Do you support raising the minimum driving age?

[tootsie roll]

Then if it takes time and experience no age limit will be good enough.

I suppose there are pros and cons to raising or lowering the driving age

Being very truthful, there is no way I should have been behind the wheel at 16. I'm lucky I'm still alive. I agree with you that there are pros and cons.

I'll tell you what happened to me when there was a change in the drinking age. I had just turned legal (19) and I was having a great time! Very shortly after, they changed the age to 21. I was literally in the bar at midnight when the change took effect. The cops came and everyone under 21 was booted out. I had to wait over a year and a half after that. But I did live. lol

tootsie roll Reviewed by tootsie roll on 02-05-2006. Do you support raising the minimum driving age? Do you support raising the minimum driving age in your state? A lot of states want to raise the minimum driving age from 16 to 18. Iâ??m 34 and absolutely will vote for this. The number of accidents and fatalities caused by drivers of the ages 16 and 17 are just shocking. Sure I was allowed to drive when I was 16 and when I think back to all the dangerous, stupid things I did in my car at that age it just makes me agree with this more. The combination of attitude and lack of experience at Rating: 5

[Lily420]

Im in no situation to argue, i dare not be a hypocrite for i partake in DUI, oh yes. Sometimes we're all high and driving around, and theres quite a few of us. We drive until we get somewhere like doncun donuts or across the street, dont matter. :smokin:

[cameron123240]

Wow! i can hardly keep up.

Very True actually, Drving is a privelage, but adults die in automobile accidents as well, and i think, as most of you will agree, that high school students and college men and women, are always in such a rush; going to the store, going to school on time, showing up for their jobs on time, blah blah, that when they get on the freeway stuck behind an old granny; (No offence to Grannys, they are the safest drivers anywhere) they slam their foot down, and crash into a tree and die, but certainly this is their fault so yes, i can understand. But then again, adults can do dumb shit like that also. I was going somewhere just the other day, and looked to my left to see some idiot driving alongside me on the freeway reading a book, and not looking at the road for nearly a slow count of 11 seconds. i mean this guy must have been at least 40. :dance:

[tootsie roll]

Im in no situation to argue, i dare not be a hypocrite for i partake in DUI, oh yes. Sometimes we're all high and driving around, and theres quite a few of us. We drive until we get somewhere like doncun donuts or across the street, dont matter. :smokin:

..............or across the street. rotf!

[tootsie roll]

Wow! i can hardly keep up.

Very True actually, Drving is a privelage, but adults die in automobile accidents as well, and i think, as most of you will agree, that high school students and college men and women, are always in such a rush; going to the store, going to school on time, showing up for their jobs on time, blah blah, that when they get on the freeway stuck behind an old granny; (No offence to Grannys, they are the safest drivers anywhere) they slam their foot down, and crash into a tree and die, but certainly this is their fault so yes, i can understand. But then again, adults can do dumb shit like that also. I was going somewhere just the other day, and looked to my left to see some idiot driving alongside me on the freeway reading a book, and not looking at the road for nearly a slow count of 11 seconds. i mean this guy must have been at least 40. :dance:

Yeah, some adults drive like idiots too. A couple of weeks ago we were behind this lady who was all over the place, on and off the brake while she was gazing at herself in the rearview putting on her face paint. She really pissed me off and we were in a no pass zone. :Mad:
(how come the icons don't work for me anymore?)

[BaseRSX]

I will go even one further; it should be 16 and 17 yearold guys not allowed more than girls. Of course they would never do this but come on everyone knows itâ??s the guys that are doing most of the really stupid shit. The insurance companies sure know this!

Like I said when I think back to some of the totally stupid shit I did in my car, full of friends, at 16... Damn!! Like a lot of people have already said, I'm lucky to be alive today! I used to burn down the hill in my neighborhood, itâ??s a 25 mile an hour little residential street in a quiet little suburb. I would try to get to the highest speed possible and then slam on the breaks and come to a stop at the intersection. I think my record was like 77MPH and the locking the breaks up (this was before the days of ABS). And come screaming and sliding to a stop. Laughing my ass off all the way.

That shit was just totally insane!! I have no idea how I was able to do that so many times and not kill myself, someone else, or be arrested!

[bedake]

i think they should raise the minimum driving age from 16 to 18, 90% of 16 year olds are not mature at all, i dont think they should be able to drive, not a year goes by i dont see some stupid ass teenagers getting killed, not like they got anything important to do anyways

[justinsane]

my vote is FOR the age raise, sure it might piss people off..

but look at it from a different point of veiw

id rather have pissed off kids than alot of dead people

[BaseRSX]

DEFINITELY agree with this. 16 is WAY too young to be driving. Only young people with no experience will vote to keep it the same way.

Nice thing about that is they are too young to vote.

I hear there are a lot of parents against raising the driving age but only because they say they are too busy to have to drive them to school! What kind of parents would put their own convinces and schedule ahead of their kids and other people on the roadâ??s safety?!?!

[pabloescobar209]

Do you support raising the minimum driving age in your state? A lot of states want to raise the minimum driving age from 16 to 18. Iâ??m 34 and absolutely will vote for this. The number of accidents and fatalities caused by drivers of the ages 16 and 17 are just shocking. Sure I was allowed to drive when I was 16 and when I think back to all the dangerous, stupid things I did in my car at that age it just makes me agree with this more. The combination of attitude and lack of experience at that age is a very deadly combination.

you could also agrue though that you only did those things because you were an unexperienced driver, not just because you were 16... and the only way to become and experienced driver is to drive. i arue that kids would do the same things at the age of 18 as they will at 16 when presented with a new found toy... would you agree??

I for one will be going out of my way to vote for this in my state. What do you think? And please state your age with your answer.

you could also agrue though that you only did those things because you were an unexperienced driver, not just because you were 16... and the only way to become and experienced driver is to drive. i arue that kids would do the same things at the age of 18 as they will at 16 when presented with a new found toy... would you agree??