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The answer to that is very simple. They don't have experience in it. It goes along with anything else in this world. The more you do something the better you get at it. A kid who hasn't driven on every surface doesn't know the little subtle things about each surface. Because driving on a gravel road is different then driving on pavement. Just like driving in the rain or snow is different than driving on a clear day. And being kids they won't know how to react to making mistakes the first few times they make them. So your going to have a lot more crashes than say someone who's had a licience for say ten, fifteen, or twenty years. Someone who's driven a while will know how to control a vehicle better if they hit that loose patch of gravel, or that spot of seemingly invisible ice. Not to mention tthe guy who just slammed on his brakes right in front of you who was just doing fifty five or the drunk driver who ran a red light while you had a green. And I don't know about everywhere else ,but the state of Ohio doesn't train kids to handle any of these variables. I don't know if they expect people to live in a utopian world or if they don't care ,but they just teach people the rules ,and then throw them out there to learn the techniqual stuff you can only learn from experiencing it on their own.
And I'm not like other people who might read this ,and say well gee maybe we should raise the age to drive to twenty one or so either because that isn't a solution. That would only mean we'd have twenty one, to twenty five year olds making these mistakes ,and the age group for accidents go up. You want to bring down accident numbers. Well the ones the people who can give out a licience can control anyway. Find a way to simulate all of these different variables that cause mistakes in driving ,and train kids how to handle their cars in these types of variables.
And I'm not like other people who might read this ,and say well gee maybe we should raise the age to drive to twenty one or so either because that isn't a solution. That would only mean we'd have twenty one, to twenty five year olds making these mistakes ,and the age group for accidents go up. You want to bring down accident numbers. Well the ones the people who can give out a licience can control anyway. Find a way to simulate all of these different variables that cause mistakes in driving ,and train kids how to handle their cars in these types of variables.