[War_Wagon]

Teens generally can't afford to do anything. At that age not many of them make enough to do much at all. If they wanted to drive, they'd find a way. There isn't as much interest in driving, and more interest in other things, so there is less incentive to make it happen. I had no money in my teens, but I really wanted to drive, so that was all I spent my money on. I can see that if I wasn't interested in driving that bad then I probably wouldn't have bothered making the effort to make it happen. Maybe I would have spent my money on a sport or some other activity, but I think with the limited funds teenagers have pretty much always had, if one thing isn't your priority then it doesn't happen. And these days there are so many distractions away from making it the priority it used to be that it just goes by the wayside as being "too expensive".