When Dawn Johnson was a teenager growing up in Northern Virginia in the 1990s, she remembers counting down the days until she could start driving. The freedom to see her friends whenever she wanted was tantalizing, she says: “I wanted to get out of my house.”
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Why aren’t teenagers driving anymore?
Parents are baffled as their kids delay or forgo a driver’s license
February 21, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST