Beginning in September, young drivers must spend hours and hours of training time driving around with their moms. Not only that, for the first nine months after they receive their licenses, they are permitted to have only one unrelated person in the car with them. The theory is that if young drivers have more than one friend in the car, they might have too much fun. Actually, the original legislation didn't want teenage drivers to have any friends at all. Only some soft-hearted legislators who got nostalgic about driving Dad's car on their first date managed to amend the law to allow any social interaction among the young at all.
Cars are part of the teenage culture.
That's not going end by some old cranks passing laws against fun in cars. Fortunately, there's another way to go. It's called driver's education. Ironically, while everybody is wringing their hands and trying to figure out what to do about teenage traffic fatalities, many high schools are closing down their driver's training programs. One reason is that state spending caps are forcing all schools to shut down programs that are considered non-essential just to keep their academic programs going.