Study: Fewer Teens Driving, Little Impact on Safety
Today's teenagers are choosing to delay a traditional teenage rite of passage: getting their driver's licenses. According to a recent study conducted by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, the percentage of 16-year-olds having a driver's license decreased from 46% in 1983 to 31% in 2008. The decline of teen driving is not just a trend among younger teens; older teens are driving less. The number of 18-year-olds with licenses dropped from 80 percent in 1983 to 65 percent in 2008. There is a similar trend among 17-year-olds: the number of driver's licenses in that age group dropped from 69 to…
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