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.
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. :P
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.