Ive read in a few books about this, and there is interesting data on this. It references the generation of GenZ or I-Gen, the ones who have grown up with the internet as we know it today, as a part of their entire life. It shows that a lot of kids are very risk averse, possibly afraid of failure, a lot of heavy helicopter parenting by their well intentioned parents attempting to not have their kids get hurt or encounter adversity, and then on the driving thing---- Yea I guess a lot of kids don;t have the desire to drive much because their parents drive them everywhere, and with phones and social media connectivity, why would you need to drive anywhere when you can just hole yourself up in your bedroom and "connect" with your friends? Doesn't feel like all this bodes well for society. But it's probably too late to reverse course. I couldn't wait to turn 16 and get out in my truck to go hang out with friends on a Fri/Sat night........