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info @ Apr 10th 2008 11:59AM
I don't know what happened to my other post.
Where did I say anything about not being willing to pay for it? I have a German driver license which currently costs about €2,000 ($3,000) to make. Yes it's a ton of money, but you learn more than just how to parallel park.
Your remark regarding living in a democracy and people wanting their kids to drive at 16 is a totally invalid argument. There are a lot of things that people want, yet cannot because they are illegal. If the driving age were to be raised to 18, there wouldn't be any great uproar just as there wasn't when the drinking age was raised to 21. The fact remains that the teenage driving problem is increased by having uneducated 16 and 17 year old drivers operating vehicles that they are too immature to do so. The two easily available measures to lessen accidents and fatalities is by better education, meaning real driver training, and raising the age at which one is allowed to drive. There is a reason why the traffic fatalities per 100,000 miles driven are substantially higher in the US than in Germany where over 50% of the Autobahn is without speed limits.