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

Nowadays, some sectors of society are in favour of getting a driving license with more

age

than is permitted in the present in order to improve road safety. In my opinion, I strongly disagree as I do not think that

this

problem is a matter of

age

. I consider that

this

is about better education and consciousness.

To begin

with,

age

would not finish with the danger on the roads. There are many cases in which teenagers are better prepared to

drive

than their parents as they have all the fresh information and it is easier for them to remember everything. The statistics show that a high percentage of car accidents could be prevented if the driver would be more aware at the time of the collision.

Following

this

, it has been claimed that the worst distractor on the streets are mobile phones, as drivers use them for numerous reasons, even for GPS, and they do not pay attention properly

while

driving.

In other words

, distractors are riskier than

age

.

Furthermore

, increasing the minimum legal

age

for driving would be very discriminatory, as there are not enough reasons to argue

this

measure. These days, the parents of youngsters 16 years old that are getting a permit to

drive

, need to be agreed with it, assuming certain legal responsibility for them. In these cases, teenagers have to pass through many instances to prove that they really can

drive

.

Subsequently

, if the minimum

age

changes, society and teenagers would be assuming that they are not prepared to act responsibly, just because they are too young when the majority of car crashes are occasioned by older people. In conclusion, if society and governments really want to improve road safety, they will need much more than just increasing the minimum

age

to

drive

. If they do

this

, would be a silly and discriminatory measure, ignoring all the information supported by statistics. In

this

sense, I absolutely disagree with the idea of increasing the

age

to get a driving license as I personally believe that people of all ages really need to be well educated,

drive

carefully and respect all the rules on the streets.