Coming from an European country: 16 year olds can openly buy beer in the supermarket and consume it on their way home from school. Driving licenses start at a

Coming from an European country: 16 year olds can openly buy beer in the supermarket and consume it on their way home from school. Driving licenses start at age 18, but there's two years of special probation that punish DUIs more extensively (and have a significantly lower limit). Police enforcement of these driving rules at times when young people celebrate is high. This also means they do not start binge-drinking AFTER they got their driving license, they know their limits by then. Doesn't mean we don't have drunk drivers, but maybe less drunk ones. We've had around 13500 alcohol-induced accidents with human casualties (of 306000 altogether) in 2021, but only about 2600 deaths overall, so probably less than 300 alcohol-related deaths in traffic.