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… :(
License at 16, drove for the first time at 11 (on private property).
I got my licence 2 years ago at 35! I initially tried at 16 but my mother was just horrible to drive with and scared me off learning for a long time. When I actually got it I did lessons with an instructor for a long time and that was much better for building my confidence.
Got my license at 26, given that i live in the middle of no where that pretty much my life began.
I got mine when I was 26 after doing on and off lessons and other practice for nearly 10 years. I learned most of it from lessons so neither.
If I had the option, I would have never bothered learning how to drive. I never felt the need to drive, when I could just cycle everywhere. However, because I moved to my aunts place, she forced me go to a driving school to learn how to drive. I passed the dmv and am getting my license at 24.
I overheard my coworker talk about how a lot of her college classmates choose not to learn how to drive. This article from Vox, is from 2015, talks about young people are driving less.
Plenty of other articles out there discussing a more shift of the young people not learning to driving because they are choosing not to. So don’t worry about not having a driver license, you’re not the only one.
I felt like the upfront cost of a used/new car as well as insurance plus yearly maintenance, car ownership is not worth it. It’s cheaper to just use public transport and uber if you’re willing to spend more time waiting. Maybe consider getting a e-bike if your city is pedestrian friendly. Don’t need to get a license as well as you can park anywhere given you lock it up properly. It’s much cheaper than a car, and you’ll be working out somewhat.
I was my mom’s oldest kid, she let me drive without a license to learn, as she was not familiar with the rules. Then I took a written test and driving test.
Drivers ed here was in the summers and my friend and I traveled in the summer instead, worked in the school year to make $ so that we could.
My kids, insurance cost is so high here now, they have to wait until they can pay that, I couldn’t handle a $1,000 increase in the monthly budget for two teen drivers at that time. The older ones learned after college, my younger ones got the learner permits and learned earlier, one at 15 (she is the only one who likes to drive my stick shift car) and the other at 17 (that one still has only learner permit, can drive well, but usually takes bus or bike to get around town).
I think the reason kids usually learn early here is because the bus system has been systematically underfunded for so long. It’s really hard to have a job without a car unless you are lucky and able to arrange everything close to your house. Which isn’t gonna happen if your parents live in the exurbs.
I didn’t get mine till 18, even though I went through my schools driving program at 16.
Its nothing to be embarrassed about! I literally didn’t know that vehicles would slowly move themselves when in drive until the first time I got behind the wheel in the driving school lol.
I literally didn’t know that vehicles would slowly move themselves when in drive
Lol I noticed this in the passenger seat when the brake pedal was let go and I notice the movement and I just know of this as a weird quirk.
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.
A little bit of each. Technically drivers Ed in high school. I think 16 or 17, whatever I was the summer I took it. However my dad taught me to drive stick, plus driving a car was easier since I already drove tractors and ATVs
Got mine at 22, drove twice before taking the test and barely passing
My wife got hers at 14 1/2. That was the legal age in Maine until the late 1980s.
We would steal my friend’s mom’s car when she fell asleep back when we were 12 and 13 and go to BestBuy to steal CDs… so by the time we were old enough to get a license, driving was pretty familiar.
Lolol I wish I had a childhood this wild
Driver’s ed in high school. Either 15 or 16. It was mandatory where I grew up.
They didn’t teach stick though. My dad “taught” me that. I.E. yelled at me until I learned it myself.
My cousin and his wife are 57 and neither of them have a driving license. They cycle, take public transport or take a taxi when absolutely necessary. I myself was 30 when I got mine, and I still cycle or take public transport unless it’s not possible (sadly the buses are garbage where I live nowadays, but I do take the train a lot).
Well over 18. Paid for Driving instructor(cuz by then I was able to afford it at that age) . Seriously best money I have ever spent.
do not have a relative teach you. All a relative will teach you is all their bad habits. An Instructor will reprogram you the correct way and teach you how to actually pass the test.
do not have a relative teach you.
In this economy?
Nah, dad can teach me just fine, clean driving record never was in an at-fault crash.
(I’m broke af lmao, I don’t even own a car, I’d have to borrow one of my parents cars to go anywhere lol)
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never was in an at-fault crash.
Right of way, but dead wrong.
No what I mean is the only crash involved was when they’re parked waiting at a red light and a car hit them from behind. Luckily no one was seriously hurt.
Indeed not much you can do. But a lot of accidents happen because people have “I have the right of way” attitude. Sure that’s true, and your insurance will pay out, but you’re still getting in that accident when you could have avoided it.
