Monday morning quarterbacking TV news anchors report just about every weekend how some sixteen year old driver manages to kill a few peer passengers by driving off the road at high speed, coming to an abrupt stop against some deadly immovable object, perhaps a deceptively harmless tree, lurking in waiting way out in middle of some otherwise empty field. Or failing that a Grief Counselor. The cars shown should be displayed crumpled or upside down with a mix of anti-freeze with stunt driver blood running into the gutters. Prohibit teenagers from wearing seat belts which give them a false sense of security. Cancel all teenage automobile collision insurance coverage so that expensive crashes are the financial responsibility of the driver and family alone, not spread among more mature and cautious drivers.
Insurance can be a paid in full in advance subsidy for idiocy.
Close, plow up and plant trees in all high school parking lots. Let everyone, teachers et al, ride the mass transit school busses we have been supporting, filling the half empty seats. Maybe install a few bike racks. Develop anti-hormone drugs for teens which will help sublimate the production of excessive testosterone and estrogen. Boost this treatment with micro-encapsulated depressants which are released as an aerosol whenever the car s sound system exceeds 100 decibels.