Here's Why The Driving Age Is 16 In Most States. Should It Be? - Cheddar Explains 

Age and maturity matters too. Ofcourse there are exceptions, but racing drivers have nothing to do with it, it's not at all the same thing.

Yeah but at 16 the brain hasn't fully developed yet.

@@Ibhenriksen - ....... What? Dexterity and reaction are developed into your early teens. You thinks 16 year olds move around like toddlers? The driving age should be certainly raised but this argument you're using is shit.

@@moegermsYes they're developed, but the development doesn't stop, it continues passed 16.

It is about maturity but the typical teenager isn't mature enough to pursue a pilot's license or have the mentality for racing. Those teens are the exception.

Seriously, I thought the same thing. If a family doesn't want to pay for their teen to drive, they don't have to let their teens drive. Taking away the option isn't helping anyone.

The US has the same policy, as long as an insured driver is with the teen it is covered. Edit: Under most policies at least

Make it so you can learn to drive (drive with parents) from 16 and get licence at 18. Thats how it is in Europe and we have waaaay less car crashes and deaths related to cars, (depends a bit on country, but generally so) Also it aint just about driving experience, it's about maturity

alot of country allow at 18 driving alone...

As an Aussie 18 year old with a motorcycle learners permit I pay $1600(AUD) per year for insurance so seeing the $2600(USD) in the USA for a car? That is insane.

Why_C GamingHD ah so you can skip accompanied driving if you want? In Australia you need to do accompanied driving for a year regardless of whether you start at 16 or >17

@@thomaswiseman3887 you need to in Germany too for ages 16&17, just not 18 n above

most insurance still high for teenager... i should know since i crash alot when i am young driver... since too many people break driving law and i can not tell who is not in normal driving habit...

@@thomaswiseman3887 until one turns 18 one is ONLY allowed to do accompanied driving... But we also have several dozens of hours of theory class and several dozen hours of driving class (NOT accompanied driving but with an actual driving instructor). This includes highway, country road, city roads and NIGHT drives. If one gets the drivers license as an 18 year old (or as a 17 year old but simply dont drive until one turns 18) one never does any accompanied driving (except several dozen driving lessons with professional driving teachers and then the actual driving tests).

@philip Trevor It depends on how many years in a row, you had no accident caused by your fault. The more years without an accident, the cheaper insurance gets ususlly. A 45 year old wo had cause an accident just two years ago, will pay lilely more, than a 25 year old who never had an accident.

PatheticTV exactly what I was thinking! Improve public transit and the argument ceases to exist.

@@realBeltalowda Less cars less crashes less CO2. Honestly weather you wish to save lives or the environment the best thing to do remains the same.

This thought only works in urban landscapes where it's practical to build alternative infrastructure for travel but in rural and smaller suburban areas the need for such public transportation would be costly and unnecessary.

@@jamesfeww But in America most cities have no public transportation, or if they do it's laughably small

@@jamesfeww I live in a “smaller suburban area” and public transit is absolutely viable if the city was up zoned to a normal density and composition

Bad idea. Flying is much easier to simulate cause it's more predictable and doesn't have as much outside factors as driving

@@Dulooo I agree, that is why we have yet to see autonomous driving realized. "Autopilot" on aircraft has been implemented for some time.

cool dead Where would they obtain a simulator realistic enough to do that (with steering wheel and what not). It would need to be in place where others would also wait to use it or spend money to buy one and use it without any way to check if you are using it properly, btw pilots don’t train in simulators they train with actual planes accompanied with an instructor in a similar way to that of driving school

@@adeadmeme8068 You can use games such as City Car Driving to simulate driving with a wheel set for only a couple hundred dollars. I have been using them since I was 9, and next year I will finally be able to drive independently (18). I have been comfortable driving on public roads since I first started, whereas a lot of people who havent used the simulators are quite nervous and need a lot of practise in parking lots.

