TroyHayden's Blog

I think it is a good law. The 16 year olds today seem a lot less mature than they did 35 years ago when I was their age.

Its bad for teen carf pooling to school as they can only have 1 teen passenger, and it crunches the efforts to get the voting age changed to when a person gets their DL, as in political science, its further restrictions hinder those efforts. If you can charge them as adults, they need to have more rights in return.

If I was still a teen I would do that just for spite....LOL!!!!

This should of been on the ballot, and the people of Arizona should have been able to vote for such a law! If you are 18 you are still Mama and Daddy little little girl or boy!
But you can join the military or go to college, and wait and wait, and wait, and wait, until one day you get to actually vote for some of these 3am Johnny isn't home yet legislative quagmires. 18.5 who is know, without "profiling" latenight drivers who look to be 18 years of age with someone who appears to be 18.5 or younger in the passenger seat!

So mom gets pulled over, and after getting a ticket for her failure to produce her insurance card. The officer who didn't "profile" her and pulled her over for whatever reasons he can think of, moves on and mom was better off not even picking up her child!

Here come the lawsuits. I was profiled, I'm actually 19.5 I have the "PAPERS" to prove it!

and yes, I am a Naturalized Citizen of the United States!

Ooooowheee I can't wait to spend more taxpayer money on that Sherrif Joe lawsuit that is awaiting to happen.

Stupid motorist law! Just don't give out a drivers license until you are 21, and raise the Military Service to 18.5 and not a day sooner or later!

I think the worse distraction that there is are cell phones - at any age. All we do is pass law after law after law. I am so sick of laws. You can't pass a law that gives people common sense unfortunately. You just live and you learn.

I think it'a a great law! 1 - Keeps teens safe from the 21+ drunk drivers who are coming home during that time & 2 - keeps them out of trouble because they should be home anyway and not running the streets all night because their parents have no control over them!!

It really just seems to me that we let them pass more and more laws designed to encroach upon private space we pay for out of our pockets like our cars and homes. If they want full reign over my stuff then they need to buy my dang car.

Rygg,

I get your point. But having a driver's license is a privalege not a right.

I think the state telling a 16 year old they can only drive at certain times and with certain people for 6 months is reasonable.

and msinfo, I bet they get a pass for midnight mass on x-mas eve.

This law is nothing but a touchy feel good law. It will do nothing to prevent the kind of deaths of students that inspired this law.
Laws like this are passed mainly on emotion. The parent that pushed this law felt a desire to correct a problem that does not exist. Their child made a bad decision. No law is going to stop children from doing this.

California's cell phone law just went into effect July 1. If you're under 18, you cannot use any type of communication device AT ALL while driving. The laws are great, but let's just add them to the very long list of laws that aren't currently being enforced. Teens need to realize this is for their own good, but won't. If I stayed out past curfew when I was a teen, my car keys were pulled 'til I got it. Where are parents these days ??