The Tragedy of Teenage Driving
This is original advocacy. The point was to propose a bill to be put into action. Telling you any more would spoil the essay, so I’ll stop right here.
Of course, if I get everyone to say, “16 year olds should not drive cars” none of the 16 year olds would care. No matter what we say, nobody will care until it is a law that comes with a fine if you break it, because without consequences, the teens will do anything they want. It has become necessary to pass the following 2 laws, because if we don’t, we will lose more lives every day- I mean, 13 minutes. The first law is the most obvious- it would be to change the age in which you may legally operate a motor vehicle to 18. In this way, like I said earlier, we can reduce the number of teen-inflicted fatal crashes. Not only are we saving the lives of teens, we are saving the lives of other people in which the teens might kill over a crash. The second law would be to reduce the max speed limit of any road to 50 miles per hour. This way, new drivers can keep up with the traffic and prevent accidents. If we pass these two laws, we would save countless lives. I mean, look at those countless teenagers who died each year. Wouldn’t they be in favor of these two laws? So ladies and gentleman, if we work hard enough, we can put these two laws in action. As a result, those 6,000 boys and girls would not have died in vain. So come on! Are we going to save lives or not?
In conclusion, 16 year olds are not mature enough to handle vehicles that can cause serious damage to people and property. Instead, the driving age should be moved up to 18 years of age. Still, there will be accidents, so to lessen the accidents even more, the speed limit of each road should be set to 50 miles per hour. You know, if the laws I proposed get passed, maybe we’ll see the day where no one will be harmed by some else in a car crash. Maybe in, I don’t know, the year 2038, the amount of fatal crashes will be 0. Then again, it’s just a dream. But dreams are things too you know. Without dreams, inventions, companies, even civilization itself would have not been possible. My dream is for someday, no more people get killed in a car crash. And as long as I live, I’ll keep dreaming. Thank you.
–Hansen Shi
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Post CommentJerry
On July 31, 2008 at 12:44 am
whats up hansen read the 3 of mine i read yours already
Hansen
On August 7, 2008 at 12:34 pm
WTF?!?! I only have 3 cents now.
Let life live!
On May 21, 2009 at 5:37 am
So I am a L driver, so you know.
There are way to many kids that just are not mature to drive, I agree with you there.
But (yes hear comes the but) a lot are, and to stick us all in one group isn’t right.
First, have you, parents, ever thought that your driving is an example? you, do not know how many times my dad has said” well you should not do that but as long as, you don’t do it on the test it’s all right ”No it is NOT all right, what kind of example is that? when your parents have bad habits you have a much higher chance of having the same habits. It’s has been hard to fight off habits,
to not do the rolling stops, but I have succeeded and you know what? other people have told me that they feel a lot safer with me behind the wheel.
Second how many copilots and L drivers have read the: before you start >in the driving handbook?
do you even know what I’m talking about?
If teens/copilots followed these examples maybe then there would be less teens dead. example:
being a copilot : do I have the time? am I a safe skilled driver? do I have a good relationship with the new driver? am I an effective communicator? do I have the patience for this job?
Choosing a copilot :is this person ready to commit the time needed,is this person a skilled confident driver? will this person be a good example of driving? is this person a good teacher?does this person have the patience required to guide you effectively?
My point is,if any of these don’t apply than how can you wonder that teens suck at driving and die?
One of my copilots doesn’t apply to any of those examples and the other only one.
We haven’t gone over the book step by step and they haven’t read it at all.
It won’t change a thing by making the age 18 if you don’t have a copilot that has time to practice driving with you. (practice makes perfect). Some teens like my brother are so skilled at driving that at age 16 he was able to backup a loaded semi trucks around a tight yard easy, is it fair to him to have to wait two more years? Also their are a lot of teens that are to far away from town to ride bikes or take a bus. such as anyone living on a prairie
I think that learning from none family is best but a lot of parents/teens can’t afford 800/1200 dollars to learn how to drive.
I have heard too many people that say they do not want to teach their teenager to drive because they know they lack the patience, but when they found out how much it will cost, they end up teaching their teenagers anyway.
Think about it? Has driving changed a lot in the last 30 years?
than why do driving instructors cost so much more now ?
If you want to lower the death rate of teens then have places/programs were L’s can learn to drive from professionals without paying so much.