Should 16-year olds drive?

The article "Should 16-year olds drive?" by Ted Gregory is about people deciding if the age for driving be raised because they feel that being 16 is to young and most teenagers are not responsible.
  In the article it says it's a question that could reverberate across the country, wherever a new teen driver is turning a key in an ignition. Is 16 the right age to get a driver's license. Some people feel that it shouldn't matter about the age as long as they have a driving experience. "I don't think it matters what age you are," said Hinsdale Central High School sophomore, "as long as you have the practice and experience." But there are also people tha feel age should matter and 16 is to young to be behind the wheel. "We're still losing a lot of teens on tghe road each year," Lund said. Motor vehicle crashes kill more than 5,000 teenagers every year.
  Lund feels that the minimum age shpuld being raised higher than 16. "This is kind of the next logical step," he said of the insurance institute's push to raise the minimum age. "Do these teen need to be driving as early as we are allowin gthem to drive?" New Jersey is the only state with a minimum driver's license age of 17. Reports cited a study from 1992-96 in which the rate of crash-related deaths among 16- and 17-year-olds was 18 per 100,000 in New Jersey. They compared that with 26 per 100,000 in Connectinut, which had a minimum driver's license age of 16 and 4 months.
   Ken Biggs, chairman of the driver's education department at Schaumburg High School said, "Idealistically, I think it'd be great" to raise the minimum age. "But practically? No. There's no mass transit to get to work, to get to jobs."  Meaning that he feels that the age to drive should be raised higher but at the same time it shouldn't because around the age of 16 most teen start working and they need transportation to get back and fourth to jobs.

I feel that 16 is a good age to drive, but they should only be able to drive if they had a driving experience. Most teens feel excited when they first get behind the wheel of ther own car. Which makes it kind of dangerous for them to drive. But then again some teens are more responsible than others. Teenagers now a days like to drink and drive which also makes it more dangerous for them to drive, because that's putting pedestrians in danger of walking.
 Teenagers now a days are not as responsible as they should be. Having a driving experience would lower the cause of wreckless driving.