16 1/2 years old to get a license in Massachusetts...I graduated in 1979 from East Bridgewater High (high) I made sure of it you might say.....you could have a warrant out in an adjacent county and they didn’t have the technology to find out...way more fun and free without being paranoid ...I saw and still do see things this way....Not a matter of growing up but keeping your freedom.....
And run and hide from the single police helicopter whose only technology in the 70’s was a flood light.