According to a AAA poll, 94% of teen drivers acknowledge the dangers of texting and driving, but 35% admitted to doing it anyway. and that shows that kids are at risk driving in a car

I say that the driving age for people should change to 18, because they have a higher crash rate.16-year- old's have higher crash rates than drivers of any other age. Statistics show that 16 and 17-year-old driver death rates increase with each additional passenger. Also more than 40% of teen auto deaths occur between the hours of 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. Imagine letting your child go out somewhere at night with 40% higher chance of getting in a accident.

Secondly, they have the age raised for other things. All 50 states don't allow 16-year-old's to drink alcohol, buy cigarettes, and purchase handguns. Yet somehow most states are willing to put them in charge of a car, which could be a deadly weapon. According to scholastic “Between 1995 and 2004, there were 30,917 fatalities in accidents that involved 15-to-17-year-old drivers, according to a study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety”