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Which makes sense too in many ways. The only people who've had to bet their money on making a decision on what age to consider people as adults at, is the renta

Which makes sense too in many ways. The only people who've had to bet their money on making a decision on what age to consider people as adults at, is the rental car industry. Incidentally they came up with the 25 number too, I guess purely actuarially.

hpen 7y ago
This is no longer the case. At least in Tennessee.
- Godel_unicode 7y ago
  That's not true. See below for the under age surcharge for Budget in Tennessee and Enterprise everywhere: https://www.budget.com/budgetWeb/html/en/common/agePopUp.html#TN https://www.budget.com/budgetWeb/html/en/common/agePopUp.htm... https://www.enterprise.com/en/help/faqs/car-rental-under-25.html https://www.enterprise.com/en/help/faqs/car-rental-under-25....
  - hpen 7y ago
    How am I wrong? The link you posted states "The minimum age to rent a vehicle is 21 years of age." Sure there's a $20 a day extra fee, but that's negligible in comparison to the inconvenience of not being able to rent the car. The sentiment of my comment was that you don't have to be 25 to rent a car.
    - ramraj07 7y ago
      Of course no place bans renting cars for folks under 25, but the point is they don't consider you a regular adult at that point, more like a risky adolescent.
      - hpen 7y ago
        Not true. In the past several car rentals didn't rent to under 25 year olds. Period.
    - Godel_unicode 7y ago
      You replied to a comment stating that rental car companies picked 25 as the age below which people don't always act like adults actuarially speaking. That bet is a literal charge in this case, weighing loss of business from higher prices against increased risk of loss from un-adult behavior. You said that is not true in Tennessee and, as I explained, you are wrong about that. While I'm sure you knew what you meant, given your lack of explanation it is assumed you were directly replying to the central tenet of the previous comment (i.e. that persons under 25 are less adulty and should be treated as such).
      - hpen 7y ago
        You're right. "ramraj07" was arguing that the rental companies view under 25 year olds as less mature, not that rental companies won't do business with them. That's where I went wrong.
dragonwriter 7y ago
> The only people who've had to bet their money on making a decision on what age to consider people as adults at, is the rental car industry. They aren't the only one, and they probably did what they did by doing a blunt approximation of what the auto insurance industry came up with regarding age.

hpen 7y ago

This is no longer the case. At least in Tennessee.

Godel_unicode 7y ago
That's not true. See below for the under age surcharge for Budget in Tennessee and Enterprise everywhere: https://www.budget.com/budgetWeb/html/en/common/agePopUp.html#TN https://www.budget.com/budgetWeb/html/en/common/agePopUp.htm... https://www.enterprise.com/en/help/faqs/car-rental-under-25.html https://www.enterprise.com/en/help/faqs/car-rental-under-25....
- hpen 7y ago
  How am I wrong? The link you posted states "The minimum age to rent a vehicle is 21 years of age." Sure there's a $20 a day extra fee, but that's negligible in comparison to the inconvenience of not being able to rent the car. The sentiment of my comment was that you don't have to be 25 to rent a car.
  - ramraj07 7y ago
    Of course no place bans renting cars for folks under 25, but the point is they don't consider you a regular adult at that point, more like a risky adolescent.
    - hpen 7y ago
      Not true. In the past several car rentals didn't rent to under 25 year olds. Period.
  - Godel_unicode 7y ago
    You replied to a comment stating that rental car companies picked 25 as the age below which people don't always act like adults actuarially speaking. That bet is a literal charge in this case, weighing loss of business from higher prices against increased risk of loss from un-adult behavior. You said that is not true in Tennessee and, as I explained, you are wrong about that. While I'm sure you knew what you meant, given your lack of explanation it is assumed you were directly replying to the central tenet of the previous comment (i.e. that persons under 25 are less adulty and should be treated as such).
    - hpen 7y ago
      You're right. "ramraj07" was arguing that the rental companies view under 25 year olds as less mature, not that rental companies won't do business with them. That's where I went wrong.

dragonwriter 7y ago

> The only people who've had to bet their money on making a decision on what age to consider people as adults at, is the rental car industry. They aren't the only one, and they probably did what they did by doing a blunt approximation of what the auto insurance industry came up with regarding age.