Some of the biggest issues and challenges teenage drivers face include factors such as distractions from technology, friends influencing others to drive unsafely, and don’t fully understand the concepts of safe driving since the majority of them haven’t yet experienced a responsibility as large as this until now. Modern day technology is a very major reason for issues that cause teenagers to end up being distracted making them crash. Part of the reason for this is that even though they don’t have their eyes on the road they feel overconfident in their ability to quickly scroll to whatever they think is more important than having full control over where their car is going. These actions of course have been causing many more accidents every year placing more and more people who become addicted to their tech at risk for crashing since they think whatever is on their phone is more important than the safety of not only them but also more importantly those around them. To mitigate this kind of addiction away from the steering wheel I would recommend having definite A to B routes planned out before getting into the car so you don’t begin wanting to look at your phone to text someone where you should be going. Also, drivers should consider getting a phone-holder that attaches to either vents or the dashboard, that way if they do decide they look at their phone their head is still closer to looking at the road rather than closer to their lap. Finally, if it is a longer car ride and a teenager wants to play some sort of music or feels they can’t focus without some social aspect in the car, they should consider bringing along family or friends to not only pass the time by but also keep them safe by responding to texts and playing the next hip song for them while they go along.

However, the wrong group could persuade a person to do irresponsible actions that have consequences which can destroy a teenaged driver's life if they aren’t careful enough to follow the rules correctly. Although the law can sometimes be cruel to those who make mistakes, it is swift to incarcerate you if you aren’t careful enough to at least follow the basic driving rules and instead follow your friends to “drive you off a cliff”. I have a close relative of mine who once was one of these influences on the fourth of July since he was at a party and needed to get home sooner than what was possible he and a friend began hitting the accelerator so fast to the point where they got arrested by a officer and family friend after speeding away from a group of cops trying to lose them on the highway. These types and other types of influence can cause multiple accidents if a person is not around the right and responsible people who are willing to make a person's driving experience safer rather than more dangerous and drive those who are thankful for their help.

One final issue that I’ll mention is that the majority of teenagers who first get their license and more importantly first car they have never had a responsibility even close to this, unless you consider staying alive a responsibility where for most families fall on the parents shoulders for getting the essentials. For the majority of teenagers who are driving they more than likely have two major responsibilities which are graduating from school and more than likely a job in which they have not had ownership of a physical item that measures up to the responsibility of having a vehicle which is the reason why I think teenagers have the hardest time keeping care of their car and more importantly keeping those around them safe. Although there are now many of their party drivers ed courses, school has thrown away the importance of teaching young drivers the basic responsibilities, expenses, and most importantly consequences of owning and driving a vehicle which really explains why there are the most crashes from teenage drivers. This is due to the fact that if the school system doesn’t take time to teach the importance of driving to students they are more than likely not going to listen to their parents about it since school is their only considered time to actually learn things and as a result after they pass their drivers test drive recklessly and cause accidents later on realizing the consequences. In order to fix this issue either the parent has to give the teenager much more responsibility and determination to drive like a responsible adult or the education system has to push out the importance of safe driving and driving laws through mandatory scheduled classes where all high school students learn the importance of safe versus dangerous driving so they keep themselves and others safe on the road.

In conclusion when it comes to safer driving for teenagers a person should put into consideration that most are easily distracted by their phones, some have stupid friends that will land them in stupid places and give them stupid but lawful consequences, and that a teenager hasn’t had this type of responsibility before. The only way we as a society can combat this is to give them resources to hold that technology or mitigate it, make sure they surround themselves with the correct individuals and if not mitigate their influence on them, and finally give them a fighting chance to be prepared for this daunting responsibility. With these factors in place a teenager has no choice but to drive more carefully, but remember anything can happen on the road it’s just up to us to lessen that possibility.