D.+Persuasive+Essay

Vroom! Screech! Crash! Then sirens all around. Another young driver is the cause of another car accident. Too young and not experienced enough to stay safe on the road. The current driving age is 16 to get your license. The legal driving age needs to be raised to 17 because young people are wreckless drivers, they try to multitask, and they have little experience behind the wheel. Young people are wreckless drivers behing the wheel. They do not pay attention to the road or their surroundings. Teens like to speed down the roads, and swerve in and out of traffic. When teens see a yellow light they speed up and try to make it through. In some cases they end up running through a red light. Occasionally, some teens may pass a stop sign without even noticing it. Also, they try to leave skid marks on the road. In doing so the endanger themselves and the people around them. Teens think they can do many things while driving: drive, text, change music, and other dangerous things. Teens are very social and try to text while driving. This takes away their attention to the road, and this means they can cause an accident. Some drivers attempt to set their GPS up while driving at 50 mph. Even though it is illegal many teens have more people in the car than is allowed, so this means more distractions in the car than is necessary. The radio, CDs, and ipods are all usable in the cars we have today, and teens love their music. So when they are trying to change the station, or switch between CDs. All this is very dangerous to do when driving with little experience. Young drivers have a permit for nine months, but then they get their license. Nine months is not enough time to learn and experience everything there is to prepare a person to drive alone. Young drivers are not prepared to get on the highway and use it. I myself am not ready, and am scared when I must use it. Young drivers are not trained to be defensive drivers too. When the chance to avoid an accident comes they may overreact and cause another accident, or worsen the current one. Teens know the roads in the area they live, but they do not know what lies outside the boundaries they know. They legal driving age should be 17. Some people may say that teens will not learn if they do not get the chance. I say that they will not survive the roads if they do not get the necessary experience to survive. The young drivers can keep their permits longer so that they can gain the knowledge that they need while having extra pair of eyes to help watch out for them.