May 3, 2007

MAKE THAT 25 TO 65:

Immature brains 'make teenagers bad drivers' (RAY MASSEY, 3rd May 2007, Daily Mail)

Youngsters are more dangerous on the roads because their brains are not sufficiently developed, according to researchers.

They said the frontal lobe of the brain - which controls emotion, risk-taking and decision-making - does not fully mature until the age of 25.

As a result, teenagers are more impulsive, excitable and prone to taking risks and causing accidents.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 3, 2007 7:24 AM
Comments

Any car insurance company would have told you this. There's a reason they lower their premiums when a man has his 25th birthday.

Posted by: Chris Durnell at May 3, 2007 10:20 AM

It is striking how the assault on the right to drive apes the assualt on the right to keep and bear arms.

A common gun-grabber ploy is to whittle away at the gun-rights base by effectively awarding dishonorable discharges from the militia for increasingly petty faults, or, currently, medical discharges for minor eccentricities.

In like manor, the Ritter are to be depopulated into insignificance by slicing off the drivers of older and less expensive vehicles, the less wealthy, nexty the elderly, then the young, until all that remain are will look about them, Bonhoffer-like, and see no one to stand with them in resistance.

Posted by: Lou Gots at May 3, 2007 10:30 AM

We codgers can drive circles around you whippersnappers with our eyes closed, and sometimes do.

Posted by: ed at May 3, 2007 12:29 PM

Lou:

So you'd support gun licensing?

Posted by: oj at May 3, 2007 1:01 PM

ed, totally right!

Posted by: erp [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 3, 2007 6:24 PM

If they can fight for us and vote, they should be able to drive and drink ... but not simultaneously.

That said, I feel they generally mature to humaneness by twenty one and maturity at twenty five, or at least they used to, and at least some do.

Posted by: Grumpy Grandfather at May 4, 2007 10:11 AM

We send them to fight because they're expendable. The victims of their driving aren't.

Posted by: oj at May 4, 2007 2:39 PM
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