Is it time to take the keys away from our teenage drivers?
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Scott en Aztlán <newsgroup> wrote: >For the >most part, however, these studies reaffirm what I've been saying all >along: teenaged drivers, as a group, often don't have the good >judgement to safely operate a 2-ton death machine. How different is the risk taking and cell phone using behavior for teenage drivers versus drivers in general? Or knowing someone you would be afraid to ride with due to dangerous driving? While teenagers likely do have a higher tendency to take stupid risks (made worse by lack of experience), there are also plenty of non-teenage drivers who take stupid risks and/or never seem to have learned anything by experience (e.g. the driver whose car has the front end smashed in who still tailgates). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Timothy J. Lee Unsolicited bulk or commercial email is not welcome. No warranty of any kind is provided with this message. |
Is it time to take the keys away from our teenage drivers?
In article >,
Timothy J. Lee > wrote: >In article >, >Scott en Aztlán <newsgroup> wrote: >>For the >>most part, however, these studies reaffirm what I've been saying all >>along: teenaged drivers, as a group, often don't have the good >>judgement to safely operate a 2-ton death machine. > >How different is the risk taking and cell phone using behavior >for teenage drivers versus drivers in general? Or knowing someone >you would be afraid to ride with due to dangerous driving? The study was done without a control group or sample, which of course makes it unable to answer that question. It's just a (probably IIHS-funded) push for graduated licensing, which has previously been justified based on scary figures like "40% of teen accidents happen in between 9pm and 6am" (said figure being 38% of the day...) and based on a "decrease" in fatal crashes from 299 to 301 after graduated licensing was instituted. Insurance companies like graduated licensing because by allowing teens to drive less, it reduces the company's exposure, but by keeping those teens on the books as licensed drivers, they still get the same high premiums. They'd do it to adults if they could get away with it. -- There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can result in a fully-depreciated one. |
Is it time to take the keys away from our teenage drivers?
> While teenagers likely do have a higher tendency to take stupid
> risks (made worse by lack of experience), there are also plenty of > non-teenage drivers who take stupid risks and/or never seem to have > learned anything by experience (e.g. the driver whose car has the > front end smashed in who still tailgates). When I went overseas for a couple of years, I left my car with my sister in law. When I LEFT, the body was in perfect condition, other than a couple of hail dents on the upward facing surfaces. When I got back, two doors were smashed in, the front grill was caved in (the parts that weren't completely torn off, that is) and a tail-light was broken. She admitted that all of the damage was her fault. Anyway, I wasn't planning to keep that car much longer, so I drove it that way. It was the PERFECT car for New England driving. I always had the right-of-way, regardless of whether I actually did or not. :) Anyway, my point is . . . don't assume that the driver currently in the car is the driver who smashed up the front end. -Dave |
Is it time to take the keys away from our teenage drivers?
In article >, Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> No offsense, but I'm going to err on the side of caution and assume > that the driver with the smashed-up car is someone I don't want to > allow to violate my space cushion. On the same trip where the kid turned left directly in front of me causing the right front corner of my car to be smashed, some guy on a motorcycle decided to have a battle of wills with me for space, where it would have been the right front corner that would have hit him. Not exactly the brightest bulb. |
Is it time to take the keys away from our teenage drivers?
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:48:15 -0800, Scott en Aztlán
> wrote: >multitasking abilities: the adults would dial one digit and then look >back at the road before dialing the next digit; the teenagers would >take their eyes off the road and focus on the keypad while they dialed >the entire number. The teenagers in the study did not see 53% (that's Great article, but it's left me wondering why the **** people are looking at their phone to dial? Did they change the keypad in the past 20 years? Can people not remember that 0 is between * and #? Has voice-dialing really not caught on, even though my phones have had it for 5 years now? What the ****? I rarely look at my phone unless I'm reading the Call ID, a text message, or online on it. What did these morons do in the days before cell phones, when the number wasn't displayed as you type it? Dave --- http://www.davidphogan.com/sdroads Amature Ass(phalt) and more! |
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