February 15, 2012
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Allowing My Son To Drive the Car
So I let my son drive tonight.
He is 18. My parents let me get my permit when I was 15 and then I received my driver’s license when I was 16. I did not let my son get his permit because I just didn’t feel he was ready. So I was finally going to let him get his permit after he took driver’s ed. I was going to sign him up today.
He told me he did not need driver’s ed. He already knew how to drive. So I let him drive tonight and it is obvious that he has already driven a few hundred times.
It really went pretty well.
How old were you the first time you drove?
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15 years old.
16. I hated it! lol
Glad it went well!
I was 18. I had to buy a car and teach myself to drive.
17, still kinda learning at 19…
9. I was a farm girl, what can I say?
14
Does chasing neighbor kids with a 4 wheeler count? TEN!
15 and I almost killed everyone in the car
I didn’t get my license until a week before I started college. I was almost 18. I didn’t really drive until I was around 16.
15 1/2 or 16… my dad wouldn’t let me touch a car until I got my permit and once I got it he didn’t want to teach me. He said once I had an instructor so I got one…. and he was still skeptical…. Still got my license at 16 … fun times!
I’m not really sure. 17 or 18 maybe? And it was with my husband (at the time, he was my boyfriend).
First drove when I was 16. My dad still will not be in the same car as me while I drive, and I’m 23. A better driver than either my parents.
I was 16… but I didn’t get my license until I was 19… A car accident as a young teen scared me horribly and it took me that long to get over my fear… as is, I still don’t like to drive.
i think i was 18 when i first really drove a car. always made me nervous. haha.
Driving is very dangerous for me. I tried when I was 15 and there were just too many things to process. It’s not that it was hard, I just was never able to process all of the different things you have to keep track of in a car, and watch out for other drivers, and think about the safety of others in the car. I gave up eventually. Then when I was 18 I got involved in a long distance relationship and tried again. Still couldn’t process things fast enough to be safe, so I never felt safe when others were in the car, and I never felt safe when I’m behind the wheel. To this day I still can’t go a ride in the passenger seat without panicking a few times at reckless drivers and other agressive maneuvers taken by others.
Good Luck with your son and no matter what, support him even if he ends up taking the bus everywhere.
I’ll be 19 in three months and I literally don’t even know which pedals are which. I don’t want to drive… it’s too much of a hassle.
A car? I was like 10. I was around cars alot when I was a kid. I drove gocarts, four wheelers, and jet ski’s too, so driving a car was no big deal for me.
15 years old
15 when I learned how to do it, 16 when I got my license.
I just got my permit two or three months ago. I’ve driven probably 6 times – once by myself (crazy step brother). The first time I drove a car was just… 5 months ago or so.
I have drove four wheelers, a boat, a golf-cart and those nifty driving lawn mowers too haha.
17 yrs old
18. That’s the age that I think people should be allowed to GET their permit.
When I was 10 or 11 my great uncle taught me to drive his VW beetle.
When I was 10 or 11 my great uncle taught me to drive his VW beetle.
I drove at 16, but we didn’t have all the ipods, cell phones and other things to distract us as they do today. I’m glad it went well for you and your son. In my state you can receive better car insurance if you have taken Drivers Education Classes.
15 years old.
I was 5.
I backed my dad’s truck across a busy street into a brand new car at a dealership.
15…got my license at 16.
LOL – “it is obvious that he has already driven a few hundred times.”
The first time I drove I was 15 and I got my license when I was 16. I’ve always been a pretty decent driver haha. My parents trust my driving over my sister’s and my dad trusts mine over my mom’s. I’ll probably be a wreck when it comes to teaching my hypothetical kids to drive.
15 years 6 months 22 days.
15, got my permit when I was 16. First thing I did? I skipped school with some friends to watch X-Men 2 in theaters haha.
I was 15 – taking drivers ed in Michigan.
The instructor explained how much better a driver’s license was in Michigan than a hunting license. They have a point system for driving infractions in Michigan. Get too many points and they take the license away. At the time, a drivers license cost about 7 dollars – or something like that – and a hunting license cost something like 10 dollars. He explained you could kill two people with driver’s license before you accumulated enough points to lose your driver’s license, but you could only kill one deer with the hunting license.
I was supposed to start at 15.5, but I was delayed because my brother pissed off my parents, so they made him wait a year. When his punishment ended, I was of legal age to drive and they couldn’t afford to send us both to drivers ed. I tried to argue that the best punishment would be to make him beg his little brother for a ride, but they said no. Looking back at it, I waited as long as he was punished and didn’t piss them off (that much), so I should have gotten a free pass to make them mad, right?
um like 12? We live in the middle of no where so every now and then my dad would let me drive on the old back roads.
15 and I got it the week after my 16th birthday. Then I learned standard when I was 18.
15!
9 or 10…I got to drive tractors down on the farm and around town.
Is that the little dancer which seems like yesterday getting his license ‘dad’ ?
Goodness ..time flies…it’s good he can drive..bet he does just fine…take good care….hugs and love..Lee 
I started with my permit when I was 16, got my license at 17.
