is my uncle right?

young drivers being inexperienced is a "problem" yes, but change the age, and instead of having 17 year olds that are inexperienced, you'll now have 21 year olds that are inexperienced. Not much different really. I do agree the driving test is far far too easy, and that is the main problem.

Tom.
 
rG-tom said:
young drivers being inexperienced is a "problem" yes, but change the age, and instead of having 17 year olds that are inexperienced, you'll now have 21 year olds that are inexperienced. Not much different really.
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much different.
at 21, even with the same level of experience you will be a little more mature than at 17, less likely to show off and less likely to act like a merchant banker behind the wheel.
same amount of skill, less chance that through stupidity you'll put yourself into situations where lack of skill becomes a problem.
 
MonkeyMan said:
You can't raise the age from 17 to 21. If I couldn't drive til 21 then I wouldn't have my job. The same goes for a lot of young people. Sure it might be fine for people at Uni, but some of us actually work for a living.
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this is the reason it can't happen.
it'd be discriminatory and therefore against the law to make the driving age 21.
MonkeyMan said:
Plus what magical thing happens at 21? You have little bit more maturity, but you can still be a complete idiot.
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i totally agree, but the fact is there's more chance male driver A is an idiot behind the wheel at 17 than the same guy a few years later.
 
Scuzi said:
Unless you are required to drive a DLA car with which I believe you can begin driving at 16. I think this is only in exceptional circumstances though for people who are disabled or people who are required to drive a DLA car for a disabled person.

For the rest of us it's 17 though.
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correct. I started driving on my 16th birthday and passed at 16 years old because im disabled. Like you say, its 17 for everyone else.
 
Violent-J said:
Well me and my mates all passed 1st time, I passed with 1 minor after 18 lessons with no non-instructor driving. I'm not saying every young driver is good, it depends on the individual but I would argue that reactions etc. do help I also believe that our control, lane discipline, observation, judgement and hazard perception are probably much higher than the average standard seeing as I know the highway code, got 35/35 68/75 in theory test, regularly checking mirrors and not being lazy with indicators and lanes like old drivers.

It could be argued that young drivers are a big liability and it's true that many are, due to boy racers etc. a high percentage of accidents and that is reflected in insurance premiums, but sensible young drivers are certainly the best, I'm intending to build a rally car soon and enter and win many races.
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