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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am going to take the other side of this debate.

If a teen lives in any compact city (DC, NYC, Boston, Philly, SF, Chicago, etc.) and takes public transport to school, to activities and to meet with friends, etc....what's the point of them getting a driver's license at 16.5 and then perhaps never driving anywhere for years.

Furthermore, perhaps they also attend college in a place where few people need or have a car.

If someone is a hesitant driver, why pay for them to be on the insurance for a car they will never use for perhaps 5 years...and how great will anyone feel about a kid who got their license 5 years ago, never drives...and now they just go drive and don't have to do any training or practice or anything.
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Exactly. We live in the middle of DC, two blocks from a metro station and with two different bus lines a block from the house. It's MORE trouble to drive most places from where we live. We only have space for one car, and street parking's a nightmare. We are an urban, public-transit oriented family, and most of my kid's friends growing up were in the same boat. They took metro where they wanted to go; several malls are on metro stations, any fast food, tons of parks and museums. She did eventually learn. But there was no reason to push her at 16 (or 17, or 18) to do so.

This insistence on driving is very provincial.

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