That makes sense, I guess.

I got my license in 1992. Other than my license saying "UNDER 21", it wasn't different from anyone else's license. I had bought my car a few months earlier, and was picking up friends to go to the mall within a half hour of getting home from taking the test on my 16th birthday.

But by the time my brother got his license in 95 or 96, there were all sorts of restrictions on when you could drive and how many passengers you could have. I think for the first year, you could only have one person under 18, and only until midnight. Come to think of it, I don't think he bought a car until he needed one to commute to college.