What’s the difference between a fifteen-year-old and a sixteen-year-old? Freedom. At the age of fifteen, you’re given the training wheels needed to reach freedom; also known as your permit. Nothing is as cool to a fifteen-year-old as driving your mom and dad around for the first couple of months. The roles have finally been reversed. Mark Wahlberg says it best in the Other Guys, “I’m a peacock and you gotta let me fly.” Getting your permit is the first step to reaching the ultimate goal: getting your license. At the age of sixteen, your training wheels are taken off and your journey to independence has started. To some, this might sound easy. From personal experience, I can say it’s not. You have to endure hours of studying, practicing, and even tests. In the end, the hard work is worth it. You are achieving the goal that every kid looks forward to. Driving isn 't a task that anyone can just start doing. Driving a 3 ton vehicle that can take someone from point A to point B in no time isn’t easy. The first step into becoming a driver, like the first step when building something, is reading the manual. The magazine sized directional discusses common traffic laws, how to park a car up or downhill, and how driving a car works in general. I remember when I was first starting to research about getting my license, I was extremely overwhelmed with the amount of reading I was going to have to do. However rather than getting scared and backing down, I remained dedicated and faced
Age is one of the many things that separates us into different categories, children, teenagers, and adults. As your age increases so does the level of freedom and responsibility. In most of the United States you get to enjoy certain privileges at various ages. Such as drinking alcohol, smoking, and the topic of today, driving. In most cases you may start learning how to drive at 15 and get your official license at 16. This raises concerns in some people’s eyes. They feel as if 16 is far too young for the responsibility of driving and argue that the privilege should be acquired at once 18, the legal age of being an adult in most states.However, I believe that 16 is a perfectly fine age to becoming a driver. I see many benefits from it as it
When driving at the age of sixteen, teenagers can have more freedom to do the things they want. When I turned sixteen and received my license, I could finally do the things a teenager could only dream of. I was finally able to start off my dating life by going on long dates without having to worry about my parents or other guardians. I can go on relaxing strolls through the neighborhood whenever I want to just clear my mind. I
Driving has become an integral part of today's society.The ability to commute long distances and perform daily tasks quickly (such as picking up food at the grocery store) is evidence of our advancement in technology.Naturally earning the ability to drive is a cornerstone in anyone's life,"sixteen" being an age well remembered for this new-found knowledge. This changed however when Oregon passed a law limiting these privileges called "graduated licensing" - and although its intentions are well meaning graduated licensing's result is far from perfect.
Turning sixteen is a major turning point in a teenager’s life, you’re finally at the age where you are given much more responsibility and freedom than before. And the biggest responsibility is being able to get your license and drive. And being given the keys to a car means a teenager can move on from depending on their parents. That’s why raising the driving age from sixteen will cause much more harm than good to many teen’s lives. The legal driving age should not be raised, despite the many efforts by the government. There is no need to raise it, the positive effects will not come close to the negatives that come’s along with it, additionally teens need to get prepared for the real world, need to drive to get around, and most of the time car crashes are not even their fault. If push comes to shove their needs to be better driver education and standards to help teens to be more prepared to drive and improving graduating driver licensing. Graduating driver licensing(GDL) or restrictive licensing is a way that states regulate what a teen can do when they first get their license to limit the amount of crashes they get into and to keep them safe. Although the age differs from state to state the same general restrictions still apply. Which include determining whether a new driver can drive with passengers, and even having a curfew set for driving times. In Florida sixteen-year old cannot drive between 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Keeping them off the streets at night. They however cannot
If you want a job or want to go anywhere, you’re going to need a driver’s license. Whether it is school, work, shopping, or just hanging out with friends, you will need a driver’s license. Or maybe even the necessary places like, the grocery, or work. Most states allow people to receive a license at the age of sixteen. The driving test teens have to take to receive their license is different in every state. Some states are harder on their drivers than other states are. Teen drivers have a history of being unsafe drivers, but precautions have been made to limit wrecks that involve them.
There are many responsibilities that come with learning to drive that help teens become responsible adults. Being able to get a drivers permit at age 15 allows parents to teach kids the responsibilities that come with a licesence and gives them expirence with a mentor. After a year of guided practice most teens are more comfortable with the car and are consious of the people around them. The article written by James Mead, Driving Age Should Stay at 16, states " Driving is a skill that has to be learned. It's not a textbook
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The current driving age of sixteen is implemented in almost every state in the United States. Most states have become accustomed to the current driving age, but recently there are certain states that believe that the legal driving age should be raised due to various reasons. The main argument for most states is that sixteen-year old’s are not mature enough and lack the preparation to handle the responsibility to drive safely. Teenagers under the age of eighteen should be required to wait longer to get their license and should be more prepared before getting their license.
If a teenager got his or her permit at 14 or 15 and got their license at 17 or 18, he or she would have a longer time period for preparation. The average person’s decision making skills are not fully developed until they are 17 years old. Most 16 year olds do not have fully developed decision making skills. ("Should We Raise the Legal Driving Age?") Driving as an older teenager could potentially stop obesity, or at least reduce the amount of obese teenagers. There are very many teenagers that spend an excessive amount of time on their cellphones every day. With age comes maturity, which means that as the teen becomes older he or she will not be on his or her phone as much. Decision making skills will be fully developed by age 18 and will help the student to know not to speed and to drive safely. Teenagers would also have more time to work on their school work or help around the house if they could drive on their own. They could do their own errands as the parents took care of their own needs.("Pros and Cons of Raising the Driving Age to
I have always wonted to get my license,a 16 year can leave the house, have fun with friends,and go shopping. There is also cost,damage,and freedoms.All 16 year old's thank about is the freedoms never the cost or damage.
There is one thing all high schoolers look forward to: driving. And though we’ve all completed the sixty hours practice time and driver's education, it seems a significant amount of caution is forgotten while we walk key in hand to drive on our own for the first time. I realized this in 2016 when an accident involving three students in my school ended tragically. The school year was coming to an end and I had just started working my first job as a lifeguard. As the youngest and newest guard all I did was look up to the older more experienced guards. Especially Jacob, who somehow made hours of “professional people watching” as we often joked, interesting. Due to the thunderous rumble of his beloved pickup truck, we always knew when he was on
Driving is an important life skill that you should develop as early as possible. You won’t have to go through the trouble of taking the public transport anymore. It is an achievement that you can drive yourself to other places. Knowing how to become a driver takes hard work. If you want to pass your driver’s license exam, you should sign up for classes in your local driving school.
They want to get away from their parents, they want to get a job, go place with their friends. Most of the things teens want to do includes having some sort of transportation to go there and they want their parents to drive them there. What parent wants to drive their teen and maybe other teens everywhere all the time? None do, so they either make them walk, bike, take the bus or get their license. 16 year olds don’t have much to do, they are still in high school, living with their parents, and they have the time to learn how to drive without being overloaded with things to do. Being able to drive at 16, they are getting the indepence they need for the
Learning how to drive can be a very scary experience. Nothing can be more exciting than driving for the first time. People have more freedom when they start driving. You are even able to help out others who don’t have a car.
If you had told me when I turned sixteen that I couldn’t get my license until I turned eighteen, I would have thrown a fit. Now that I am older, I realize that I had no business driving an automobile at 16 years old. I was the typical teenage driver. The cool one, who had the “Detroit