Well, I'm starting driver's ed this summer... so I'll be 16 when I receive my license.

19 test was pretty damn easy for the beginners. I wonder how I'll fare this year for the G2.

I don't have it for now. I'm not required to have one as I have public transportation to get me around my city and, if needed, to travel to other cities.

Once I'll need it, such as when I'll think about having a family of my own, then I'll go get it. But for now, it'd be useless.

Hell, I only got my learners permit a few months ago. Didn't have much need of it before then, so I never gave getting it any serious thought.

Which reminds me, I should probably learn how to actually drive before my driving test comes around.

I was fairly sure a licence would be useless, but parents paid for me to get a licence and it ended up being really really useful. I used (and still do) public transport and a bike to get everywhere. I even did the maths and worked out it would be far cheaper to use taxis for the bits that public transport couldn't do rather than have a car. But then a parent broken an ankle. One call to the insurance company and I could drive their car and ferry people around simply because I had that licence.

Sometimes being able to drive is really really useful.

I got it when I was 18. Since you can only start after you turn 18
I failed my first theoratical exam, but I passed the first driving-exam.

Got mine the day I turned 16. 34 and some change years ago. Aced the written, and driving tests first time. (got my cycle endorsemant as well, considering my first "Car" was a bike.....)

It was such a joke. I remember I did absolutely terrible on the parallel park here. And before that, I asked if the "tester" was [censored]s like a lot of the other ones. To put it this way, I should have not said that. She was really nice, but she didn't like me. I still passed on my first time through so I don't care anymore.

I got my license about a month after I turned 18. Failed the test twice before passing, but feel I was extremely hard done by on the first one. The tests are far more difficult (and the testers far more inclined to fail you for silly things) here in the UK than they are in the States. From what I can tell, the driving tests over there are an absolute joke.



Being able to drive certainly is very useful. To those who are saying to themselves "Oh I don't need it now, so I'll get it when I need it later", you should probably go and get it now, because then when you do need it, you will already have it.

I wouldn't be able to get to work if I couldn't drive. I currently drive about 30 miles to work, so the car is a necessity.

I got it at 16. There wasn't really a final test we had to take. We just had to do 7 drive times and not completely fail at them.

My last drive time consisted of me driving my instructor up to the town he lived in so he could get the registration number on the tractor he wanted to buy.

17.

Just got my permit a little late and had to get all my hours in before I could get my license. And yes, the test was easier than a 1st grade math test. Seriously needs to be changed because I'm sick of all the idiotic no-driving fools that grace our roads.

I joined the forums 2 months before taking drivers ed. I passed the permit test on the first try. Passed the road test the first time. It was easy here. I didn't have to parallel park because there was a massive snow storm the night before.

Even if I didn't have a car, my license proves to be a very needed thing for namely proof of identification.

Edit: I was 15 when I got my permit and 16 when I got the actual license.

I got my Learner's License when I was about 16 (got it about 3 days before they brought in the new system that raised the number of required hours from 50 to 120) and then my Provisional License when I was 19 (about 4 days before my Learner's Liscense expired )

I passed my L's test with no problems, but failed the first time for my Provisional License as I turned on an intersection and sped up, not realising the school zone I'd just gone through continued on this road for a bit as well. I actually got more than enough points to pass both times, but the fast-through-a-school-zone thing was an instant fail.

16, the day of my birthday. Didn't fail it.

That's one advantage to having got it after I turned 21; no required practice hours. Of course it'd be pretty silly to actually go for the test with no practice, but at least I don't have to keep a log book.

Right after I turned 17.

Passed first time. Got knocked 13 points though for driving 20mph in a blind neighborhood (supposed to be 15mph) <_<

Wow...that was 13.5 years ago.

This. I know people who passed the test and still can't that well. It frightens me.