink: Should it be Changed? In this day and age with more sophisticated teens and young people abusing alcohol‚ the issue concerning whether or not teenagers should be able to drink at a younger age is an important topic. In the article “Perils of Prohibition” Elizabeth M. Whelan argues that alcohol should be legalized at the age of eighteen instead of twenty-one. She hopes to persuade readers‚ parents‚ and educators to support her proposal for the change by successful alcohol
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victim of inexperienced teenage driving who adds to the high statistics on casualties resulting from inefficient laws. According to the teen driving statistics that are provided by the insurance companies‚ 16 year-olds are three times more likely to die in a motor vehicle crash than individuals who fall within the range of the average age of all drivers. Therefore‚ I think the legal driving age should be raised to 18. One thing I’ve found is that it isn’t necessarily the age‚ but that they are inexperienced
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Raising the Driving Age to 18 In the world today one of the most exciting parts of growing up is getting your driver’s license. Everyone counts on getting their sweet 16 car and license‚ but is that really the important part? Well yes as all teenagers would say. Even though it comes to losing their life because of inexperience‚ and immaturity on the road. There are lots of reasons why the driving age should be raised. ”All 50 states prohibit 16-year-olds from drinking alcohol‚ buying cigarettes
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COM 101 Argumentative Speech Legal Driving Age Raised I. To vote you have to be 18‚ to buy cigarettes you have to be 18‚ and to buy alcohol you have to be 21. So why is it that teenagers are able to drive at such a young age? Driving should be one of the privileges and responsibilities of adulthood. While some may say‚ it prepares them for adulthood and it’s essential for young people to have the ability to travel for their livelihood. But every year the same headlines occur‚ “High School
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ideas are that the driving age should be changed to 18‚ or to have graduated licenses (GDL’s). Instead of waiting until teenagers turn 18‚ it would be better to have GDL’s so that they have more driving experience‚ they would have a shorter waiting period than waiting until they are 18‚ and there would be more checkpoints to see how capable they are to drive. These are all reasons there should be GDL’s. The first reason there should be GDL’s is that
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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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Should the legal driving age be increased to 21 in Australia? To this date the legal driving age in Australia is 16‚ there has been a discussion throughout the community of increasing the legal driving age to 21 in Australia. Concerns of drink driving under the legal age limit had caused a sky-rocket in fatalities on the road in 2013 from drivers under the age of 20. With the age increased to 21‚ this means there will be fewer drivers on the road‚ which will cause less blocking on the road. Reasons
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Should We Raise The Driving Age To 18? Imagine yourself as a sixteen year-old. You just got your driver’s license‚ and are going to go cruising with your friends to celebrate. However‚ at about ten o’clock‚ your attention isn’t on the road‚ and you crash into another vehicle. Two of your friends die on scene‚ and your other friend is seriously injured. For thousands of teens each year‚ this is a reality. Sixteen year-old drivers are three times more likely to crash than seventeen year old’s
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minimum legal drinking age (MLDA)? Or‚ that in countries with the MLDA 18‚ there is a huge decrease in drunk driving accidents than in the USA? I believe that you can drink responsibly at eighteen; therefore‚ the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen. I believe the MLDA should be eighteen because when you are considered an adult and have many other responsibilities‚ the MLDA 21 is highly ineffective‚ and lowering the age would diminish the thrill of breaking the law. The drinking age should be eighteen
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