-TJ- That is not the issue at hand, he recommended a set of hours of experience which would need a person to supervise, what you did is practice with a simulator but ultimately the thing that would give you your license is the driver’s exam which may prove that a person can drive well if focused precisely on that. It is like an exam on school you can study and pass it but you’ll eventually forget or ignore things that may not be important and in the end you may get only a basic idea of the topic. Essentially you’ll end up with the knowledge that the simulator or teacher provided but lack the knowledge of the real world (especially in a country full of road rages and entitled drivers that don’t know what a turn signal is) Sorry for the long ass comment btw

Yeah she was, before she chucked it to the passenger seat lol

Wesley Crabajales Yes! She was texting and didn’t immediately release the phone. She started texting “I just crash...” until realized she was gonna get caught and threw it at the seat.

@@byrlink ha

Even though I think 14 is too young (maybe 16 would be better), I really like the policy that grant people living in rural areas the possibility to drive to school, etc. I myself come from a farm that had a schoolbus, but the schedule was not very beneficial. Sorry for the bad English, I'm high as a kite.

Don’t know if in the USA there is difference between motorcycle license and car license, bu here in Italy any 14 year old can get a driving license limited to low-power motorcycles/scooter (don’t know the actual word sorry), so they can have that kind of autonomy

Maybe a law was passed allowing 14 year olds in Nevada to get a driver's license, under the stipulations you mentioned, but all I can find are news articles from 2019 stating that such a law has been proposed. According to Nevada's current DMV website there is not currently such a provision in place. Maybe my Googling powers are wanting. Or maybe you heard something about the proposed bill on the news and just assumed that it became law.

Nicholas Kaiser Some states have it at 13, for those that live in rural areas.

youdoitillwatch Here’s a basic website, that describes it... www.dmv.org/articles/what-is-a-hardship-drivers-license/ Iowa has it at 14 1/2, and you must live more than a mile from school. iowadot.gov/mvd/driverslicense/under-18

VICTOR Å is that real?

well well well.... this is why i alway look at car when it going before crossing the street...

@@xuhuiming2694 no, this is but a joke. I was going to say I never got in an accident nor pulled over, but mid comment I decided to spice things up a little in hopes to get likes 🥴

@@victorsvidss Well played... 🤣😂 Before anybody ran you over here 🏃🏼‍♂️ 🚗 💨

I got my learner permit when I just turned 16 in the Dominican Republic, 45 days after got my license. Never had an accident. I guess I just didn't like speeding tickets.

I started driving at 18, but I actually feel like I've gotten worse over time.

Oh damn mine is 230 km/h. It got kinda wobbly so I decided to slow down again

I feel the same way. I'm 19 and started driving at 17. This video really made me think about my driving habits. I should seriously consider worse-case scenario when I drive.

Don't worry, you'll meet some 17-20 yo people on the roads. Isn't it great?

I sorta started driving when I was around 8. We had an old Volvo without a passenger airbag so I could sit in the front and steer while my dad did the gas and brake. Only did that on minor roads when there wasn't anyone else around. First time I drove fully was a little after I turned 16, though I was a little over 18 before I got my full licence and drove solo. I was never much of a speed demond, parents usually told me to drive faster when they were with me. Fastest I have ever driven was 95 MPH when I was maybe 20 or 21, it was on a big open highway and I only did it for a few seconds as it was pretty scary. These days I basically just go with the flow of traffic on the highway, and the speed limit on surface streets. The exception is I95 South of Richmond VA, as most people go like 90-100, but my current car starts to feel unstable from turbulence around 87 MPH, not to a horrible extent, but enough to make me grip the wheel tighter then is comfortable.

CZsWorld Simpson did it

That works in cities not in rural areas.

Because then Exxon Mobile won't be able to kill us all

@@yaakovs7301 but still, the US has many cities with big enough populations to need a good public transit.

Because we are not in England!

We aren’t compact like Europe

Exactly.

