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By the time most people get behind the wheel, they have watched others (parents, family, friends) drive for 16 years.
Children learn a significant amount from example.
If a person exhibits poor driving, road rage, racing and eating while you are driving, how can it be reasonable to expect the children in the back watching this will be any different?
One thing ALL drivers have in common is that they have passed a minimum standard road test.
Raising the age of driving will have exactly the same effect as raising the minimum age of drinking. Nothing.
We need to start driver education at school at age 10, have them in the driver seat with supervision no later than 16 and the tests must be something that is hard to pass.
But until the parents start to model better driving when they are behind the wheel, we are spitting in the wind.
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