Should driving for minors be more strict?

oh yes:

I think a strict policy nationwide should be in place to protect the teens and those around them on the streets.

After looking up U.S. licensing laws on Wikipedia... YES!!!!!!!1111!!!!!

In most states you get your license and bang, you can drive. Your only restrictions are passenger age/numbers, and a curfew. The U.S. department of motor vehicles needs to be charged with assisted vehicular homicide.

Not in Sweden... you can't imagine how many hoops you have to overcome to be allowed to drive here >.>

I'm not sure how the situation is in the States but I bet it's a lot more relaxed. But I do think the strictness should depend on how many cars there are in the State/Country and how difficult the driving conditions are.

In places where there are very few cars and large distances between houses and people I can accept a more relaxed system.

I would say, generally yes. There are minors who do use their driving privileges responsibly, but there are of course those who drive recklessly and are literally handed cars by their parents.

Nonetheless raising the driving age won't do too much, it's experience that makes a better driver - not always age.

I think the process takes too long. Where I live, you have to pass a written test and then drive with a Learner's License for a year (or 9 months if you take a special course), take a road test for a Novice License at the end of that, and then drive another year with that license, and take another test before you get your full Class 5 License.

While practicing with the Learner's License, you can only drive with a licensed person over 25 in the front seat, and one other passenger, or four family members (with a licensed person over 25 in the passenger seat), only before midnight, and with no alcohol in your system whatsoever. When you get your novice license, you can now drive alone, and with unlimited family members, but only one non-related passenger if they're under 25 years old and without a license. You have to drive a full year with this license before you get a Class 5, and there are no restrictions on passengers or hours of operation; only the legal .08 blood/alcohol level.

If you ask me, the time frame for getting your full license is too long, and the restrictions are too many. It does not take a full year of driving with an instructor to be prepared for your drivers' test: six months at most. Then when you get your Novice License, you're restricted to driving one friend around legally. What this results in is more vehicles on the road (because if you're going somewhere with three friends, you have to take two cars instead of one), which increases carbon emissions, and the risk for low speed collisions. The other thing it might result in is a dependence on public transportation, or getting someone else to do the driving. The problem with the latter is that these newly licensed kids can't practice their driving legally, and when they finally get behind the wheel again, they're just not as experienced as they could be.

Absolutely.

I can't stand these stupid kids that think nothing could ever happen to them.

The news in Miami is the same every day:

Drug bust, Armed Robbery, and Stupid kid dies in a car accident.

I don't know how it works in the U.S., but in Canada once you get your license you can't drive for a year without a 25+ licensed driver in the passenger seat.Tylendal

In Alberta, when you have your learner's license, I think it's with an 18 year old or older who has their full license, not just their probationary. Unless I'm wrong; if so, I've been illegally driving with my sister's boyfriend!:o