This is a link to my article that I got this information from.

A 16-year-olds experience is different to an 18-year-olds experience. There is a two-year gap in between that, for kids to be observing other drivers that make mistakes, which then they can learn from them, even if he/she is not driving. They also become more familiar with the roads that they are used to traveling on, and they can notice more safe ways to get from one place to another. The two-year differential makes a big difference.

I believe that the driving age should be increased to the age of 18. This is because there have been increased amounts of crashes, most consisting of young drivers. “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. About a third of those deaths were the teen drivers themselves” According to —Representative John D'Amico Democrat, Illinois State Legislature