25 is the ideal age for driving?

WITH the figures showing that young motorists and motorcyclists are more vulnerable to crashes and it is their immaturity that contributes to their rash and reckless behaviour on the road, yesterday’s New Sunday Times once again posed the question whether 16 is too soon to ride a motorbike and 17 too early to drive a car. The short answer from brain scientists would be that 25 is the ideal age, because that’s when that part of the frontal lobe that weighs risks, makes judgments and controls impulsive behaviour becomes fully developed.

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