Youth
Driving age is the age at which a person can apply for a driver's license. Countries with the lowest driving ages (below 17) are Australia, Canada, El Salvador, Iceland, Israel, Estonia, Macedonia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Sweden, the United Kingdom (Mainland) and United States. The Canadian province of Alberta and several U.S. states permit youth driving as low as 14. Niger has the highest minimum driving age in the world at 23. In India, driving is legal after getting a license at the age of 18.
Jim Brown (Louisiana politician, born 1940)
In 1997, Brown released a legislative plan that proposed a significant crackdown on driving while intoxicated and uninsured motorists since driver's licenses were first required in Louisiana in 1946. The legislature approved his bills to raise the driving age from 15 to 16, to limit the availability of uninsured motorists to recover losses from other drivers, to seize vehicles from multiple drunken-driving offenders, to lower the blood alcohol content for DWI, and to impound uninsured vehicles.