Posted on 05/19/2006 8:32:12 PM PDT by devane617
And then there all the geezers driving. But they will keep their licenses, because they vote.
Really? Was that in the 1920s or something? It does make sense.
I was in a similar situation. I drove for 2 years without a license because of some technical difficulty with the state regarding who my legal guardian(s) were lol. For money, I HAD to work, which meant I had to drive. I had no choice. When I was 18 I finally got a license because I was an 'adult'.
My father used to work for the DMV, California. He pulled an old guys license and refused to give it back. The State received a very nast letter from the former drivers son. I'm not sure if my father really should have done what he did, but his supervisor was not very happy with him, and later on, my dad lost his license as well.
I grew up in the country, where most boys were driving on the road by 14. Hell, one owned a Z28 by that time (drove it like a grandma).
If you've got an inexperienced driver behind the wheel then you've got a dangerous situation. Raising that age to 18 won't change that equation.
Things are so different today...my father started teaching me to drive when I was 10, sitting me in his lap and letting me steer. The big malls were closed on Sundays when I was a kid and he would let me drive in the empty parking lot. Later, he would take me to the empty parking lot in winter and I had to practice driving in snow.
I was driving the family tractor on the highway when I was 14, but that was legal for farm kids back then. But my parents didn't allow me to get a drivers license until I was 17. I concur that 16 is too young, but I also think that kids today have an order of magnitude more distractions than when I was a kid. Plus I've seen studies that suggest kids today feel more invulnerable because of air bags and anti-skid brakes, etc, and so take more chances.
Draft them into the Army and send them to Iraq. They'll be safer there. (And more useful when they get out) :-)
The thinking part of a human brain does not mature until 18 for the majority of us. Kids should NOT get their liscense until 18.
Amen Amen Amen! I'm with you!
When I was a young lad, there were all these old men driving with hats, at 35 miles per hour, gripping the wheel for dear life, on all those two lane highways, that are now largely gone. This was back around 1960. My dad called them fudds, as he zipped past them, in the other lane, and making caustic comments when passing was not possible. I assumed they learned to drive later in life.
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Here in Texas a Drivers Test in the car is not required. Just pass an eye test and a smal written test, and away you go.
Mom called them "hats." As in, "Oh no, we're behind a hat." They're still alive and well, and you can still observe them in their natural habitat here in Indiana.
I think if they would just say 16/17 year old's...could only be out driving between 0600 and 2000...alot of the stupid accidents would end. But no state has the guts to do that. So I'm guessing raising the age to 17 is the only method they could enact without serious complaints.
My grandfather got a ticket for driving 20 miles per hour in Washington DC. The speed limit was 15 miles per hour or something. That was around 1910 or so. At least that is the tale my grandmother used to tell me. Driving too much faster than horses could go, I guess was dangerous.
Find you an IH Scout, and you will have a REAL 4x4.
They died out a long time ago, in the West.
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