That's a terrible way to think of things. Instead improve public transport in the US and make college more affordable. Done

Ben Auto and Oil lobbyists have fought for over a century to not let that happen. Car ownership is also deeply ingrained in American consumer culture. Americans will literally go into debt to buy a new vehicle that they cannot afford as a status symbol. It’s hilariously sad

@@CortezBumf just vote and give middle fingers to the american consumer culture

@@CortezBumf yeah but the solution isn't to drive more. The solution is not letting shitty corrupt people in office and to do that we can't let people easily fooled by propaganda vote. Therefore stupid people shouldn't be allowed to vote

so is your drivers licensing system

It's not about age though It's about reaction time There should be tests requiring you to be around average reaction time

@@dustinjames1268 That is a false pretense. Most 13 year olds have much better reaction time than adults, if the test was Fortnite for example. What I'm getting at, is that regardless of age - training / experience are more important. Think about how many wrecks you've avoided being involved in because someone cut you off and you had to slam the brakes, etc. You have experience driving so you can clearly see what's going to happen before it does. Proper training can help make up for the lack of experience tho.

@@Purriah All the training and experience in the world wont save you if your reaction time is too slow

@Anime Tiddies Glad to see that Even humans when at their absolute best have terrible reaction time. Something like 0.1 seconds.

@@dustinjames1268 it’s not about reaction time, it’s about experience and mental fitness which might include reaction time

What do you propose?

@@Miles300s lower drinking age and higher minimum driving age

@@MonkoK14 While I agree that raising the minimum driving age may work, what would lowering the minimum drinking age serve to do?

@@Miles300s BC it's 18 here haha, no I'm sure I could come up with some sort of reasoning but not in the middle of the night lol, apologies, was off the cuff

More like: “So, you’re 18? Sorry kid, you can’t drink booze or smoke. But hey, you could enlist in military, operate devastating weapons, kill people abroad and receive medals for it!”

Haha

@God Trojan He meant even if the minimum age was 18 18 year olds would still have a higher chance of dying in a car accident It's not because of their age It's because they have no experience

To be clear. I understand the idea Cheddar is trying to convey in showing parts of the brain turning to blue at different rates and that 'blue' is supposed to mean 'mature'. However, no references to the study are linked in the video description, and not once in the video does it explain what the study was actually tracking (chemicals, electrical signals, hormones, etc...), it just says 'the brain turns blue as it matures' and I feel like thats a very vague description.

Taylor Smith This is Cheddar, not Vox, but I agree with you about your point. They didn’t really say how they got to the conclusion that blue = mature

@@crazyoncoffee whoops good catch, I find Cheddar Vox's videos to be really similar and mean no ill will toward either, just want more info

I think her brain is the only one that's blue.

Legally you are dead . . with your ALL-CAPS-NAME from your birth certificate (hijacked your certificate of live birth). If no status corrected after 7 years as in 7 years old, you are deemed, legally dead. You can do your status correction at any time, but other than the uber rich, those in the know, most humans will never know. Or someone tells them but they laugh and say, that couldn't be true and never investigate. The internet can be used for truth, propaganda and distractions. You decide what's right for you.

@@tooshay7396 it is called being racist against preteens.

@@davidbrown8303 how can someone be racist against someone's age? This whole time I thought racism had to do with a person's race not age.

ah yes i can feel my brain turn blue as i age

Such a shitty explanation right? 😂

Maybe you'll understand when your brain turns bluer.

It depends on person and place. I would not trust even 100 kids in a big city, definetly more than one of them would crash

Where do you live? Cause I have no idea where this would be okay

@Austin Martín Hernández if he was driving on a private land than probably not. For example driving a 4x4 on a big farm.

