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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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" :D 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 :P
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.
:D :D :D :D
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
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.