Originally Posted by Rollo
I should like to point out with all of this that society expects its members by some degree to become fully functioning citizens by the time they are 18. At age 18 the Inland Revenue relaxes the dependancy rules, and people have the right to vote.
By raising the driving age to 18, in effect you're confining people who might be qualified to work, to a life of scrounging and using public transport, which might sound useful in theory, but what if you happen to be an apprentice for a plumber or a sparky? What of the young parents with kids who may need to cart them around? If you're working at Tesco until midnight, how are you supposed to get home after the trains and buses stop?
By the time I was 18 I was independent from my parents and was already driving from Blackpool up and down the highways of the realm. I had a job and was "mature" enough to pay bills and upkeep on it even though it was crap.
How do you reconcile that to the removal of freedoms that would be considered normal elsewhere?
