Driving Is Losing Its Allure for More Americans

Re:Driving Is Losing Its Allure for More Americans by rory096 on Sunday February 07, 2016 @04:53PM (#11055075)

Not to mention that states all over the country have been raising their driving ages, reducing the number of eligible drivers. Here in New York you can no longer get a license until you're 17 years old if you've taken driver's ed, else it's age 18. Not surprising, then, that the percentage of drivers under 17 has declined.

Article makes no mention of that fact and I wasn't able to locate the paper with a cursory look.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Driving Is Losing Its Allure for More Americans by syntheticnature on Sunday February 07, 2016 @06:34PM (#11055538)

As someone who grew up in NYS but hasn't lived there in a while, that's a huge change; it used to be there was a special driver's ed that would let you drive between 9pm-9am, or somesuch (assuming it was not to/from school or a job) when 17, but back when I went through that process you could get at least that partial license at 16.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Driving Is Losing Its Allure for More Americans by soylentcola on Sunday February 07, 2016 @06:51PM (#11055610)

For us it was the "provisional license" prior to 18.

That said, in my house it didn't matter. Dad was old school and according to him, me getting a license would make his car insurance go up (which I would have to cover) but I wouldn't be allowed to drive his car because he depended on it to get to work and couldn't risk his punk-ass son messing it up.

[ Parent | on HN ]