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Some people think that the best way to improve road safety is to increase the minimum legal age for driving a car or motor-bike. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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It has been said that the minimum legal
age
 for driving and riding should be increased so as to improve
road
 safety. Personally, I firmly disagree with
this
 idea for two main reasons.
To begin
 with, in order to improve
road
 safety, we should emphasize people’s driving and riding skills rather than their
age
. The main reason why there are thousands of traffic accidents is that because the driving tests are too simple, those who do not have standard techniques still qualify for driving licenses.
For instance
,
although
 some teenagers do not have driving licenses, they drive well on the
road
.
However
,some adults are not good at driving which leads to numerous driving accidents.
Consequently
,there is no doubt that young
age
 is not always the reason why
roads
 are unsafe and driving skills are the most essential part of
road
 security. The second reason is that a proper design of
roads
 is more essential than people’s driving
age
. When the
roads
 are designed in a strange way,
although
 people follow them properly, they still will cause car accidents. Take, Taiwan,
for example
. Taiwan is regarded as a “pedestrian hell” by BBC
due to
 the fact that pedestrians have to walk closely with vehicles as the government did not design
roads
 which are suitable for every
road
 user. In conclusion, designing good
roads
 for users is far more important than increasing the minimum
age
 for driving. To summarize, as far as I am concerned, I disagree with the idea of rising the legal
age
 for driving and riding is not useful to improve
road
 security for two major reasons.
Firstly
,training the public’s driving skills before they get their licenses is more effective to improve
road
 security.
Secondly
, planning out
roads
 which are suitable for every
road
 user is
also
 a key point to help the improvement of
road
 safety.
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