Would you let your 16-year old drive 100 miles away and stay out till past 3AM?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Well no, because that would be illegal...

[Torie]

Well no, because that would be illegal...

Assuming your comment was animated by the hour mentioned (3 am) that assumes there is a curfew law in the locality, and that the teen is out and about, as opposed to engaging in indoor sports, or whatever. I certainly was not prowling the streets at 3 am at 16. Why would I want to do that?

So you might want to revise and extend your remarks.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Well no, because that would be illegal...

That assumes there is a curfew law in the locality, and that the teen is out and about, as opposed to engaging in indoor sports, or whatever.

So you might want to revise and extend your remarks.

Same problem though. Driving age is 17 here. But, yeah, that were a cop-out answer. The real answer is still "no". Wouldn't buy a car for a teenager. Ever. No blood on my hands (ideally).

[Torie]

Well no, because that would be illegal...

That assumes there is a curfew law in the locality, and that the teen is out and about, as opposed to engaging in indoor sports, or whatever.

So you might want to revise and extend your remarks.

Same problem though. Driving age is 17 here. But, yeah, that were a cop-out answer. The real answer is still "no". Wouldn't buy a car for a teenager. Ever. No blood on my hands (ideally).

That sounds a bit like a rather Draconian risk averse regime that you have in your mind's eye for your issue.  Be a Baysian; look at the odds. The odds are our friends.

Of course, you need to "know" your issue, to make a reasoned judgment.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Well no, because that would be illegal...

That assumes there is a curfew law in the locality, and that the teen is out and about, as opposed to engaging in indoor sports, or whatever.

So you might want to revise and extend your remarks.

Same problem though. Driving age is 17 here. But, yeah, that were a cop-out answer. The real answer is still "no". Wouldn't buy a car for a teenager. Ever. No blood on my hands (ideally).

That sounds a bit like a rather Draconian risk averse regime that you have in your mind's eye for your issue.  Be a Baysian; look at the odds. The odds are our friends.

Of course, you need to "know" your issue, to make a reasoned judgment.

It would also involve spend a lot of money

[Matt Damon™]

I don't plan to have kids and I'd live in a nicer part of a city and not in a suburb so there'd be no need to own a car so it's entirely moot.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

No. Thats too far and too late.

[opebo]

You know, this reminds me of my 'first date' - a friend's girlfriend had fixed me up with a cousin of hers from way over in Illinois..  I was really shocked at how difficult it was to persuade my parents that I should motor over there (even in the company of said friends).  Pretty silly considering I always got straight As, was the smartest kid in my school (and probably the county), never drank, was an enormous nerd, and had a perfectly reliable and massively safe hand-me-down Cadillac to drive.  It wasn't even a car they ever drove anymore.

Anyway in the end I was allowed to go and got some 'first kissing' in, and I remember finding the girl's mouth/lips so odd.. much more circular and sphincter-like than I had expected. 

[Jake]

Depends on the kid obviously. My parents just let my 17 year old sister drive over 200 miles in the rain at night in their new car to visit my sister and I. They certainly wouldn't have allowed my older sister to do that as she isn't responsible.

I'm more concerned about not having kids than planning on what to do with them o/c.

[Marokai Backbeat]

I'm stunned at the number of people saying Yes.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I'm stunned at the number of people saying Yes.

Indeed, it needs to be smaller.

My parents did, so what's the problem?

[Matt Damon™]

You're proof of why it doesn't work out.

[Lief 🗽]

Depends on whether or not I trust them.

[Stranger in a strange land]

sure, my parents would let me stay out past 3 AM when I was 17 and 18, though I never went more than 20 miles from my house (and never had any thought of doing so)

[MaxQue]

Depends on whether or not I trust them.