I get you argument. I've seen a lot of kids driving tractors and stuff in Polish countryside. My dad started to teach me how to drive when I was around 12. Always on empty side roads in a middle of nowhere and always supervised. So I knew the basics when I started my driving course. I didn't waste any time on a curse on learning how to operate clutch and stuff, just jump right into learning how to drive in a real traffic. But starting this early depends on a kid and conditions. There is a lack of safe empty places to train a kid to drive in a city, also driving on normal roads in cities is way more demanding than in countryside. I don't think I would trust a 12-14 year old to drive alone. I've almost got run over by a kid speeding on a forest road in an old Fiat 126p. Yeah he could drive just fine, but he wasn't aware how dangerous a car is.

@@pingwingugu5 I am from Croatia and I know a 10 year old who is a better driver than I an 18 year old am.

Parents would take me to snowy parking lots to try skidding around. Only had to use that knowledge once, but pretty sure I would have spun into the guardrail if I hadn't had all that practice.

@@scottthewaterwarrior ah yes, the good ol skidding test, my parents made me do it with and without the electric assists on to see the difference, luckily this also saved me. The most important skills you need to know only come into play on rare occasions.

@@SuperFrankieOSX Some of the early vehicles I drove didn't even have those assists to begin with! Our 98 Ford Windstar Didn't even have working ABS by the time I started driving it! The 2002 Volvo XC70 I drove latter only had ABS and traction control, no stability control, though the latter didn't even work that well. It was also AWD, which actually made it worse as if the front wheels starting slipping it would send power to the rear ones causing the back to kick out. Knowing that is what saved me though: hit a highway on ramp too fast, in the rain, and with old tires. It started to spin and probably would have slid right into the guardrail if I hadn't countersteered and gave it lots of gas. Worst snow car I drove though was a 2001 SAAB 93 Convertible. Even at rather low speeds it would understeer and just plow ahead for days! Only time I ever got the rear end out was by yanking the e-brake, but otherwise it would just go straight, whether you wanted it to or not! Currently I drive a 2015 Subaru Forrester, it handles snow really well, better then my dad's Chevy Equinox even though he pits snow tires on that. It will spin if you turn hard and floor it, but I've rarely even engaged the ABS outside of practicing.

@@scottthewaterwarrior I see, my first car which I still own was a 1968 mustang, it obviously has none of the assists, and then the second car I owned was a 94 wrangler with broken ABS, I learned quite a lot in that 3 months of driving it lol

Excactly. Ive been driving on the farm since i was 12. Im pretty sure im more qualified to drive then most 16-18 y/o.

Yaakov Shotkin that’s true, but I disagree, the government should definitely help get insurance prices under control. I don’t think raising the age will help much, if at all, but with a car basically being a necessity, properly trained young drivers shouldn’t have to pay as much as they do

@@iskerop the govt can't magically lower insurance prices without increasing taxes or taking money from somewhere else. Insurance is priced based on one's risk as determined by underwriters. As long as there is a free market insurance companies will try to keep prices as low as possible in order to compete with other companies for business as well as offering other services/perks for which customers are willing to pay more.

No practice? Sounds like the new drives won’t have training

how much do you pay for insurance?

Keep major tax sources of cities that have crumbled infrastructure and not enforcing rules. Just what New York has shown

I feel the old people judging me by proxy

Random User I’m not judging kids at all… I don’t think the kid involved in this accident was involved in the accident because he was a kid… He was a drunken idiot! Don’t have to be young to be a drunken idiot!

I agree! An 18 year old can get a license significantly easier than a 16 year old in most states, so if anything the 16 year olds are more experienced. It's experience that matters, not a mere 2 year age difference.

You can't drink before 21 because it's bad for your health So if you're 21 and drinking you should know what you're putting yourself into

Yeah same That's what my parents are done with me I'm 16 and I'm currently learning But they say they won't let me have a license and drive by me own until I'm 18

Agree! Most teens don't need cars if they live in one town where everything is close. However, I'm one of the teens to who a car is pretty much a necessity, since my divorced parents live 40 miles apart and I spend half the time in both homes which makes my activities 20 plus miles of driving each way depending on what home I'm in. If teens are found in circumstances where not having a license either stresses out their parents or makes life harder, by all means the law should let them get one early. There's no way North Dakota or Iowa can raise their age to 18, since kids live 5 plus miles from school and parents need cars to get to work to pay the bills.

