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Originally Posted by Kuan
What is it trying to solve? Anyone have any idea?
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Statistics show that young, and inexperienced drivers tend to get into more accidents when:
1. they are driving around with their friends in the car; and
2. they are driving late at night.
The reason for #1, above is that other young passengers int he car tend to distract the driver. Also, young drivers do stupid things, like speed up or take unnecessary risks, to impress their peers.
The reason for #2 is that it has been shown that tired drivers are dangerous. Tired and inexperienced drivers are evenmore dangerous. Also, a lot of the street races that result in injury and death occur at night.
In spain, the drinking age is 16 and the driving age is 18. I think that makes a lot more sense than our drinking age of 21 and driving age of 15.5.
I have gone through 3 teenage drivers and one soon to be a teenage driver, and I can tell you that as good as my kids are (
) their level of maturity at 16 is not very comforting.
And it is not just them, when I was 16 I was a stupid jerk behind the wheel of my big Super Delta 88 Olds.
