Driving age - Your Views

[Emjin]

Perhaps to 18, a year is alot.

And I think the US age limit should go up, I think 16 is a little too young and I think there's alot more accidents involving young adults?

[RandomManJay]

I think that the driving age of 17 is fair because before I turned 17, I never though I would be able to learn how to drive, much less pass my test. If does go up to 18, it is the legal classification of adulthood, and it would centre the age limits along side drinking so I would be fine with that. I don't think that 21is good though because many university students require transportation to get from place to place, which is hard when buses are late or not to the right schedule for everyone. Athough I do see why the government is trying to increase the age for safety and maturity isses, the vast mojority of young, new drivers don't actually drive dangerously, so I think there should be a system where if you are caught endangering someones life through driving before the age of 21 without justifiable cause, your license should be revoked and you should not be allowed to take your test or learn to driving again until you turn 21.

[Janeisntpleased]

i think changing the age to 18 won't really have that much of effect on accidents and whatnot.

the only thing i agree on is have a 0 alcohol policy on new drivers.

[Purple]

In the USA the driving age is 16. I think it should be 17, because that would generally mean all high school seniors could drive and I simply think you should be a bit older. 21 is wayyy too high!

[VPSwow]

I think 17 is good because we need some responsibilities at that age.

[Scarcely]

I'm glad we'll be able to drive at 17...
IMO we shouldn't all suffer due to some boy racers.
I'm looking forward to driving my own car, when I want and where I want listening to what I want as loud as I want.

[Icarus]

NO WAI of course it is not fair, it is completely the opposite. In america in most places you can drive at 16, and you can drive extremely powerful cars. Here we can drive at 17 (soon to be 18 no doubt Relative to if they decide to change it) and you always see us, even most rich people with crappy cars, safer cars than those that most american teens drive.

And in contrast to other laws like smoking drinking etc, it is just an excessive abuse of power and control over our youth!

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I know this was one of the first posts but in quite alot of america the driving age is actually 21. Same as drinking age.

[GommeInc]

Thinking over it, if it went any higher 17 year olds would be destroying public property, rather than their own cars anyway. This is of course following the stereotype the government has put down that all 17 year olds love crashing cars and causing accidents :rolleyes:

[alexxxxx]

I know this was one of the first posts but in quite alot of america the driving age is actually 21. Same as drinking age.

Is there some part of america that isn't listed here?

http://www.2pass.co.uk/ages2.htm

[tdi]

I don't mind it going up to 18 yet 21 is too far.
You can drive a 49cc (50cc) motorcycle at the age of 16 which i think is fair so its not too bad driving around on a bike for an extra year. But anyhow, its not going to affect me so im not too worried.
Maybe they should change the law so for the first year of driving you can only drive up to a 1.1 leter (1100cc) so it wont be so dangerous but most people do anyway as its hell trying to get insurance for a 1.2+.
So yeh, i think its ok if it changes to 18 but 21 is too far like i said, i mean what would happen about riding a bike at the age of 16, they would have to change it to 18 or somthing. By changing that law so many other laws will have too change and now they have relised it and now the law isn't changing.

My mate has a 1.1, it's so slow. you've got to wait for him to catch up. :\