She mentioned that... along with 100 other comments. Also it's not just about experience, many dont start driving till 18 anyways. What was your point exactly?

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j that raising the driving age wouldn't actually change the fact the new drivers are at the highest risk. Also, why the hostile tone?

@@MSpencer1998 hostile tone? Since when do we choose tones for our youtube comments? New drivers don't need to be at a higher risk. If you start learning with parent from age 16, you'll have well enough driving experience, also there is a reason there are driving tests. Maybe they should be harder. Higher minimum age would decrease crashes in 3 ways; 1: obvious but less people driving = less accidents 2: more time to learn 3: Brain maturity matters. How much depends on the individual, but generally an 18 year old will think more clearly and logically than a 16 year old.

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j I'm not saying any of those aren't valid, but an 18 year-old who has never driven almost definitely would have a higher collision rate than a 17 year-old who has driven for a year. Experience has a massive effect on skill, not that something else can't.

@@MSpencer1998 well obviously, thing is, an 18 year old aswell as anyone else should need to properly learn before they get their licence. Why would anyone go out in traffic with no experience?

US you can’t be out after 10

@@randomuser5443 yeah with the restricted license you can't be out between 12 to 3 am

The US isn’t just cities you know

@@randomuser5443 What's your point? Public transport can happen outside cities too.

@@nonegiven2830 what about in the rural Midwest where you might be 5 + miles from the closest town, school, or friend and it snows half the year and is frigid cold?

@@finnackerson9114 public transport can still be a thing. I'm not saying it should be the only thing, just that we need to re-evaluate things. Most people sit in a traffic jam in their old beater of a car and think that "luxury" would be getting a fancy new car with heated seats and aircon, etc. And then sit in that same traffic in a nice environment. Personally, I'd consider it luxury to get where I'm going faster, which would happen if public transport had better funding as it'd result in fewer vehicles on the road, meaning fewer traffic jams. That doesn't mean that no one gets a car, just that areas shouldn't be focused on cars, which is largely why people "need" cars these days.

Evan Pangaribuan they are already in Florida and California

@@josephb.3841 yea i said USA should make more in every states if it can

Actually, they wouldn't go to jail if you crashed.

Pretty sure they would since the legal driving age here is 18 🙈 but well I’m about to be and since I have been driving for almost three years now, I will pass that test easily 😏 I hope

The older the better. Raising the age to 21-25 would definetly help, but older people are more in neeed of cars than small kids. Experience is needed yes, but you get that from a year or two of driving. Then it's up to logic and impulse

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j 21-25??? I hope you're joking... The issue is not age, it's driving experience. You would still see an increased risk of crashing even if you raised it into the 20s. The reason why is because they're new to driving. They just started, they're bound to make mistakes. It has nothing to do with age, it's because they're new and less skilled than someone who has done it longer. You would see this increased risk with new drivers regardless of age.

@@freethinker1017 a kid doesnt through aswell and as logically as a more grown up person. Age matters.

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j I'm not even 16 and I have a part time job. Teens who have jobs need often need and deserve a way to get themselves to work, and often teens have jobs because they need to support their family. If upwards of two years of experience is what is needed for safe drivers then that is what needs to be enforced. It's not like 16 year olds are totally incapable of driving safely.

@@freethinker1017 People in their 20s though would be more responsible/mature than driving in your teen years. Yes there is earlier experience the younger you drive. Although I would doubt the increased risk of crashing on average because of being more mature and responsible an even quicker learning when you are older because your brain is more developed on average.

I mean, they give context

As soon as he grows a spine. He is being bullied and can’t even look those fuckers in the eye.

