At what age did you get your Drivers license?

[PaulaSB12]

20, you can't get a driving license in the UK until you are 17 and if you learn to drive in an automatic car that is all you are legally allowed to. So most people learn to drive a manual clutch.

 

[suzimar57]

got my permit at 16 - that seems like such a looooong time ago!

 

[DVC-Don]

16.5, first try on a standard trans back in 1968. I learned to drive at 11 on a farm tractor.

 

[Camicar]

I got mine about a month before my 19th birthday.

I did take my exam when I was 16, but the unwritten rule in our town was that ALL girls were failed on their first test. The examiner was so mean and nasty to me trying to distract me to get me to fail by messing up (he eventually just marked fail on my sheet, even though I'd done nothing wrong), that I couldn't bear to go back for a long time.

But overriding that was the fact that there was no point in my getting a license since I had no car to drive nor any money to pay for insurance. My parents had made it quite clear that they were not going to allow me to drive their cars and would not pay my insurance and since they would not allow me to work, I had no way to earn money for a car let alone gas/insurance. So in that situation, what was the point of getting a license?

I did know how to drive, both automatic and stick. But didn't get my license until I went away to college.

 

[Patch'sD]

At 16 I got a Juniors License, which was usless in the County of New York I lived in. The only thing it did was burn up the probation period. On my 17th Birthday my Juniors License became a full Operators License since I completed a Drivers Education Course and had my blue card. Otherwise in NY you would have to wait until 18 to have an unristricted license

 

[tigger 12]

I was either 21 or 22. I was in the Army in Germany and a Sergeant told me to move a truck from one location to another. I asked him "How?". He said to just drive it like a car. I told him I had never been behind the wheel of a car or truck in my life. So I learned to drive in Germany in an Army 2.5 Ton truck with a five speed transmission.

That is a funny story !

Interesting how different states have different requirements. Glad I was able to get mine at 16.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Sixteen. That was the earliest we could get it.

 

[Handbag Lady]

I had my learner's at 15.5 and my real one at 16.

I had been driving and driving a stick since I was about 12 or 13. My dad was an 0ff-Roader and I learned in his sandrail.

I got 100 on my driving test. It is easy when you've been driving so long. I was taught to relax while driving ANYTHING, and that helped.

I also bought my first car at 15, it was a Jeep.

 

[tigger 12]

Bumpity Bump

 

[LaurenLC]

6 hours after turning 16!

 

[jimmalru80]

17. My dad "taught" me and I got my license despite that.

 

[sbell111]

I got my license at 16 through my high school's drivers ed program. My parents did not teach me to drive, at all. In fact, when I was about 17, I bought a car with a manual transmission. I taught myself how to drive it.

 

[ozarkmom]

Learners permit at 14 drivers license at 16 oh and my dad taught me.

 

[Serena]

At 16, I bought my own car too. My dad and boyfriend(dh to be) taught me how to drive.
At 19, while overseas, I got my international drivers license and learned to drive a stick.

 

[snapppyd]

I took driver's ed and got a junior license at 16.

 

[SharpMomOfTwo]

I got mine on my 17th birthday - I'm in NJ, so I had to wait till then. Neither my mother or father would allow me to drive them with my permit, so I just had the 6 hours of school and that was it. Then a week or two after I got my licence, my sister asked me to go out on Highway 35 and get her some Dunkin Donughts. I hit a motorcyclist. He was fine, I really just tapped him...... so the moral of this story is - LET YOUR KIDS PRACTICE DRIVING!!!!! THEY COULD KILL SOMEONE OTHERWISE!!!

 

[Henna's_Mom]

I was 25 and my mother in law taught me how to drive in her minivan. I had grown up in Brooklyn and had no need for a license or a car.

 

[Kath2003]

17. That's the youngest you can apply for one here. I passed 9 months after my 17th birthday. There was a 3 month wait for practical tests, and you had to complete the theory test before then. It also took me that long to save up for lessons and the tests (they're about $150 for both the theory and practical test).

 

[MUFFYCAT]

I was 37. I lived in Queens and never needed to drive until I moved to Long Island and had kids.

 

[Kathi OD]

I got mine on my 16th birthday. Back in the day we could get our permits at 15 and take the test at 16. There wasn't any of this 6 months waiting period before going to get your license either.

My dad was my primary teacher, but we also had driver's ed at school. It was a regular class, that everyone had to take for 1 semester instead of health. We had a couple of weeks of classroom instruction, a couple of weeks in a simulator, and then a couple of weeks of on-the-road training with a teacher. Best thing was that it took place during the school day and our parents didn't have to pay anything extra for it.