Why are teenagers so stupid when it comes to driving?

most of the stories you read on mydeathspace.com...
are like either guys or gals drunk driving..
or like bunch of cheerleaders acting crazy in a car
before they crash and all died .. and i feel bad for the people who died because of riding with that one teenager who acted stupid while driving.

and yet, after all the news/warning/stories.. it still continues to happen in America everyday.

im not by far an old driver.. im only 23, but i have been driving since 18 and everyday i drive an average 4 hrs locally and highway. and i have avoided a lot of potential accidents on local and highway because other drivers are being stupid.

I don't think its only teenagers. I've seen older ppl be as ignorant as the next teenager.

What Pisses me off the most is ppl passing on the right lane.

Desensitization is part of the reason kids are crazy while driving. We can pummel them with statistics and gross videos, but the fact is that we don't see many brutal accidents with our own eyes. We don't see the brutal aftermaths either.

Think of it this way -- if we walked out the door and everyday we saw a gruesome car accident (blood, body parts flying, screaming, death), we would change our habits instantly.

The prevailing feeling among teenagers and other crazy drivers is this -- it won't happen to me.

Hope that helped!

Its because your amygdala (a part of your brain which is concerned with judgement) isn't fully developed until you are an adult.
Its also due to inexperience, they may not have had proper teaching to drive.
A main part of it is influences - friends and parents. If they do stupid things or don't teach you right then you are more likely to make dumb choices.
Not to mention technology, I mean texting while driving! (And vanity, like applying makeup while driving - Britney Spears - and then crashing...)

I would say that they act stupidly because they don't have enough experience to know what kind of things a person can do while driving and still get away with it - and they're pushing to see how far they can go - sometimes with fatal results.

I'm sure 99% of drivers have done stupid stuff behind the wheel but most have lived to tell about it.

on a larger scale i blame cell phones and music (not to mention stupidity)... oh! and parents (MORONS, irresponsible!!!) however, teenagers both don't have the experience and have the invincibility complex. nothing bad could possibly happen to them, right!? i got my license when i was 16, and even then i knew that was a bad idea (i may have been a minority).

Teenagers feel like it will never happen to them. They are smarter than all those boring old adults out there, who just want to squelch all their fun. There is evidence that the frontal lobe in their brain is not quite fully developed, and some common sense just isn't present in all their decisons, and then you add alcohol and the situation just gets worse.

Most teenagers these days are very immature. A 20 year old has the maturity of a 14 year old twenty years ago. They should not be alowed to drive until they are 21. They think driving is a computer race.

Their brains aren't fully developed in the area related to judgement, which is even more impaired by alcohol.

It's not just about driving, they're stupid about everything.

teenagers need to stay off the road. They get in too many accidents. No experience wait till you're 23 and drive.

TESTOSTERONE!! Young teens boys try to impress young teen girls. Always have, always will. Those of us who are lucky, live to tell about it.

They are spoilt and so irresponsible.children

inexperience + immaturity

nerd

Teenagers (for the most part) have not matured to the point of understanding responsibility, that part of the brain just does not mature until you are in your 20's. 70% of the teen drivers that die here in Virginia were not wearing their seatbelts.

Three seconds of time could have saved many of those lives, some because of speed, alcohol or the other driver would not have survived even if they had been wearing a seat belt. If you cut off a tractor trailer and he runs over your car, it really doesn't matter what you were doing or wearing. That is were the experience comes in and a willingness to change your behavior and learn from other people's mistakes before you become the example that other people learn from.