my points:
1. vague statistics. unsufficent info on the original status of teenage drivers involved in accidents. The number of earlier years might be extremly small like 2, thus making the apparant shocking increase of 200% not that significant.
2. Non-causal relationship. No evidence to show that the increased number of teenager drivers involved in accidents are responsible for the accidents. Equally possible that they are obeying the rules perfectly and were involved in accidents due to the misconduct of careless adult drivers.
3. Even if the analysis is true, a required driver's education course is not necessary and sufficient to solve the problem as the accidents are very possible caused by carelessness or even purposely misdeed rather than lack of driving skills. Similarly, the purchase of 10 new cars for teenagers practising on-road driving would not eleminate the real cause of accidents. |