16-year-olds had fewer crashes, but 18-year-olds had 12 percent more, study finds
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from:msnbc.comTeen driving restrictions show mixed results
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LOL and everyone's time was wasted again.... D@mn you government, d@mn you!!!
Remove the restrictions and let us cull earlier.
What a bunch of conflicting BS.
The net outcome appears to be that 16-year olds - first-year drivers - are much better off under the graduated restrictions.
The article makes it sound like the restrictions are ineffective, but it says right in the article that the restrictions result in higher fatality rates for 18-year olds who don't even fall under the restrictions! If the restrictions don't apply to 18-year olds, then there's no correlation between those programs and fatalities for 18-year olds at all. This was a horrible article. Badly written or even worse grossly misleading.
I think the article was attempting to say that it looks like fatalities are "postponed" by the restrictions, i.e., while restricted the younger drivers have fewer fatalities but when they're lifted the fatalities go up. That information wouldn't have been known until they did the study. It's not BS, it's not horrible. You just have to know how to interpret it.
It's, what?, 10:00 at night. I can read pretty well - managed to get myself into every law school I applied to. But, if I have to put as much effort into a news article as I would reading a judge's decision in a law book, it's a damn horrible article. How do you even know that you've correctly interpreted what they were trying to say? You don't. Because it's so badly written there's virtually no way to tell.
I'm glad I got my license before all that GDL nonsense. Had I waited a week I would have been under the at the time time new rules.
Well, yeah, if you push back the age at which teens start learning how to drive at night and with distractions, the death rate will go down for the younger teens and up for the older teens. It's not the age, it's being an inexperienced driver.
My parents made me wait until May to get my driver's license even though I had been eligible to sit for the test the previous September. They didn't want me being a new driver during the icy weather. Well, guess what? That just pushed back skidding on a patch of black ice and getting into a fender-bender until the following year. I still had to learn how to drive safely in the winter, I just was 18 instead of 17 when that happened.
Yeah sadly no matter how many years they live some people just don't understand that concept =/= application.