Can young people be 'good' drivers?

[LanSite]

Originally posted by re·ac·tion·ary
Cars are dangerous. They kill people and these kids don't take their driving privilages serious enough.

ditto ditto and ditto again

I'm sorry for your accident, but glad you're in a position to talk about it

[jgo]

i can get my provisional license at 17 and my full license at 18. being 16 i don't care for driving - if i wanna go somewhere i walk, bike, or bus there. i know a lot of people my age that shouldn't be aloud any where near the roads.

(what us scottish people call neds). there is a whole culture here in scotland, obsesed with buying crappy cars, putting a sticker on it, tinting the windows and thinking they can take on montoya.

i can't afford to buy and run a car, especially the insurance, but i don't want to. i'm spending all my money on software, or a digital camera. they seem pretty safe.

the thing is, although we can say certain people (teens, women, elderly) are more likely to be involved in accidents i don't think we should be judging drivers solely on their demographic group.

there was a big fuss in the site check board because of people bragging about their age, everyone said age doesn't matter and ability does. some teenagers/women/old people can drive well, but the newspapers and statisticians [spelling?] don't tell us about them.

even then, everyone makes mistakes, barichello shunted raichenan [spelling?] in monaco last weekend - anyone going to say he is a bad driver?