Kansas Kansas Driving AgeDriving Age

““Did we do the right Did we do the right thing?”thing?”

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A legislation was A legislation was passed in the state passed in the state of Kansas in 2009. of Kansas in 2009. The law declare that The law declare that starting on 2010, starting on 2010, the legal the legal unrestricted driving unrestricted driving age will be raised age will be raised from 16 to 17. from 16 to 17.

I’m bored. Hey lets

make our teenagers’

lives miserable.

My IdeaMy Idea The driving age of Kansas should be The driving age of Kansas should be

lowered to the age of sixteen, as it lowered to the age of sixteen, as it once was.once was.

1.1. 16 year olds drive just as well as 16 year olds drive just as well as older drivers.older drivers.

2.2. Many problems will occur if 16 year Many problems will occur if 16 year olds can not drive.olds can not drive.

3.3. There are many alternative ways to There are many alternative ways to make the road safer.make the road safer.

16 year olds drive just as 16 year olds drive just as well as older drivers.well as older drivers.

Driving is something Driving is something based on based on experience not age.experience not age.

In fact, teens should In fact, teens should learn to make good learn to make good choices in advance, choices in advance, and that’s where and that’s where driving comes in.driving comes in.

Only some teens drive Only some teens drive unsafe so, not all of unsafe so, not all of them need to be them need to be punished.punished.

The graduated The graduated drivers’ licensing drivers’ licensing program already program already gives the teens 50 gives the teens 50 hours of driving hours of driving practice with an adult.practice with an adult.

I drive safe!!!

Many problems will occur Many problems will occur if 16 year olds can not if 16 year olds can not

drive.drive. Teens need Teens need

to drive to to drive to work.work.

Teens need Teens need to do to do chores.chores.

Parents will be Parents will be forced to drive forced to drive their kids to their kids to dance, dates, dance, dates, and multiple and multiple other school other school activities.activities.

Teens may resort Teens may resort to biking, but it is to biking, but it is just too difficult just too difficult to do that in the to do that in the winter.winter.

There are many There are many alternative ways to make alternative ways to make

the road safer.the road safer. Increase the Increase the

amount of required amount of required supervised driving supervised driving hours.hours.

Drivers caught Drivers caught driving unsafe can driving unsafe can have their license have their license suspended for long suspended for long periods of time.periods of time.

Opposing ViewOpposing View

One out of every One out of every five sixteen year five sixteen year olds is estimated olds is estimated to have a crash to have a crash in the first year.in the first year.

5000 of them will 5000 of them will die in that year.die in that year.

81% of deaths 81% of deaths are passengersare passengers

Thirty-four billion Thirty-four billion dollars is spend dollars is spend each year to pay each year to pay for car accidents for car accidents (repair and (repair and medical medical attention).attention).

Hey I might die.

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