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Kids receiving nice cars as gifts from parents on their sixteenth birthday was a reliable crash predictor for my classmates growing up. The ones that worked har
by swader999 3y ago
Kids receiving nice cars as gifts from parents on their sixteenth birthday was a reliable crash predictor for my classmates growing up. The ones that worked hard to contribute to the cost and often bought second hand seemed to have a lot less accidents.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoThe kids driving a lease would not only total their cars routinely but get a new one immediately after. No consequences.
- analog31 3y agoMy mom taught high school. She noticed that the kids with cars also tended to have lower grades.
- rr808 3y agoI'd love to know if long term earnings are affected. I know a bunch of people who can't drive and it really seems to restrict what you can do in life.
- bossyTeacher 3y ago> I know a bunch of people who can't drive and it really seems to restrict what you can do in life I would imagine that you are a US citizen. Car dependency is more of an American problem imo. The fact that you depend (yes, dependency not power or freedom) on an expensive piece of metal to go anywhere is crazy. Imagine if medieval peasants had to have a horse to go anywhere from work to the food market
- rr808 3y agoI am both American and EU citizen. Yes US is more car dependent but its the same everywhere. My mother can't drive and lives rurally, she rarely gets to visit her relatives unless someone drives her. > Imagine if medieval peasants had to have a horse to go anywhere from work to the food market Not sure where you're going with this. 2 of my grandfathers were farmers and they had horses to work the farm and deliver goods.
- bossyTeacher 3y agoIf you live in a rural area, it's understandable but if you live in a city it's not great. Re: where I am going to this, I already stated my point. Dependency on your own piece of metal for transportation purposes is shocking. Ideally, driving would be a choice and you would always have public transportation as a backup. But if as a society, you reach a point where not owning a piece of metal restricts your activities in your area, it sounds like an awful issue with serious socioeconomic implications.
- Symbiote 3y agoIt's not necessary to drive at age 16 though, learning by the end of college should be more-or-less equivalent.
- bossyTeacher 3y agoIs this in US? Any thoughts on why is this the case?
- analog31 3y agoMy mom thought it was a distraction -- driving around as a social activity was a thing. Also, supporting a car meant getting a part time job, which took time and energy away from studying. It may depend on whether having a car is a means to an end, or an end unto itself. For instance, the college bound kids may have had aspirations other than having a car.
- gnicholas 3y agoJust my experience, but this was not at all what I saw growing up. It wasn’t even true among the kids with fancy/new cars where I went to school (public magnet school in CA). Were there some spoiled rich kids who didn’t work hard? Sure. But most of the wealthy kids were not slackers, and there wasn’t even a strong correlation.