Raising the legal driving age to 21 years.. What are your current attitudes towards this issue?

No!! as finding people to take you for drives will be to

difficult at that age!! and for people living in rural areas

with a lack of public transport will cause to many issues

also consider the number of unlicensed drivers that will

be on the road anyway, besides its best to start young

even though youth's take more risks as 17-21 is a big

gap and that 4 years is a lot of driving experience

that is wasted!! so no more rules and regulations need

to be taken into consideration though like compulsory

driving lessons with a trained instuctor and longer learning

hours and tougher laws for younger drivers!! but learners

need to start at some time and no matter if its 17 to 21

people are going to take risks so it really lays on the driver and other drivers to take safe risks and bring these statistics to a halt!!!

Hope this helped!!

While there is some scientific evidence that the human brain is not fully matured (biologically) in **most** people until around age 21, I think the question is not one of age but rather of maturity. Unfortunately it is hard to test for maturity and so the law goes to age as the only objective test it can.

Your question is what do I think about raising the legal driving age minimum to 21? I don't really think it will help because I see lots of stupid driving by different aged adults. What I do think would help would be a much more extensive driving tests (say 3 hours long) using computerized simulators similar to the way they test commercial airline pilots. The technology is available but it will cost a lot of money to implement and so it probably won't happen. The costs of accidents, property destruction, injuries, and deaths don't count apparently.

This would be an economic hardship for anybody between the ages of 18 and 21. We expect people in this age range to work or go to school or both. People learn to drive well by driving. 21 year-olds might be better behaved than teen-agers, but they aren't going to have any magic driving skills when they first start driving. .They will still be a bit dangerous. I can live with raising it from 16 to 18. 16 and 17 year olds have less need for a car. When you are 18 you are officially an adult. You can vote, move out of your parents house(or be thrown out), be sentenced to death, and be drafted, certainly you should be allowed to drive.

I'm 16- just working on getting my license right now. I don't really agree or disagree with making 21 the legal age to drive

Pros: Less accidents, more mature drivers,

Cons: I live in a town where the bus service is not that great so my only transportation is my friends driving me or my parents. It's not really fair for my mom to have to drive me to work, school, friends, ect... Getting my lisence will give me so much more freedom.

I would be OK if they changed the legal driving age to 18-20 years - 21 seems a little unfair!

I think 16 is a good age to get a license. Although teenagers are annoying and stupid at times...I think they're smart enough to be able to learn how to drive....as long as mum and dad play a large role in it. I suppose it's different for everyone....but it should be up to the parents to decide whether their child is ready to get a license at the age of 16 (and it is...since they have to sign the forms at the DMV). Of course...the more experience you have at doing something....the better you are at it. We send kids away to college at 18, and at least they have 2 years of driving experience under their belts by that time. By the time they're ready to go out and get a job and a life and stuff....they will have had 6 years of experience behind the wheel (assuming the graduate at 22 and get a career right away)....which I think is enough to at least be wary of other drivers and help avoid accidents. Also, since the legal drinking age is 21....they have 5 years of driving experience before they decide whether or not they really are going to get behind the wheel of a car after having a drink. Finally....16 is when you can legally start working...so doesn't it seem natural that you would have a WAY to get to work (mass transit aside)?

This sounds absurd. Most people start driving around 13 or 14. I began when i was 14 and never got into a single accident. I have been working full full-time since I've been 15, with my schedule and no mass transit in the city i grew up in, there was no way that I would have survived without being able to drive legally.

The legal driving age of 15/16 is fine and it should stay that way. I graduated college at 21 and there is no way I could have survived without my car. Places to go, people to meet, things to do.

Who would suggest such a thing, and why????

Raising the legal driving age to 21 years is not practical here in the USA. Most people live large distances from work, school, and other centers of activity. By denying those under 21 the ability to drive you would be effectively be denying their rights to be participants in society unless you provided a means for under 21 year old persons to travel cheaply, and on demand.

I'm 32.

I think there are good intentions behind this but I think 21 is definitely way too high, the number of kids driving without lisences will probably increase and they will be driving dangerously because of it. I live in south australia where you can get your learners license when you are 16 and be able to drive by yourself when you are 16 and a half, I think this is the youngest in Australia and should maybe be about 17 instead but I think 21 is definitely too old, if you can be considered an adult at 18 and make your own decisions surely you should be able to drive a car.

and im 18.

see there are pros and cons about the new legal age.

the pros of the change is that it is said that those most prone to accidents are 17-25 year old males. there is some evidence of this on the road as some young divers of about 18, 19 go speeding down the roads giving no consideration to other road users and abuse the rights they have been given . so raising the age for driving could eliminate some of the dangerous driving.

The cons of raising the legal age is of course it affects the people who actually would use the rights given with proper use or would need to use a car for job purposes and travelling to /from college/university.

in conclusion i think they shouldn't change the legal age just as it would affect drivers using the car responsibly but in order to eliminate reckless driving they should have more police patrolling to stop reckless drivers and take away their right from driving.

I am the mother of 11 children and as much as it terrifies me to let anyone of my children drive .At this point and time I think the driving age is o.k . Especially when you can enter the military on your own at 18 yrs. of age and even be signed up by a parent at 17.If you can do this and possibly go to war then you are definitely old enough to drive.