look forward to receiving their licenses from the time they turn thirteen. Most parents agree with the decision to rise the age of receiving driver’s licenses because they can save a lot of money for a couple of years. I agree with the settlement to add on a couple of years of driving practice so that teenagers will be more mature‚ have more experience‚ and the rate of accidents will decrease. First of all‚ being mature is very important when driving. Young drivers tend to have the audacity to race
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related to age. Inevitability‚ senior citizens should be required to retake a drivers test often. When driver rates are calculated‚ the highest rates are found to be among both the youngest and the oldest drivers. Because of these statistics‚ J.O.L laws‚ or Junior Operating Laws‚ have been created to suspend licenses of young drivers who make any sort of mistakes while driving. These laws can take away a drivers license for 3-6 months if they: speed‚ get into an accident‚ receive a traffic violation
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minimum of nine months‚ and not being able to get their licenses until they’re at least sixteen and three months. Raising the driving age from sixteen to eighteen is absolutely preposterous and makes no sense. Young teens need to be able to drive themselves to work‚ school‚ and numerous other functions when their parents are unavailable. New drivers and traffic incidents are inevitable; they will happen no matter the age or experience of the driver. College kids are just as much at risk as younger
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forward to their 16th birthday because it signified the day that they could finally get a license and hit the road. Since driving is a privilege many parents engrave that in their children’s minds that it can be revoked at any time. Many parents feel relieved as they are able to send their sons and daughters out without having to take them. With this new privilege comes grave
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Mrs. Karen M. Lampert April‚ 22‚ 2013 English 1C: Critical thinking and writing. Essay # 4. Truth: Women are better drivers. Women have the reputation of being worse drivers than men. Some say that women’s driving is linked to their hormones‚ or they look too much in the mirror‚ or that they put make up while driving. Others believe that women are bad drivers because they text at the same time as driving‚ or they think too much about everything and cannot focus on driving‚ or simply because
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Module 2 notes When you are driving‚ most information comes to you through eyes. Gathering information with your eyes is called visual perception – the ability to notice many things at once. You must have 20/40 vision or better in each eye and both eyes If it is found that you have 20/200 (or poorer) vision in one eye‚ you must have 20/40 or better vision in the other eye with or without corrective lenses If it is found that you have 20/70 (or better) vision in either eye separately‚ or in
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getting your license; they have primarily done it to keep you as a new driver safe and knowledgeable about the road and safety on it. A quote by a road safety minister saying “Young New Zealanders have 60% higher fatality rate than Australia‚ all because the age difference”. But its not all just about age‚ it is also about the fact teen agers are open to newer faster cars‚ that have not been as accessible as before. The amount of accidents with teenage drivers is more than triple that of drivers who are
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experienced drivers‚ but all the facts point in the different direction. Young people between 15 and 24 years old represent 14% of the United States population but the male account for 30% of the vehicle injuries and 28% among the females. About 4.500 teens between 16 to 19 years old died in 2008 died of injuries in crashes. The same year about 400.000 teenagers drivers and passengers were involved in a car injury‚ and had to go to the hospital. It is also said by Anne McCartt‚ that “A new driver at any
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keep the streets free of these drivers. The Demerit Point System is a system where if you do not obey the rules of the road‚ you will be given points on your driving record. These points are not something you want on your driving record. The points tell authorities that you have violated the rules of the road and the will not think twice about issuing a ticket if they have to. As a new driver‚ if you violate any rules and accumulate nine demerit points your license will be suspended for 30 days
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Women Drivers! Problem - Solution Essay Apsara Engel‚ Social Studies 8a Women drivers have often been the butt of many jokes‚ from Meet the Jetsons to Alan Partridge and ordinary one-liners. Stereotypes are a simple generalisation of a group of people‚ often from a lack of understanding or exposure from that group. Unfortunately‚ stereotypes are still a large part of our daily lives - especially the women are bad drivers one. In the 1950s‚ a popular poster was created about a woman in a driving
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