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Today at my intermediate pistol class I met the third 15-17 teenage in as many weeks who "isn't interested" in getting a driver's license. In this case it was one of the range instructors' sons. He's 17. He doesn't have a license. He doesn't want one.

I know two 15 year-olds who aren't interested in driver's ed.

When I was 15, I couldn't wait to get my license. Now, I didn't get it until I was 17, but that was because my parents refused to take me to the DMV, not because I didn't want it. (It's a whole 'nother thread on why that was...)

The consensus in the class was that it's a phenomena of the "facebook generation". Maybe.

I can't help but wonder if Illinois driving laws don't play a role as well. When I was 16, when you got your license, that was it, you were a driver, and you could drive anywhere, with anyone, at any time. Now Illinois has a "graduated" driver's license, so new driver's cannot driver people their age or younger (exemption for family members), and there is a curfew. So now you can't legally driver with your friends, and you can't stay out all night. I can't help but wonder now that driving isn't social, it's lost its appeal...