Jak’s Life 2.0

I am a 16 year old kid who has his license and drives quite often. I have held my license for nearly 5 months which allows me to drive immediate family members only. Now comes the part where I question the passenger restriction law, I realize that I am not able to drive anyone except immediate family members unless accompanied by and adult over the age of 20 that has held his/her license for 4 or more contiguous years. Although this law is very hard to follow I succeed in following it although it is one of the hardest things I have to do especially when you’re the last one leaving practice and there is still 1 person there who doesn’t have a ride, it’s so hard to drive by with an empty car and not offer them a ride home. This makes me question is it so unsafe to have just one passenger? Must the law eliminate ALL passengers? Why can’t it just limit the number of passengers for 4-6 months and yes I do believe it’s necessary to wait AT LEAST 4 months before drivers can drive passengers, it does take time to get used to driving. But why can’t the state allow you to phase in having passengers, maybe allow one passenger after 5 months, and maybe 2-3 after 6. Then after maybe 6.5 or 7 allow drivers to carry full carloads whatever that may be 5 or 7 people. I realize that this will probably never happen and yes I do agree with the law but I believe it should not be as strict but this post allowed me to get those thoughts out of my head and open to the world. Thanks for reading ~JAK