Driving Age - Raise to 21

(Just some pretext, Please do read all of my words, I know it's alot but you seem to have missed alot of what I wrote. ) Ok so, You're going off of presuppositions that maturity is the leading reason why there are bad and good drivers. Your argument that you wrote is one example of something that could happen. And you seemed to not comment on your 6. 3 billion deaths a year statement. And keep this in mind, In America the drinking age is 21. So no teenager is drinking and driving unless they're doing it illegally. In that case, It's null invalid for you to say they'll go out and drink because they're breaking laws already and then taking a substance that makes them even worse at driving. So they're broken multiple laws and are under the influence. I can tell you right now that there are more crashes by people over 21 for drunk driving than teenagers. Arguing that them drinking illegally and driving under the influence illegally makes your argument about alcohol, Not a 16-year-old being reckless. But a teen that is reckless while drunk which anyone no matter what age would be reckless while drunk. I imagine you don't know too much about American laws. Let me reiterate Everywhere is not like the UK, The store is always down the road from you. A car is much less money if you live not in a place like the UK which is about 75% of America. Imagine this, Your favorite grocery store and the closest one is 5 miles away. Now you don't own a car so what do you do, You walk 2 miles to the closest bus stop. Which is if you live in a rich area. Which many many people don't have a bus or train system at all in many places in America. What do you do, You walk. Or you can take a bike, That's good. But how are you going to get back with all the groceries? You can't make multiple trips because by the end of it you'd be paying well over 10 dollars just to go back and forth twice. And hold some bags for 2 miles while you're riding your bike back through long roads with all of your cold items spoiling on the way back. Do you see where I'm going with this, It's just not practical to not have a car if you're not living in a highly dense populated area. It's not worth the time, The effort, And most definitely the money, With the Average American driving to work, And driving back home. And most picking up their kids, That's 4 trips. You can't tell me that paying 10 dollars every day just to get a bus and take all that extra time getting to a bus stop, Then waiting, Then picking up what you need 4 times and then going back home is efficient. It just isn't' that's why not only do you need a lower age to a driver like 16 years old as it is right now. But it's efficient money wise as well. The UK driving laws have nothing to do with making our laws in America different than they are now. My main argument is this: It is more cost effective in most of America, To have a car. There are no bus stops as easy to get to as in the UK. You will spend much more time and money getting to the bus stops outside of big cities than if you owned a car. That's why a majority of Americans own cars, We need them as we will travel more than 15 miles a day easily if you're outside of big cities. In big cities, They're great. Busses as far as the eye can see and trains and ferries. It's very easy there. But outside, Where the rest of the population (80% of 360 million) need to have cars, And parents can't take care of their kids all the time. It's important that the 16 year old can get to his job if he needs alone.