Researchers at Tesco Car Insurance have made an eye-opening discovery about the firm's young driver car insurance customers.
Recently published results from the cheap car insurance provider's annual "Drivers' Attitudes" survey revealed that 38 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds support proposals to raise the driving age to 18.
Before these findings were published, it was assumed that the campaign to raise the driving age had been championed by older drivers (worried presumably about young relatives or the chance of being crashed into) and fiercely resisted by those in their teens and twenties.
"I'm surprised," said Hoot Car Insurance Services spokesman Mike Page, an expert on car insurance for young drivers but perhaps not on prevailing attitudes towards them.
"Maybe today's young motorists don't feel like they were ready at that age - or else they think excluding 17-year-olds will bring down the price of car insurance for young drivers," he suggested.