#task2
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?
According to some people, raising the legal age at which people become eligible to start driving is the most effective way to make roads safer. While this viewpoint makes sense on some grounds, I personally take issue with it.
On the one hand, the idea to increase the driving age may work. In most countries, people can acquire a driver’s license when they reach 18, which might be considered too early. This is because youngsters at this age are usually not mature enough to understand the consequences of their actions. This immaturity leads to irresponsible behavior while driving which, in most cases, ends with accidents. This argument is compounded by the fact that people, as young as 18, tend to act impulsively by breaking the speed limit or violating traffic rules and the consequences of such actions are obvious. From this perspective, changing the legal age for driving a car or a motorbike can be a sensible course of action.
However, to me, the given solution to improving safety on roads is likely to have a limited effect. For a start, age is not the sole factor causing road accidents. There is no doubt that drivers of all ages are involved in car accidents not just young ones. This goes to show that factors such as experience, behavior on the wheel and adherence to traffic rules also play a big role. In addition, what matters more than the age of a driver is their experience. Usually, major contributing factor to road collisions is inexperience. An illustration of this is that even people who have had long experience of driving sometimes get involved in crashes due to fatigue, distractions or overconfidence. Therefore, if people start driving at an earlier age, and accumulate experience, this, in fact, can increase road safety.
In conclusion, allowing people to drive a car or a motorbike at a later age could somehow improve road safety. Nevertheless, I am convinced that it is unlikely to have a large scale impact as there are many more causes of poor safety on roads.