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[quote=Anonymous]Cars are expensive, driving can be dangerous. If you grow up in a city with decent public transportation, you can actually be more independent as a young person without a car than with -- pretty much everywhere you need to go can be reached via metro or bus, and the occasional cab is still cheaper than a car plus insurance. Even if you are in the suburbs, many kids figure out who to get around without a car.

I am another person who didn't get my license at 16 back in the 90s, even though most people did. It was anxiety for me, too, but my anxiety was directly related to the fact that my parents were TERRIBLE driving instructors and made me not only afraid of getting in an accident, but afraid of literally every aspect of driving. They were hypercritical and would yell at me for grinding the gears on the stick shift (which any new driver would do, it takes practice to get it right) or basically anything I did that wasn't perfect yet. It was awful. I finally asked them to pay for drivers ed classes and that's how I learned to drive and it was a million times better. But I actually am still an anxious driver because of that early experience and only do it if I have to.[/quote]

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