[staytrue]

Too young to drive depends on the individual.

Many are capable at 9 or 10. Some are never ready.

I think the driving age is fine at 16 and accidents are caused by 1st year drivers no matter what their age.

[KoRn]

"I think the driving age is fine at 16 and accidents are caused by 1st year drivers no matter what their age."

I got into an accident on my first night out alone. A lady slammed on her brakes in front of me at a light that had just turned yellow, and I TAPPED her bumper. Two years later a magistrate comes to my house with legal papers from where she was suing me for $150,000. She settled with my insurance for $9,000.

[radiohead]

I think it is an individual issue, which can be negatively affected by the presence of a group. Some kids are fine at 16 (tho personally I think it is a little young). However, it seems like when a bunch of young kids get together, all thought goes out of the window.

It seems that most of the fatal accidents around here involve kids in groups, especially at night. I was almost broadsided in the middle of the day today, by a car w/a bunch of kids careening through an intersection where they should have stopped.

Lack of experience coupled with lack of attention due to high jinks in the car seem like a recipe for disaster.

[pepsionice]

I think if they would just say 16/17 year old's...could only be out driving between 0600 and 2000...alot of the stupid accidents would end. But no state has the guts to do that. So I'm guessing raising the age to 17 is the only method they could enact without serious complaints.

[moog]

Some farmchildren do learn to drive early. True.