Originally posted by Takumi Fujiwara
Yes, exactly. It's not the age. If the limit was 25, then we'd have 25 year olds being just as bad as 16 year olds are today. A 20 year old isn't better because he's four years older than a 16 year old, it's because he has four years of driving to the 16 year old's few months.
And for many people, including myself, not driving is not an inconvienence, it makes things impossible. I live in the Hollywood Hills. Downtown burbank, where I'll be working, is a 10 minute drive away. But to use the mass transit system would require first a 20 minute walk to the closest bus station, and then a 2-3 HOUR bus ride. I have taken this route, I am not kidding or exagerating. It makes the possibility of working utterly rediculous, because transit time is longer than time spent at work. Without a license, I would be sitting at home all day, doing nothing.
And how about school? My school was even worse. Number one, when I was in school, taking the school bus would have meant driving with heavy, LA, rush hour traffic, in the opposite direction from school to get to the bus stop, than enduring a long (an hour or more) bus ride. I would have had to leave the house at 5AM to be at school on time.