Driver education tends to be tied to driver’s licensing programs, which date back to 1903 in Massachusetts. By the 1930s, about half of US states had them. By the 1950s, Wyoming was the lone holdout. Heck, we didn’t even share driver records between states until 1961. As a 1949 Traffic Quarterly paper points out, “Driver-licensing is regarded primarily as a revenue-producing measure.”1 It isn’t much different today.
