Yes. I don't want no tiny bopper on the same road as me. Rush hour traffic is bad enough as it is.

I want to delay buying my daughters a car and I also want to keep my daughters out of the back seat of some 16 year old boy's car as long as possible.

i think the driving age should be raised because there is many irresponsible drivers at a young and i find that as young adults come into grown adults they become more aware of there environment and what is right from wrong.

Ya, because then I can have an excuse for why I never got my license at 16 other than "I failed the written test." (;

I think it should because most teenagers are immature and they don't deserve to be on the road where innocent, mature adults are.

I'm voting for drinking age at 16 to get some practice, followed by driving at 18. Maybe allow scooters at 16 - a lot of countries are set up that way.

As shown in this graph, experience has more of an effect on accidents than does age. There is still a positive trend that implies that younger drivers are more susceptible to accidents (this could also be due to the fact that younger drivers have less experience), but the rate of accidents only slightly decreases with age whereas it drastically decreases with experience (at least at first) and then levels out.

I think the focus of an amendment to the current laws should be on the required supervised drive time before one can test for/receive a license regardless of age.

Another quick fact from the site, "research shows that accident liability is reduced by nearly half after two years driving experience."

No. 18 year olds have many more places to drive to, what with being adults, moving out, going to college, etc. 16 year olds are still young and still are required to go to high school, the majority stay local to their parents and school. Receiving your license at 16 gives you more time to drive and gain experience on the road in a safer environment. When you're 18, you won't have as much time to learn the basic lessons only experience can give you about driving.

16 is the experience you get and learn instead of waiting and getting late to school and jobs.

isn't it the point of the driving test to make sure that you're good enough to be on the roads? i don't think it makes it any safer if you're two years older.

Because it should be their parents disisson

I say no because I feel certain it wouldn't make a difference. 16 is a decent age to start driving, especially when alcohol is still prohibited for another 5 years, and it leaves 5 years for them to learn to drive safely, with ease. We all know when we first start driving it feels really freaky and we pretty much suck at it. But after at least 6 months of driving on your own, it starts to feel natural and we do better. Granted, some people don't take it seriously and are doing really stupid stuff while driving (like drinking, or applying make up, or talking on their phone). But if we postponed it to 18, that means having, well, 18 year olds that drive like crap all over the place. And at 18, they're more likely to do stupider stuff because they're older and will have better access, compared to a 16 yr old still living with their parents who are making their rules still. There's more control letting a 16 year old drive, than an 18 year old. It'd be nice if all 18 year olds were mature, but really, I think the majority are dumber than most 16 year olds.

The driving age shouldn't be increased, but the requirements and tests should definately be more difficult. By difficult I mean that the process should require more time between the permit and license, in Maryland it takes about 1 1/2-2 years atleast to get your license, especially if you are underage. A graduated system would definately be an improvement to the majority of the systems now.

If you want to make the roads safer... add a minimum years to Drivers Ed

I think this would not be so much of a hard hit in NJ. We get our licenses at 17 anyway. What's another year? :) But driving is not automatically learned with age, it is a skill that is honed through practice. We all had to drive a car for the first time at some point.

Well I'd be fucked if i didn't have my licence. My parents left home as soon as i turned 17 :)

I'm going to say no, because frankly, what difference will it make? A lot of people here are noting that people will be 'more mature' at eighteen. It's two years difference. At fifteen (well, almost), I know some really mature sixteen year olds and really immature eighteen year olds. I was driven to school many times last year by my friend's neighbour (who was seventeen), who was perfectly responsible.

I also notice a lot of people noting that many teens die in crashes every year. If you raise it to eighteen, then won't more eighteen year olds die? It's all about experience, not age. People need to realize that physical size or age don't necessarily change your maturity.

At almost fifteen, I've been told many times that I'm extremely mature for my age. But then there's those kids who act out and seem extremely immature at eighteen, sometimes even older.

So really, what difference does age make? It's about maturity, which isn't measured in age, but in...well, maturity. And driving is about EXPERIENCE, not age.

No, because there are teens who are mature and know how to handle responsibility. Therefore we shouldn't ruin it for the ones who have waited for the day they get their license. On the other hand, the irresponsible teens should take 3 courses of driver's training and make them understand how important it is to take precaution when driving. We shouldn't raise the driving age but make the requirements stricter.