Quote Originally Posted by JKExotics View Post
I say make it 25, teenagers should not be allowed to drink, at least not at public parties and clubs. I've seen way too many DUIs in my life and too many innocent lives ruined by some knucklehead teenage driver. Sorry but 18 just isn't mature enough.

In fact the legal driving age should be bumped up to 21 in my opinion. Since you guys are throwing European stats around anyone from there? I was BORN and RAISED there, I also know that just any knucklehead can just walk into a DMV office (in the US) take a test my 12 year old daughter could ace, a laughable skills test and obtain a license as easily here in the US.

Where as in Europe they make you go to school study after doing the school bit take a much harder test (oh mind you, you also need to know how to drive a stick) and then take a much harder skills test where they can fail you over one little mistake. That my friends should be the way to get licenses here in the US, and then maybe just maybe we'll stop killing people because of foolish teenagers.
I agree with the drinking part. All of my mothers accidents were due to being hit by a drunk (any slightly severe ones), and my fathers were all his fault, as he was drunk.
I agree the driving test is easy sometimes, but my boyfriend who got a 35 on the ACT, failed the first time, and was a very good driver. I know how to drive stick as well, I prefer it.
What tests are you talking about that are easier or harder? European tests, I was told are not that much of a higher level than ours, unless there at a very high specific school. Unlike the Japanese, where they go to school most of the hours of the day and most of the days of the week.