The New York Times Article

More of America’s 16-year-olds are waiting to get their driver’s license. A recent New York Times article reads:

“For generations, driver’s licenses have been tickets to freedom for America’s 16-year-olds, prompting many to line up at motor vehicle offices the day they were eligible to apply.

No longer. In the last decade, the proportion of 16-year-olds nationwide who hold driver’s licenses has dropped from nearly half to less than one-third, according to statistics from the Federal Highway Administration.”

- The New York Times, 2/25/08, Mary M. Chapman & Micheline Maynard