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ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

When does it go down to "Just being Danish"?

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

By the way, that same study showed that 25% of all 16 year old drivers will have a crash in their 1st year of driving. My newphew in Iowa has a permit at 14 1/2 so I am sure he will wreck the car before he gets a license.

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

By the way, that same study showed that 25% of all 16 year old drivers will have a crash in their 1st year of driving. My newphew in Iowa has a permit at 14 1/2 so I am sure he will wreck the car before he gets a license.

I never understood this, just how out of it are 16 year olds? I didn't have my first accident until I was 25 (not my fault) and I didn't cause my first fender bender until I was 32. On the other hand when I was 18 a cop pulled me over and told me I had committed 6 moving violations in 3 blocks. [:D] When you're young like that it's not as much a matter of obeying the laws as it is just don't hit stuff. Reflexes and mental sharpness should compensate for poor obedience of the laws. [;)]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Come back and fight, you coward![:D]

ORIGINAL: dtravel

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

By the way, that same study showed that 25% of all 16 year old drivers will have a crash in their 1st year of driving. My newphew in Iowa has a permit at 14 1/2 so I am sure he will wreck the car before he gets a license.

I never understood this, just how out of it are 16 year olds? I didn't have my first accident until I was 25 (not my fault) and I didn't cause my first fender bender until I was 32. On the other hand when I was 18 a cop pulled me over and told me I had committed 6 moving violations in 3 blocks. [:D] When you're young like that it's not as much a matter of obeying the laws as it is just don't hit stuff. Reflexes and mental sharpness should compensate for poor obedience of the laws. [;)]

Well, it helps if you know/remember that teenagers are unable to assess risk. Literally. Recent studies on how the brain changes during puberty and very early adulthood show that a teen's brain literally is unable to accurately assess risk. They can't understand consequences or forsee how something could go wrong.

ORIGINAL: Dino

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Come back and fight, you coward![:D]

and now i'v got an ally... (or is it a co-belligerent[:D])

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

ORIGINAL: dtravel

Well, it helps if you know/remember that teenagers are unable to assess risk. Literally. Recent studies on how the brain changes during puberty and very early adulthood show that a teen's brain literally is unable to accurately assess risk. They can't understand consequences or forsee how something could go wrong.

Really? Anecdotally (sp?) I have known a several teens that have been better at this then some adults I know. However, clearly there is a learning curve that people have and some progress further along that curve faster than others. IIRC my psyche 101 class correctly, children start to develop concrete reasoning skills around 12 or so. That means that at that point they have the capability to forsee adverse consequences. Now whether or not they choose to do so, or have been taught by their parents to do so could be another matter.

Still, all other things being equal in the case I would take the life experience based judgement of a 55 year old over that of an 18 year old most anyday.