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raze it or lower it USA 16 years of age

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Originally posted by swimmerboy032891
raze it or lower it USA 16 years of age
Raze it.

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Originally posted by KneverKnight
Raze it.
no lower I am 14

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Originally posted by swimmerboy032891
no lower I am 14
Yea, but you haven't learned to spell. For your punishment it should be raised to 18.

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Originally posted by swimmerboy032891
no lower I am 14
want to see the crash rate go up?

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Originally posted by zeeblebot
want to see the crash rate go up?
He doesn't care--all teenagers care about is how the world is unfair because they are not alowed to do things. This is not an attitude worthy of rewarding; raise it to 18 except when the kid needs to drive for work. (I'm feeling rather surly today. Has anyone else noticed this?)

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I think it should be raised or lowered depending on the individual. Responsible kids with good grades who are fairly good at driving, it gets lowered. Irresponsible kids with low averages who need some more practice, wait a while more. Perhaps their drivers-ed teacher could be the judge of this?

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Originally posted by Remora91
I think it should be raised or lowered depending on the individual. Responsible kids with good grades who are fairly good at driving, it gets lowered. Irresponsible kids with low averages who need some more practice, wait a while more. Perhaps their drivers-ed teacher could be the judge of this?
No, that won't work. There are too many private driver's education companies that wouldn't want it known that they keep the kids of paying parents from getting their licences. The only way around it would be to run the whole show from the government, and that opens the door to corruption and incompetence.

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Originally posted by thesonofsaul
No, that won't work. There are too many private driver's education companies that wouldn't want it known that they keep the kids of paying parents from getting their licences. The only way around it would be to run the whole show from the government, and that opens the door to corruption and incompetence.

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I meant the ones at schools. But whatever. 🙂

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Originally posted by swimmerboy032891
raze it or lower it USA 16 years of age
Get rid of minimum age so I can send my 10 year old for smokes and beer.

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16 is a good compromise between the ambitions of youth and the needs of society. The age is not set by the federal government, it is set by the states. Certain farm states in the midwest had a driving age of 15 when I was young. Is it no longer this way. My state has strict restrictions upon teenage drivers after the age of 16. You must either take drivers ed, or wait until 18; then, there are further restrictions about driving late at night and with passengers. The laws are complicated, but if the kids cannot understand them, they should stay off the road.

Minimum wage at 20 hours per week is close to the cost of insuring young drivers because putting them behind the wheel of car is not significantly different than handling a drug addict a gun--in terms of the danger to others, that is.

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Originally posted by Canadaguy
Get rid of minimum age so I can send my 10 year old for smokes and beer.
How do you plan on him "buying" these things? I since some splinter cell action.......................😉

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