<p>How about the lack of driving experience? Is it still dangerous? After all, the insurance rate for teenagers is high likely because of their lack of experience.</p>
<p>Many years ago, a neighbor told us that her D said to her: “Why are you driving so slowly?” This happened only a couple of months after the D had got her driver’s license. She was a “fearless” driver; at one time, while we were driving on an expressway, she bypassed our car on our right side even though we were driving on the rightmost lane on the expressway. She likely thought we were driving too slowly as well. (But why did she choose to pass us on our right side where there is no lane!)</p>
<p>Every single day, driving in NYC, I see cars stopped at red lights that don’t go when the light turns green. And invariably the drivers are looking down, presumably at their phones.</p>
<p>Yes, that is one thing that could contribute to reckless driving. </p>
<p>Teenager rates aren’t higher because they solely lack experience…They’re more brash or more likely to make unwise decisions on the road. </p>
<p>Now, what your neighbor’s daughter pulled was incredibly foolish. Who in their right mind would pass someone on a expressway via the right side of the road? She wasn’t just a “fearless” drive; she was a “foolish” and “dangerous” driver. I hope that was a very short period of stupidity because her actions could lead her or someone in the hospital fast.</p>
<p>In Ca, you can be pulled over just for touching your phone. An officer rolled his window down awhile back and warned my Dh about this when he saw him do it. Same thing happened to my niece. Neither were actually using their phones, but the officers saw them in their hands.
I think this is a good thing. There are ways to set up your car to take and receive phone calls that are not illegal or unsafe, and if it’s that important to you to risk an accident, then it’s worth it to go to the expense to install bluetooth or whatever.</p>
<p>If a driver only texts when he is stopped at a red light, that would be a good thing, right?</p>
<p>My closest call in recent memory was when an aggressive driver cut in front of me and passed me at a left turn green arrow. I was totally distracted by him and was watching to see where he was going and wondering what he would do next and I drove right in front of another car in a parking lot, so me allowing myself to be distracted was nearly the cause of an accident, NOT the crazy driver who just cut me off.</p>
<p>I don’t have much confidence that these drivers don’t continue to try to handle their phones after the light turns green and they are reminded of that fact.</p>
<p>I have also observed plenty of drivers going 5 mph while they text. Not pretty in heavy Manhattan traffic!</p>
<p>Be glad you haven’t tailgated a personal injury lawyer looking for business. Or a van that changes lanes to reveal stopped traffic too close for you to stop before hitting it.</p>
<p>Traffic is traffic. Fortunately, I’m great with highway driving. Tailgating generally is necessary if you need someone to move out of the left lane. If they’re going too slow, they’ll get the picture if you come up on them. Unfortunately, if you’re not closer than you should be on the highway in the city I’m driving, you get constantly cut off. (Plus your commute would take a lot longer than necessary.) </p>
<p>Defensive may be the safest driving, but you must be aggressive so you’re not pushed all over the road.</p>