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Makes me wonder what the cutoff age would be between being impressed with the achievement (at age 5) vs. being 'in trouble' with the police.
by 11thEarlOfMar 6y ago
Makes me wonder what the cutoff age would be between being impressed with the achievement (at age 5) vs. being 'in trouble' with the police.
- saagarjha 6y agoProbably 10-12 or so.
- kick 6y agoHow do you define 'in trouble'? An older-looking 14's the mark where I think you'd see actual repercussions, but I can't imagine people would be particularly-impressed if the boy was double his age (plenty of kids can drive at ten; plenty more kids can drive at ten as poorly as the adolescent in the article is described as doing). I think someone at the age of 13 could probably get this amount of press if they got caught in Utah or wherever coming from Georgia.
- vermilingua 6y agoThere is no adolescent in the article. Adolescence is ~12-18.
- kosievdmerwe 6y agoJust a small correction, 5 years old isn't adolescent. Adolescent is more or less a synonym for teenager. I was left a bit confused. Though this lead me to look up development stages which was interesting [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_the_human_body#/media/File%3AChild_development_stages.svg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_the_human_bod...
- kick 6y agoThanks!
- WalterBright 6y agoA 10 year old is perfectly capable of driving a car. The trouble is, they lack sufficient judgement to drive responsibly.
- kick 6y agoDepends on the 10 year old, I think. I'm not advocating for a lower driving age, but it seems like many of them would be better drivers than 16-18 year olds.
- FireBeyond 6y agoCertainly his parents are, or should be. "We didn't notice our kid, or car, were gone"?
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoThe article says the parents had noticed and had contacted the police.