For as long as I have been publishing this blog, I have relayed what I have learned from experts about how the human brain’s judgment and restraint functions are not fully developed until we reach age 22 to 25, and that parents of teen drivers need to factor this fact — which they cannot change with training or good intentions — into their daily decisions about when, where, and how their teens are going to drive.
The article linked below, from the New Yorker magazine, thoroughly and clearly discusses this important topic and describes a new book on the subject, one that appears to second the perspective that I have been passing along. Thanks to Sara Pierce for forwarding the article:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/31/the-terrible-teens
