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View Poll Results: What is your age group?
< 20 3 1.70%
20 - 30 9 5.11%
31 - 40 20 11.36%
41 - 50 47 26.70%
51 - 60 50 28.41%
61 - 70 34 19.32%
> 70 13 7.39%
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Old 24-01-18, 17:11
Ed Landstrom Ed Landstrom is offline
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I haven't seen any statistics to back it up, but there's a popular theory that the current crop of teenagers aren't interested in learning to drive, let alone restore, because it would interfere with the time they spend on their electronic devices. According to this theory, getting his driver's license on his 16th birthday is no longer a boy's major goal. Even if he is interested in military vehicles, driving one on a game console is better than driving on a road in every way (cheaper, safer, cleaner, more comfortable, and he doesn't have to leave his patents' basement to do it).

If this theory is correct, we may run out of Uber drivers. It's a good thing autonomous vehicles are almost ready, or no one would be able to get around.

My children learned to drive quite a while ago, and none of their children are quite there yet, so I don't have any personal experience with the supposed phenomenon, but there must be people on here who can comment.
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