I feel so trapped without a driving license… can’t go anywhere…
I think everyone has a driver’s license at 16 here in the US, but I’m already over 18 with no license… :(
I’m 40 and I got my licence in 2021. I pid 50$ to make sure(not USA), but never caused an accident with anyone.
Learner’s at 15, license at 16… Crucial skill for an adult. Def go finish getting it. I learned through my school.
A driving school. Anything else is illegal here.
I was lucky that my parents paid for it. And prices have gone even more through the roof since then.
Got my license at 26, given that i live in the middle of no where that pretty much my life began.
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13, special license in some US states for kids who live out in the middle of nowhere so they can get to school.
Learned from parents, grandparents, siblings, being around trucks and tractors and motorcycles since I was a toddler. I knew how to drive long before I got a license.
I never heard the school excuse, I thought they allowed rural kids to drive so they could handle farm vehicles.
My home state had a permit for that too, certain vehicles I could drive on certain roads under restrictive speed limits. So I could, like, drive a tractor or farm truck with the right license plates down county roads to another field.
That was separate from a school permit. The nearest school bus stop to me was miles away and didn’t go directly to my school so I would have spent 3+ hours per school day on multiple buses if I hadn’t been able to drive myself in. Not to mention sports on weekends and other stuff where the normal school day bus wasn’t running. My permit restricted the hours I could drive, it had to be to or from school or jobs, and I couldn’t give anyone rides other than siblings. I think I wasn’t supposed to drive on the interstate too.
I didn’t get mine until 24. Lived in a city with public transport from 18-26.
I was late to riding a bike, too, though. I didn’t pick that up until 18.
In Germany, I got training at 17 during my commutes to school (i was living in the countryside and my driving instructor was my neighbor) and then made my license once I reached 18.
I never did. I got a learners permit at 16 or so, practiced with my parents for a number of years and renewed the learning permit at least once without testing for a full license, but eventually stopped and let it expire.
I have pretty bad anxiety issues, which driving has proven one of the triggers for, and unlike everything else that triggers it, for driving it got worse with exposure instead of better. I actually wasn’t even that nervous at first, but every time I’d make a mistake, or witness someone else make one, it’d come to mind every time I’d practice driving, because I didn’t want to accidentally kill someone from a lapse in judgment, and eventually every little thing built up so much that one day, my father handed me the keys and asked me to try taking us to a store, and I had a full-on fight-or-flight panic response just sitting in the drivers seat. At that point I finally deicided that it just wasn’t responsible of me to be on the road if after several years I still couldn’t even think straight while driving, and Ive never done it since, and ended up moving states a couple years in order to live somewhere that going with out a car is at least somewhat viable.
To be honest, Ive actually been happier since, its a huge expense that I don’t have, and Ivr found I can get a decent amount of exercise without having to go an intentionally make myself do it, just from walking a lot. But of course, it’s only comfortable in the kind of dense urban area with decent (by US standards) public transit that in the US seems to exist only in a handful of places, the cost of living for which eat a lot of the savings from not having a car in the first place.
Never. I’ve always been poor and it’s just not that necessary living in German cities. It would help a lot to be able to rent a car once in a while e.g. for moving apartments, but it seems like a bad idea to get a license and then only drive every couple of months, you’ll never build the skills to drive safely. It’s moot, though, I couldn’t afford the license itself anyway (pretty expensive in Germany).
How much?
Haven’t checked prices in a hot minute, but I think it’s about 3000€ right now, maybe more depending on the driving school and how many tries you need to pass the test.
Holy shit
18 from a school. Letting 16 year olds drive is insanity.
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I had a girlfriend whose 95 year old immigrant grandmother used to walk to the grocery store every day, crossing a major road.
She died crossing that road, when she was hit by a 16 yo girl who had just gotten her license, and was on her first solo drive.
I went to some random driving school. No sit-down class, just went straight behind the wheel. I already knew how to theoretically drive (manual transmission) because of observing other drivers, so I just needed a legal way to practice. I still learned a lot of course. The instructor basically used our driving sessions to run his personal errands. lol
I learned to drive when i was fourth grade, nice thing about knowing people who had farms. Got my license the day I turn 16.
Late 30s ~ early 40s. From a school as it is mandatory here with twelve hours of theory and 16 hours of practice classes.
I had probably close to 100,000km of experience on the road as a cyclist before that.
I was 17, and my parents taught me.
My oldest is 22, she still doesn’t drive.
Her little brother is 18. He’s gone driving with his mom and I a few times, but hasn’t taken the test.
