At what age did you get your Drivers license?

[Becky2005]

I was 16.

My poor DD at the rate we are going is going to be 18 before we even get her into Driver's Ed. It's not all my fault though. She had some surgery the day before her 15th birthday so couldn't bend, lift or twist for 3 months afterward (we thought it was going to be a year). It's hard to learn to reverse a car if you can't twist.

Now she is clear but she doesn't have TIME to take the course. We have been trying to find a schedule that works with all her extra curriculars and so far it's not going well. You can NOT miss any classes so trying to find a time when she doesn't have other commitments isn't easy. Apparently, they don't do it in school during gym class like they did when I was in school anymore. I have to double check on that tomorrow.

She most definitely *wants* to drive, who knew taking Driver's Ed would be this complicated. Mine was all during school hours, went and took the test on my 16th birthday and wah-lah that was all there was to it.

 

[live4christp1]

Got them when I was 16.

 

[pooh4evr]

16- then a job to pay for insc and stuff.
Oh and also went through drivers ed at school

 

[stacieberry]

16. i was also required to take driver's ed and did so at my high school.

 

[xCourxCorex]

I was 16.

My poor DD at the rate we are going is going to be 18 before we even get her into Driver's Ed. It's not all my fault though. She had some surgery the day before her 15th birthday so couldn't bend, lift or twist for 3 months afterward (we thought it was going to be a year). It's hard to learn to reverse a car if you can't twist.

Now she is clear but she doesn't have TIME to take the course. We have been trying to find a schedule that works with all her extra curriculars and so far it's not going well. You can NOT miss any classes so trying to find a time when she doesn't have other commitments isn't easy. Apparently, they don't do it in school during gym class like they did when I was in school anymore. I have to double check on that tomorrow.

She most definitely *wants* to drive, who knew taking Driver's Ed would be this complicated. Mine was all during school hours, went and took the test on my 16th birthday and wah-lah that was all there was to it.

I had trouble fitting in Driver's Ed too - I had dance commitments pretty much 12 months a year.

Some driving schools offered accelerated classes during school vacation weeks for kids that couldn't otherwise. Maybe you could call and ask the schools around you if they offer anything like that? They would hold all the classes during the vacation week, and then you could just schedule your driving hours and observations either that week, or other individual days that were more convenient.

 

[olena]

I still don't have one, but that may change in the next 10 years.

 

[Inigo]

16 years 1 month exactly. Guess what the minimum age to get a license is in Indiana?

I took driver's ed in HS as a sophomore, during the spring semester before I turned 16 in August. I already knew how to drive though, since I grew up on a farm and had been driving tractors and farm trucks for years. Part of my job from about the age of 11 was to go pick up the hay crew, usually boys about 15 or 16. Never got stopped, but everyone lived on back roads so I was never near the highway.

My driver's ed teacher was a friend of my dad's, and I'd been driving to his house for years. I had it first period. When it was time for road class, when 3 students and 1 teacher would go out and drive around the county, he'd toss me the keys and send me out to get a car out of the parking area. The other driver's ed teachers had to get their own cars out. He knew I could drive well enough to be trusted.

I did have a tendency to drive faster than the other students during road class. He just told me if I got a ticket in the driver's ed car, I would have to pay the ticket. I got no tickets! At least not during driver's ed.

 

[starann]

I was 16. My parents were self employed and I could not use the family cars as you had to be 25 (due to insurance). My parents sent me to on the road drives ed at school (for like $60 over the summer) and then got me private lessons thru a driving school (only for 2 hours). My fathers employee took me for my test (both times!)

I got my DL in Aug, along with a new car (1996 Geo Tracker, purple). In Oct I was diagnosed with epilepsy and had my DL 'revoked' until I was seziure free for 6 months (it took me 9)....talk about a MAJOR bummer...a new car and I couldn;'t drive it!

 

[RitaE]

I was 16.

My poor DD at the rate we are going is going to be 18 before we even get her into Driver's Ed. It's not all my fault though. She had some surgery the day before her 15th birthday so couldn't bend, lift or twist for 3 months afterward (we thought it was going to be a year). It's hard to learn to reverse a car if you can't twist.

Illinois is a real PITA now. I thought we got lucky last summer because I found a private agency last year that fit my son's summer schedule and he got his permit a couple weeks after his 15th birthday. Of course, the class was totally worthless. It was taught by some weird lady who called herself "Ms. J" and according to all the kids she did nothing for the 4 weeks but sit and read romance novels while they supposedly studied their Rules of the Road.

Then actually getting them to schedule his driving hours was a headache beyond belief. DH finally had to threaten to call a lawyer. My kid got his license last week though. Thank God - now I can send him to the grocery store for me.

 

[rie'smom]

I was 15 and on the way to the license bureau I asked my mom what side of the road I was supposed to on when driving. The first time that I drove was that day and I had had no drivers training. The licensor said I was one of the best drivers he'd seen which made me laugh after I was holding my new license in my hands.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I got it at 17--but it was a comedy of errors as my mother was military and getting a day that she was able to take the time off to take me for my license was--a pain. She might have been delaying, I dont' know.

The day I was originally supposed to get it--i Don't remember how old I was. But I had heard a horriffic car accident outside our home in New Orleans. A big ol' speeding boat of a car rammed a cast iron light post and it collapsed and his car was wrapped around it like a taco. Drive only got a busted ankle from when he the steering column pinned him. (Thankfully he wrecked as there was an active school zone down the street). I'm not sure if I was sixteen or 17--but mom decided I had freaked out too much to take a driver's test.

Funny thing is--she let her fool of a husband teach me how to drive a stick shift when I was about 13 or 14. So it wasn't like I didn't know how to drive as she permitted this dumb-butt to teach me.

But I was 17 and prior to the taco wreck, it was a logistics issue--or so I have been told.

Since I had no permit--and I took my test in a stick shift--it was comical as the instructor who could not drive the thing was worried she'd get stuck out somewhere. It was the EASIEST driver's test b/c she was afraid to get stuck anywhere. I'm sure she was quite puzzled as to how I could manage a standard transmission.

 

[MinnieMe87]

I got mine the day after I turned 16. Would've gotten it the day of, but my birthday fell on a Monday that year, and the Driver's License Bureau is closed on Mondays.

 

[Disney Doll]

16

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

21, I had no desire to drive at all.

Was more than happy to have friends/boyfriends pick me up.