In this video, Nathan Wallis explores how brain development influences the way young people make decisions behind the wheel. He explains how the prefrontal cortex, responsible for planning and decision-making, and the limbic system, which drives emotions and risk-taking, develop at different rates and how this can affect driving behaviour.
The video also outlines when the brain typically reaches full development, and highlights statistics showing that young people are overrepresented in death, serious injury crashes, and traffic offending.