A bill to raise the driving age to 18.

I apologize for not giving the definition of driving age although I didn't know that my opponent doesn't not know about the driving age. I gave my statistics in the first round and I said that motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers and 16-year-olds have higher crash rates than drivers of any other age. My opponent doesn't understand that these teenagers actually drive on their own with a driver's license. My opponent's definition of the driving age is when a person can drive with or without restrictions. My opponent should have known that in my first round, I stated that 16-year-olds are three times more likely to die in a motor vehicle crash than the average of all drivers. This doesn't include 16-year-olds driving with adults supervising them. Otherwise, we would expect lots of adults getting killed because of teen driving. The driving age is legally 16 is most countries. I'm arguing that the driving age should be raised to 18. Therefore the minimum age at which a new driver could go out with no restrictions should be raised. In round 3, I have stated the following: "I have never proposed a strict system in which one can only get a license at age 18. By raising the driving age to 18, I meant by learners will still be granted their provisional license from 16 or 17, but will need a year to pass a beefed-up test, which means the minimum age at which a new driver could realistically go out on his or her own will be 18. The people under the age of 18 will have to be supervised by an adult such as a legal guardian or parent." "According to his argument why do we not raise the drinking age to 50 or the driving age even higher past the range of 25 to lower even more accidents." "The reason that the driving age isn't 25 is that driving is necessary to go to college at the age of 18. The age of majority indicates the end of adolescence and people who reach this age are regarded as adults and are held to be responsible for their actions. Therefore 18 is better than 16, because people who are 18 are regarded as adults and have more experience than 16-year-olds with a more developed dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex." Please don't make me repeat this again. I'm just saying that students have to go to college at the age of 18. Why do students want to drive at the age of 16 when they're not going to work or college? "Raising the driving age to 18 should mean that those under 18 can not drive a car." You mean that those under 18 can not drive a car ON HIS OWN. Adults can happily supervise to prevents accidents due to teen driving. "To try after two rounds of debate to change the flow of debate means that the other side has conceded that no good response can be giving to the notion of a driving training period from 16 to 18." You may have mentioned this concept first, but this concept doesn't go against me. You can't win just because you mentioned a concept that your opponent didn't post it in yet. In fact, the GDL goes with my belief that the driving age should be raised to 18, because too many teens were in fatal car crashes and the GDL was supposed to stop it. I thought you knew what is the driving age. I thought that you read the statistics I gave and noticed that it did not mentioned that adults are dying because of teen driving. I think that adults should be supervising teens until they are 18, which means that the driving age would be raised to 18. I'm sure that adults would be a lot more careful with their lives then teenagers. "All of the arguments about brain scans were meant to illustrate a sole point. If the other side is serious about brain development and says that we can determine whether ones region of the brain to control motor function is developed, then I say scrap the age limit altogether and allow everyone who passes a more extensive brain scanning test to drive." I will post argument from the third round again: However, Giedd says that ethical crossroad is too radical to seriously consider today. "We are just at the threshold of this," he says. Do you think every parent is going to agree to have their teenagers take a brain scan to determine whether he or she was neurologically fit to drive? What if the brain scan says that his or her brain isn't developed enough? How will their parents feel about the results? Ignoring the ethical crossroad, if the brain scans were implemented today, there would be no reason to raise the driving age to 18. But we can't because of ethics, and we need to raise the driving age to 18 now to save lives, until the day when brain scans can be implemented. "I would use it as my advantage to learn how to drive at the age of 10-14. I'm sure our society wouldn't like the idea of people ages 10-15 driving on the streets. Anyone can show maturity at any age, but it takes more than 1/2 of the people with large amounts of maturity to lower or keep the driving age." "Does that mean that very intelligent or mature teenagers ages 10-14 can be trusted with adult rights that include binding contract, buying stocks, voting, buying and/or consuming alcoholic beverages, driving motor vehicles on public roads, and marrying without obtaining consent of others or any restrictions?" "Putting gas in the tank is only part of the cost of having an automobile. Rates for teens are higher for a variety of reasons, including a lack of experience on the road. Insurance as a concept is based on the idea of sharing expenses among a group of individuals where the risk is calculable. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers. That factor naturally translates into higher rates for youthful drivers. Therefore if the driving age was raised to 18, auto insurance rates would be lowered for all drivers." These are all my arguments that my opponent ignored. My opponent ignored most of my arguments even if he did not know about the driving age. I didn't not state anything new, although my opponent thinks that the driving age is when teens actually get in the car and drive. Did my opponent know that I'm proposing that adults can supervise the teens until there 18? I'm sure that we don't want many teenagers to die. Teens will have experience of driving if they are always drive when supervised by adults. Therefore, it is not the inexperience that kill teens, it is the immaturity resulting from the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex that causes most deaths. You will notice how most adults are more mature than teenagers. Even if my previous statement was false, I have never seen a teacher immaturity level near reaching the immaturity level of the teenager. So with that said, I ask my opponent to not ignore all my arguments and that he should have known that the driving age means that when drivers can drive on their own with no adult supervising them with no restrictions.