I shall argue in this essay that there is no correlation between road safety problems and how old an adult is permitted to drive cars or motorbikes; irrationalities should be seen in the claim made by the topic.
The safety problems emerging in traffic are nothing correlated to how old an adult gets the driving license; mostly, whether the driving process is with or without security is mainly decided by the driving ability and focus of the drivers. For those who myopically link the two elements together, they may superficially recognize the phenomenon—indeed, there are young adults who just have been entitled to drive their cars causing a majority of traffic accidents. But the truth should be seen past: it is not the age that leads to those tragedies, but the lack of experience and instant reactions in dealing with complex transport situations. Those experienced drivers can feasibly manipulate their wheels to realize the smooth driving, or to avoid the potential hazards that are frequently coming along in their daily witnesses, but it is so hard for a “new-comer” to do exactly the same: they perform clumsily in making the judgement of the traffic flows in front, and are always busy with getting close to every instrument -reflecting mirrors, the handbrake, etc.—necessarily used in their safe driving. That means, whenever get the licenses, individuals would always suffer from the period of being the potential risky elements on the road. The policy in the claim, ergo, is extremely unreasonable to be proposed as a proper policy.
Before scrutinizing what is the most proper way of dealing with road security, one must examine the rooted reasons lying behind related facts. Better choices should be made on launching programs or developing policies adhering to the true causes of the emergence of those accidents—what really makes the disorders of the traffic system, certainly, is not the age of those drivers, but factors concerning the driving skills and subtleties emerging during the driving procedure. Therefore, regulations are more suggested in bettering the training part during the driving license tests to make sure that newly qualified drivers would be more skilful in dealing with complex traffic situations, or in severely banning any distractions during the driving hours: a longer real road driving practice could be involved in the probation of drivers, to make sure that they won’t panic or mishandle the vehicles in some extreme circumstances; supervisions like cameras or cable televisions, are recommended on roads to keep watches on the drivers, to make sure they are not playing mobile phones during the driving. The aforementioned means, though with flaws, are definitely more effective than the action of absurdly increasing the age limit of drivers, since they are focusing more on the essence of the problem, but not the unrelated causes.
In conclusion, I would very much agree that increasing the minimum age permission of driving is not the way of dealing with traffic safety since I too share the gift of foresight of seeing the essential cruxes of a problem.
