Should 14 and 15 year olds be able to get full driver's licenses?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

They can in North Dakota. The minimum age in ND is actually 14 and 6 months (you have to be 14 to get a learner's permit, and have to have one for 6 months to get a full license). To get one under 16 though you must complete a behind the wheel driver's ed class, 16 and up you just have to pass the test.

I see nothing wrong with the law and think it should be that way in all 50 states.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Is there really a pressing need for 14 year old's to drive?  Why not make it 12 or 10?  Is there any reason why it should be lowered?

I think the idea behind it was so that kids in rural areas could drive themselves to school. But I lived in an urban area and could still get my license at the same age (got it at 15 though).

I just turned 16 and now I have to get Behind the Wheels Lesson and wait almost month before getting my permit, which I must wait til I'm 17 to get a license.  But I see why NJ has a higher age than ND, just compare the conditions

There are parts of NJ more rural than where I lived in ND.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

(due to the great travel distances and lack of public transportation)

That wasn't true where I lived.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

They can in North Dakota. The minimum age in ND is actually 14 and 6 months (you have to be 14 to get a learner's permit, and have to have one for 6 months to get a full license). To get one under 16 though you must complete a behind the wheel driver's ed class, 16 and up you just have to pass the test.

I see nothing wrong with the law and think it should be that way in all 50 states.

Most children that age can't handle driving, don't use the excuse of "they have to pass a driver's ed test" A dog could have passed the program I took w/o a problem.

Stop trying to fight the man on everything, the man owns you.

Then Texas needs a tougher test.

This isn't causing massive traffic problems in ND and don't say that's because it's ND and there's no one on the road since in the cities that's not true at all. Bismarck's rush hour is made even worse by the absolutely terrible traffic light system (although my family says it's been improved in the last few years)...

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

When you specify down to the less populated rural states, I can see this working.

But not all parts of them are less populated and rural.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Teenagers need driver's licenses. High school kids work too. Plus without one I couldn't have all those fun nights in Minot.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Kids in high school have jobs too. Plus they also go to things like the prom and having your parents drive you there isn't exactly the coolest thing (mind you, I never went to the prom and hate proms, but that's just me). So I don't understand how people can expect teenagers not to drive.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Might I also ask, do you really want people becoming adults without any driving experience?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Umm, absolutely not

14 and 15 year olds are not ready to drive, that would assume that practice has to start around 12 or 13, this is a terrible idea

Uh, no. Practice starts at 14 in North Dakota.