Driving Age - Raise to 21

Ok, So I'm going to assume you accidentally wrote 6. 3 billion fatalities. The earth would be desolate after just 2 years. There was 34, 439 fatal motor vehicle crashes in the United States in 2016 in which 37, 461 people died in. There are 325. 7 million people in the USA. (http://www. Iihs. Org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalityfacts/state-by-state-overview) For every 9, 457. 3 people, 1 person dies from a car accident. There were 1, 792 deaths in the UK from motor vehicle crashes, With a population of 65. 6 million. (https://assets. Publishing. Service. Gov. Uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/648081/rrcgb2016-01. Pdf) For every 36, 607 people, 1 person dies from a car accident. The majority of the traffic deaths come from adults 15-44 years old. A big reason for this is that there are more 20-60-year-olds on the earth due to life expectancy. (http://asirt. Org/Initiatives/Informing-Road-Users/Road-Safety-Facts/Road-Crash-Statistics) Now that we know you're more likely to die in the USA than in England in a car accident. Let's take a few things into perspective. The USA is 3. 797 million mi", Which means there are different areas that do not allow for the medical care to be done as fast. Infrastructure is a huge issue in the statistics that will be shown. In the United States, Commonly the areas where there are more road deaths are places that are expansive and do not have as many roads or hospitals nearby. The top 3 being Alabama, South Carolina, And Oklahoma. Knowing these 3 states are basically fly over states and do not receive much funding and they also happen to be the places where housing is most cheap. Low education, Low infrastructure, And low income make the state more likely that you will die if you get into a car accident because there just will not be as many hospitals around as well as not having as many trained professionals around. The UK is 93, 628 mi" which you can probably tell in it's population and it's land. That it is much smaller than the United States, It has been around much longer as well so the small area of land that it has has been worked on tirelessly and you almost have a city almost any direction you go. May it just be a regular town, There is a much higher population density than most of our states with not as much density and not as much medical care available, As well as having roads that are wide expansions that allow you to even go up to 80 miles per hour without getting a ticket. While in the UK I know the highway systems don't allow for as fast and also have much more speed cameras. Whereas if you see in cities like NewYork you will see much much fewer accidents as you can not go as fast and there is much more security with police and cameras. Keep these things in mind as it isn't just an age / test issue. The issue with travel is another thing, In places like the UK, A bus pass is perfect, A small island that doesn't require a car because your store is right down the street and the school is just a few miles away so the bus would be perfect. However. In America, It is again, Different. Yes in the cities, Public transportation is perfectly fine. I use it sometimes, I currently am in Mass and I live in the heart of it in Boston. Roads that were built by the early settlers are still used, They used the ideas from the UK to build their roads. But expansion west was just too easy to not do. What seemed endless by Luis and Clark showed so many resources that it was just perfect to have long roads that shot straight one direction so that you could get from point A to point B. Commonly in the USA, Many people who don't live in the cities, Have troubles getting everywhere. To the point of where they need to walk a mile or two just to get to a bus stop that will drive them to where they need to go. It's almost unheard of to use a train in Florida. Just because the layout of the land is so different. So yes, You could spend all this extra money on transportation in the USA but it just won't be as convenient or less time-consuming as having your own car. Where I had lived it was normal to have to travel 30 minutes just to get to work even when there was no traffic at all. It's commonplace to buy a house near a school or near your place of work just because of the distances that Americans face. Sometimes it takes so long that the parents need to put their kids on a bus system that is designed to go to a few checkpoints that each kid has to walk to just to get to school effectively while the parents work on getting themselves to work. It becomes a lot easier on a parent and the student at such a young age as 16 to just let the kid have his own car because it's too time-consuming to drive him to his job and then drive to yours and drop him off because by then you'd have been driving for an hour. Many many people don't pass their first times on a driving test. As well as you are required to take a driving test in the United States where ever you go no matter what age you are. Maturity matters as much as you've trained. Think of it like this. Imagine you're about to fight someone, You'd rather fight the 25-year-old who got no fighting experience than the 18-year-old that's been training in Krav Maga for a year. Or say, Would you rather a 25-year-old who's not gone through a university vs an 18-year-old who finished his university already because he went through the extra effort to finish it faster than the rest. Just like training that year before you drive. A year of training makes a world of difference no matter your age. My Girlfriend whos 5 months older than me is dramatically worse at driving than I am. Even at the time I only had about 2 years under my belt and she had none. She still was way worse. The point of what I'm trying to say is, Age does not matter if someone has been trained to do something vs some who has not who may be older. You can teach a kid 12-year-old cursive writing and he would do better than a 21-year-old who has never done it.