15 too young to drive, says brain expert

[sAsLEX]

Raising the driving age delays the onset of this stage to a point where they are more mature.

Mate looking at the current crop of teenagers/early twenties alot of them much older than 15 aint in any sense of the word mature!

[Lou Girardin]

Not entirely true. They pay their taxes and rates and yet any sort of public transport system is confined to the cities. This forces them to use their own sort of transport. You used to be able to leave school at 15 so therefore it made sense for, a rural kid to be able to hold some sort of regular employment, they should be allowed to either drive or have public transport available like the town kids. We all know what NZ public transport system is like so they drive. The school leaving age is now 16.

Is it any better in any other counties rural areas? Aust for example?

[Meekey_Mouse]

What really pisses me off with this is they think teens can't drive cars at 15... yet they wanted to change the legal age for sex to 12!!! WHAT IS WITH THAT!!!

I think when it comes to driving it isn't the age that is a major factor but the brain. I know some 25 yr olds that I wouldn't like to see behind the wheel, but I know alot of mature, responsible 14/15 and 16 yr olds that would make better decisions then the 25 yr old. Just the same though I know alot of 15 yr olds that are complete morons who if I knew they were driving and I knew were they were driving too... I would try take a different route to them. So Why punish the responsible 15 yr olds for the idiots mistakes?