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Originally Posted by BonzoHansen
The reduced traffic argument is weak IMO. It is just as easy to screw up at night because of the reduced traffic, it's just different screwing up. I did my best speeding at night when I was young, no doubt. How many of the way cool street racers that post up do their racing at 3pm vs late night in the dark? I also think a good deal of the late night thing is related to drowsy driving.
IMO it’s all back to the lack of experience thing. A lot of kids don't realize what too tired to drive is until they get older; they underestimate what can happen on the roads that is out of their control, and dark & tired & faster make it all happen a lot faster; they may still over estimate their abilities; whatever the reason it is what it is. I don’t have the data but I bet the accidents per mile for young drivers are even higher than daytime rates.
I still think stickers are dumb, but the laws are not. Probationary drivers can argue until they are blue in the face, stomp their feet, yell it's unfair, but the statistics bear out young drivers get in a lot more accidents per mile. Maybe not ‘you’ (whoever associates with that), but the group in general. Go blame the last 30+ years of 16-20 year olds for ****ing up too much. I helped you with that, I got 3 tickets in my 1st year, and my car got wrecked too, but that was 100% the fault of the other (17 year old) driver - I wonder if that was one or two accidents in the stats, lol. Then there is the **** where I did not get cuahgt or got lucky nothing happened. Like that o-turn I did that one night… So you're welcome. 
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I still won't admit I am not the best driver in the world. Drives my rents nuts.
But, I did survive the most dangerous part of a young adults life according to insurance company's.
