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Men are deadlier behind the wheel than Women

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Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Originally posted by: jagec
yikes, how can they justify giving out licenses at 16?
Or not re-testing every year after 80?
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It takes some people a bit of time to get the hang of things.
If they gave them out at 17, then the 17 year would look like the 16 year on the chart ...
If they gave them out at 18, then the 18 year would look like the 16 year on the chart... etc etc etc
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very true about the younger end, however they should really restrict the licenses for longer periods of time (maybe until 19) like no night driving (when teens have their fun with their teen passengers preoccupying them)... or put in a system to restrict the amount of power a vehicle can have - I believe shanghai does this... before age X, you can only have a vehicle of ___ cc, and so forth. They can implement a "years driven" system instead. Making that reality is very difficult (using limiters on a per-individual basis), but it will save lives.

Can't trust parents to keep from giving their 17 year old a 325hp wrecking machine.
 
Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Originally posted by: jagec
yikes, how can they justify giving out licenses at 16?
Or not re-testing every year after 80?
Click to expand...

It takes some people a bit of time to get the hang of things.
If they gave them out at 17, then the 17 year would look like the 16 year on the chart ...
If they gave them out at 18, then the 18 year would look like the 16 year on the chart... etc etc etc
Click to expand...
very true about the younger end, however they should really restrict the licenses for longer periods of time (maybe until 19) like no night driving (when teens have their fun with their teen passengers preoccupying them)... or put in a system to restrict the amount of power a vehicle can have - I believe shanghai does this... before age X, you can only have a vehicle of ___ cc, and so forth. They can implement a "years driven" system instead. Making that reality is very difficult (using limiters on a per-individual basis), but it will save lives.

Can't trust parents to keep from giving their 17 year old a 325hp wrecking machine.
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I got mine the second I turned 15 and a lot of my friends had it at 14, and this was the late 1990s. Camaros and Mustangs were popular. Anecdotally, there were no problems that I recall. I can see why someone might take issue with it, though. I'd actually be curious to see the data from 14 and 15 year olds, although I believe the state I'm from is (was?) the only one to give a license that young, so the sample size would be incredibly small.
 
Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Originally posted by: jagec
yikes, how can they justify giving out licenses at 16?
Or not re-testing every year after 80?
Click to expand...

It takes some people a bit of time to get the hang of things.
If they gave them out at 17, then the 17 year would look like the 16 year on the chart ...
If they gave them out at 18, then the 18 year would look like the 16 year on the chart... etc etc etc
Click to expand...

Or they could make the test harder.
 
The chart clearly states "Fatalaty Rate per 100 Million Vehicle Miles Traveled". It doesn't say Driven. The statistics, as presented, are flawed and thus mean nothing.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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