23. I had no reason to get a license until then. When I was 16 I lived in Atlanta GA and couldn't afford nor needed a car. When I was 17 I joined the Army and didn't need a car (had plenty of buddies to bum rides from while in Kansas and in Korea we wasn't allowed to drive non-military cars, license or not). After my first trip to Iraq I moved off-base and got an apartment, which pretty much meant I need to drive. I was driving a lot longer than that but I finally made it official so I could get a car.
Reminds me... my drivers license is suspended indefinitely until I finish paying a charge that I recieved for battery... MOFO, should of never stole my iTouch.
[QUOTE="the_ChEeSe_mAn2"]I don't have one yet :( I am 21, but I am hoping to get it this year.Pirate700
I don't mean this to sound rude, but are you still having your folks drive you around or something? I don't live with my parents :) I live in another city where I am currently going to a university where I just use the public transportation system. Whenever I visit my parents over the holidays I don't travel much.
I got my Learners (It's like a permit in America) at 15 and my Restricted license (Means i can drive on my own but not between 11pm and 5am and I can't carry passengers) at 16, passed both tests first try.
I'm 19 and just got mine. When I was 13 all the teachers and staff in the school brought us into the auditorium to show us a short film about drunk driving. It included a bit about a girl who was in a head on collision and got her legs stuck under the dashboard. The car caught on fire and she was burned alive. She lived, but she was horribly disfigured. The moral of the story? No matter how good of a driver you are, there's still a decent chance someone will crash into you and burn you alive until you look like a comic book villain. At 16 I was still traumatized. There was no way in hell I was getting behind the wheel of a car.
Got my permit when I was 18, passed in on the second try without ever reading the manual or having training or whatever. I'd just been driving illegally with my parents, teaching me to drive.
I got my License also at 18 passed the first time.
I got my learners at 16 but was forced to drive with somebody who already had their license and was over the age of 24 for a entire year before I could take my N (new driver) test at 17. I'm currently 17 and have a N but have a lot of restrictions such as, you can only drive with one person outside of family unless somebody over the age of 24 is with you and has their full license, can drive by yourself but must wear the N sign on the back of the vehicle etc.
I can go for my full license in two years at 19. It's the laws here in British Columbia, Canada.
15 when I got my learners (a few days after my birthday), 15 for my restricted (6 months later), 16 when I got my full (12 months later, down from 18 with a defensive driving course).
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