When we drive a car or any other vehicle for that matter, we rely on our skill. We shed our responsibility and allow skill to take over. Motoring or driving as we may call, today there are more motors on the road than people walking. It is felt that the roads were made for cars, rather than for pedestrians.
Countries outside India, or to be more apt, the western countries allow their kids to drive after they complete 16 years. It is legal for them. But here we wait 2 more years to teach them driving. Countries like South Africa follow our method of qualification and allow any individual to drive their vehicles above 18 years. What does this mean and why is it so?
Does it mean that our children are not yet prepared, are they lesser? If that is not the case then we must allow them to drive. Driving is not a skill that takes years of practice, it can be learnt in a meagrely short period of time. One thing it will do is that it will dent their dad's pocket and create more traffics for us making it lesser and lesser viable for us to walk freely on the road. When we say kids are smarter than us, why not give them a chance, something they will truly cherish.
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