I cannot drive, but driving my parents mad (and both drive me mad now and again)
I sat on my dads lap and controlled the steering wheel when I was 5 or 6. Good times lol
17. Clipped my side mirror on the first drive!
17
I got my license at 18. I started learning to drive at 17. I have always believed that 18 should be the minimum age to be able to get a driver’s license. I am glad it has changed, at least in my state, from 16 to 18.
I’m 23 and I still don’t know how to drive.
15
a tractor? 10…..a car?….16 I think…I’m not sure.
I was about fifteen and neither of my parents wanted to teach me to drive. I taught myself in my mom’s car. I lived in a small town where the cop didn’t care much as long as we drove safe. He only pulled me over once and that was to tell me not to drive so fast over the railroad tracks. Things were a bit different then.
The small town was probably good for us since my younger sister was escorted home by the cop after she “stole” the car and drove it around the block six or seven times. She was twelve.
Drove cars at 13, stock trucks at 15, semi’s at 16. In our state at that time you could get a semi license at 16, just in-state.
Your son told you he didn’t “need Driver’s Ed, he already knew how to drive”? Then he is not ready to drive. Driver’s Ed is much more than “the left foot is brake, the right foot is gas”… it teaches about timing, spacing, defensive driving, escape zones, winter driving, emergency stops, fishtailing and correcting, and overcorrecting, etc. It teaches how differently a front wheel drive handles than a rear wheel drive vs an all wheel drive… there is a lot more to learn than “put it in “D” to go forward, “R” to go back ward and “P” when you’re stopped”…
Tell him Driver’s Ed or no drivers license. Be a parent, not his buddy.
I was 8 or 9 when I learned to drive, but I didn’t drive on highways until I was 15. Your son should take Driver’s Ed. It will usually help with insurance as well.
17, after my dad force educate me LOL. It’s a good skill to have though.
drove a 65 chevy pickup @ age 10.
I got my provisional license at 15 and I had my first experience driving a car at 16 with my dad when he took me to an old airfield which is now used as a practice area for learner drivers from as young as 14. I’m now 17 and having weekly lessons with an instructor working towards my theory and ultimately my practical tests to get my full license (hopefully before/around my 18th). I live in the UK though so it’s a bit different. You can’t drive on the roads here until you’re 17 (legally, at least…)
15, in an Auto matic Silverado double cab!
This was big for me since at the time I was only 5’1″ 
Then stick when I was 17 between an S-10 and GTI… I miss the GTI 
13? I used to steal my moms van after she went to sleep
I actually didn’t get my liscence until I was 19. I don’t think there’s a problem with that.
We lived out in the country so my family let us kids drive at a young age out in the corn fields. I went through drivers ed at 15, and got my license at 16. Didn’t learn to drive the highways till last year at 21yrs old. But I’mma pro at on-ramps now
11. in truck out on the farm
Cars and insurance is more expensive than when I learned to drive (back in the 70′s) But cars are sort of safer with air bags. If you child could pay for insurance I suppose granting them the right to drive would be an honor.
Still eventually we will need to do more public transportation. Road building is expensive and traffic jams are getting really bad.
I drove my first car at 19 and got my license at 21 and bought my first car at 23.
lol Technically? Three. Ha! Not really though, my grandmother let me steer the car while I stood in her lap.
And then again when I was 15. (I lived in the middle of nowhere, and people start driving trucks and tractors around here young. Even today.)
15/16. Drivers ed was required at my high school. But I didn’t get my license until I was 21. personally choice
Your son is 18?? Wow how time flies. Just wow. I wonder where he would have gotten the opportunity to drive, if you didn’t give him your car.
I think the first time I drove was in driver ed at the age of about 17. I might have informally driven a few years before that once or twice, for a couple of feet. Being a NYer I never got quite comfortable in a car; I’m more used to hopping public trans everywhere. It was many years before I got my license for the first time.
15 when I learned, 16 when I got my permit, and 19 when I learned how to drive a stick
so i told my dad i was ready even though he thought i was too young at 15. either he was right or i was just born never to drive
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I can’t remember the first time I drove but I can tell you that I hated driving and have simply refused to do it for over twenty years and I have gotten along just fine.
15.
15
I grew up driving the flatbottoms on my uncle’s farm ever since I can remember. I started driving on the road at 15 but legal driving age is 17 in my state. Since I was usually the only sober one I just drove though.
So who has been letting him drive behind your back? I don’t remember how old I was but I do remember thinking it would be a piece of cake driving and the first time my dad let be drive was on the way home from fishing.I had my permit I I figure I was about 16.I was scared to death I was going to go off in the ditch of the two lane road.I didn’t make it all the way home I don’t think.I told him he could drive the rest of the way
I was 13. http://skittler335.xanga.com/698858166/driving-lessons/
I was 9 years old when I first drove a car. I was 7 years old when I first drove a ski doo
I was 16.
We had this really long driveway because we lived in the countryside, so occasionally when I was really young (like, 6 to about 8) my dad would let me sit on his lap and steer as he worked the gas. It went hilariously bad at times, haha.
The first time I drove-drove, though, I was about 17.