Conor Neill also worth noting that it’s just lack of experience 😂 if it was 18 same stats would come

Also how tf they measure “brain development”

But they have to be with an adult at all times

Next time I leave my SUV idling for 15 minutes, I’m going to think of you.

AvangionQ no

@Jhon Smith Why

Have you been on the long roads of the US? A manual isn’t useful

@@randomuser5443 Yes...I went from California to Texas. And I deliver pizzas in a manual car.

Yup. America needs to change its car culture

schools talking about it often doesn't help much.

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j but still I just feel like accidents like these can be prevented so easily nice name btw

@philip Trevor but it's just the fact it's just the fact that teens and young adults Drive like that they only have a few days left on the planet it just seems like so much common sense that cars aren't toys and should be taken more seriously and that you just hear about these crashes and think this was so preventable and it's a shame that innocent people died cuz of somebody didn't think

Well, the car enthusiast community is trying to change that. Look up Bladed Angel and Donut Media. They're car channels that are based on car culture and encourage their viewers to follow the laws and even talk about ones coming in the future. They also encourage safe driving habits and awares of the vehicle you drive.

the later the better

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j Then you're just going to see an increased risk of crashing with people of a later age then. It doesn't have to do with age, it has to do with experience. If you're brand new to driving, you're bound to make mistakes. You're not as skilled as someone who has done it more than you. You would see an increased risk of crashing with new drivers no matter what age. It's simply because they're NEW to it. They just started driving. It's not about age.

@@freethinker1017 thats why you can LEARN to drive together with a parent from age 16. Also age matters, give a 6 year old child that have been learning math for 3 years a math problem and give the same to a 10 year old that's only been learning for one year. Who'll do it faster?

@@freethinker1017 Just curious, do you have the statistics to back that up? Are drivers in places where the minimum licensing age is 18 have twice the fatality rate of drivers over 20 in those jurisdictions? This is, by the way, not me arguing for raising the minimum age, I am ok with the increased risk posed by younger and/or less experienced drivers.

@@fordhouse8b Think about this as an example for something else. For example, I'm studying IT, which involves learning a lot about how computers work. I know how computers worked since I was 10 years old. When I started college at 19, I knew a lot for stuff from the past, which has already helped me in certain classes. Other students that never touched computer software or compound have been struggling since they never had experience with them. Also, look at some IT jobs online. You may see the requirements saying some need x amount of years doing this. My point here is that, like some said, it's the experience that matters, not the age. I got my license at age 16 and I'm so glad I got to drive earlier since I had more experience driving and understand the rules of the road better.

its not about age, it's experience. And 120 hours is a lot compared to us states, which have more like 40-50 hours.

Rudie Obias why

@@gabrieldgallegos 16: drinking age (

@Ramen Lover heh, like they don't get the stuff from their 12...

There are tons of local jobs, you can walk, bicycle or use public transportation, and still the main priority should be school, not a job.

how many compulsory hours did you do in theory and practice in driving school? Driving in the city, out of town and on the highway by day and by night, even if there remain some elements that you ask yourself "how did they pass the exams", it is not better to improve the learning system when driving, I have made nonsense, like "drifting" in a square with a front-wheel drive and manual gearbox on snow days (which lately rarely happens where I live), but those stunts helped me to avoid going into a car and into the ditch because of the black ice , only to discover at that point 10 cars had gone off the road, moral counts both the severe exams and the experience to be a good driver. Sorry for the long text and maybe grammar error

Investing in public infrastructure that exist in areas that could never afford it

While it is significantly worse. There are obviously mechanisms in place to provide transportation to schools for those that don't have a car or are younger than 16.

Underbone mopeds

And fun getting the mid west to put what little money they get into that

all cars in australia are auto auto is best car

@@Brick-Life he is talking about how bad she is.

America, that place with roads longer than France, where an automatic is better

Old people run the government and ageism is something the US has fucked ourselves with