Don't Raise The Driving Age

The legal age for driving should not be raised to 19, and there should be less restrictions on new drivers. As a young adult it is hard to grow up and learn life lessons if you have to be constantly chauffeured by your parents. You will rarely get out and experience life lessons for yourself if you are constantly being watched. At your final years of high school kids should receive more freedom to find out who they are and how to handle this responsibility properly. If you let people start driving when they are nineteen then they may be over loaded with too much responsibility. They will be moving out on their own, they will be able to go out to the bars, and they will be able to drive. Many may make some improper choices that could affect them for the rest of their lives, also all these responsibilities cost money. Many people learn how to manage money in high school due to driving. They learn how to budget their money because they have to pay for insurance and gas. If we didn't let kids start driving till they are nine teen, what would they be responsible for? All there money would just go to random spending and they would form bad spending habits. So when they become nine teen and they have to pay for housing, insurance, gas, and food how will they know to manage their money. They would probably get into money problems and end up living back home, broke, and having to start from square one all over again. Also the restrictions on drivers already are pretty harsh as it is, and to raise the punishments for breaking these rules is absurd. Most people these days are really worried about the environment, but the restrictions to only allow a new driver one passenger inhibits them to car pool. This means that there will be more cars on the road congesting traffic and putting more harmful emissions into the environment. So really all that they would be doing in enabling the kids to learn there responsibilities, and harming are environment.