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I had the option:

Take drives ed at 15, get license at 16.

Wait until 18.

JUMPED on option 1!! :p

Took the class the summer of 2013 I think? Then got my license July of 14 ( I had turned 16 in June, which is Idaho law) Been driving sense then!!!

Will get my solid, normal person license mid June this next year once I am 18.
 
Due to a November birthday: I was almost a year older than others in my class in school. Got my license my sophomore year, driver education not offered before junior. Had my DL nearly a year before driver education was offered. In the early 70's it didn't matter much. I had been driving since age 14. Not uncommon in a farm community back then.
 
I took driver's ed in the summer of 1970. The car used for class was a fully optioned blue 1970 Plymouth Fury 3. What a tank, but it had A/C and an extra brake pedal on the instructor's side.
 
Never had drivers ed.. Started driving long before it was offered or required. Learned how to drive in a hayfield. Got cussed out by the older guys while they were loading hay on the stake truck when I had a problem reaching the clutch peddle at age ten. Going up a little hill I popped the clutch an slid the load off on the ground.

Got my license at age sixteen. That was 63yrs ago. Drove a team of horses before I drove a vehicle. No drivers ed required or offered for that either.
 
I already had my licences but took drivers Ed for the insurance reduction . Drivers Ed car was a brand new Dodge Cornet 500 with get this a 413 4bbl and it had typewriter drive ( push button torqueflite ) with a posi rear end two door hard top. I took ine during the winter and the roads were bad , Old Mr. Gill made me drive on the bad days on the roads for some reason most of the time and if someone else was to drive then he would take them to the Fair Grounds . He really was the nervous type . Myself i did not care much for the Dodge because it had a vary loose power steering and touchy power brakes . Oh yea drivers ed was fun. Hey we even had to learn now to put Chains on , i already knew how since i had my own car and i was also driving my own company truck.
 
Took driver ed in 1974 in eastern Ontario. Dad was a pro driver, and he insisted that I learn from another pro, so I wouldn't learn his mistakes. Smart man. My instructer was a retired city bus driver who had seen it all. I still drive the way he taught us- I've never had a wreck and I don't think I've ever caused one.
 
I took drivers ed in 57. The car was a 57 chevy, with duel controls. It had a standard transmission. It was kind of exciting for kids who never drove a car, and had to learn how to use the clutch. Stan
 
i had drivers ed in high school, but had already been driving at the farm. the company i worked for, as i had a company car , required us to take a defensive/safe driving class from the illinois state police. it was about a 4 hour class at a local community college on a saturday. it was an excellent class!! taught a lot of things on how to recognize dangerous situations on the road, pitfalls to avoid, and various techniques for safe driving. we kind of poo-poo-ed it when we were notified we needed to take it, but it turned out to be a really good class.
 
Can't remember if drivers ed. was even offered at my school in the late 50s. In any case I didn't take it; I learned to drive on my dad's tractors and trucks, so getting my license at 16 was just a formality. Seems I did have to bone up on a training manual.

A friend of mine, a teacher, was teaching at a school in west Texas years ago, and being a coach, he drew the short straw on having to teach driver ed. One day he loaded up a few of his students and headed out to the desert for some hands-on training. When they reached a remote area out of harm's way he put a boy, the class doofus, behind the wheel. As they cruised along Carl spotted a rattlesnake sunning himself in the road ahead. He casually told Doofus, "Run over that snake."

However, the snake had other plans, and began to head out into the desert. Doofus dutifully veered off the highway, following the snake. Within seconds the car wheels were buried in sand 40 feet out in the scrub. Doofus excitedly turned to Carl and said, "Did I get him, Coach?"

They all had to walk back two or three miles to the school. For months Carl had to endure "Did he get him, Coach?" from his fellow teachers whenever he walked by.
 
Did you get more sense in the time since then? I took a driving class a couple of years ago called '55 and alive', Does that count? I was only 80 at the time and driving for over 64 years.
Keep up the good work young man and happy farming.
 
Got a restricted Kansas license at age 14 which allowed to drive for farm work or errands and to/from school. Drove to the high school drivers ed class the next summer because Dad got an insurance break if I had the class.

High schools around me now no longer offer driver ed.
 
Took my drivers ed in new 1957 Ford Four door sedan. Teacher was my basketball coach, Wayne Stone, a real die hard hunter. He knew I had a great Lab, so after school, he would get another student, drive to my house load up the dog, me, and shotguns. We would drive around until dark shooting pheasants, tossing them into cardboard box in the trunk. I was the only guy that got 24 driving lessons and it took 8 to pass the course LOL As a joke he made out a course graduation certificate for my Lab, Gypsy, and framed it for me. Still have it. No idea where mine went.
 
I got my license when I was 14 and a sophomore in high school. Got my first car for $300 bucks that summer, a 48 chevy fleetline. My cousin still has the car and wants to sell it back to me for 20 grand, think I will pass.
 
same here glennster. Been driving helping my dad on the farm since i was 10. I did take drivers ed in school but everyone in it had been driving for a couple years before the became official . got the offical semi license at 18
 
Christmas vacation, 1962. Drove a '62 Chevy Bel Aire or Biscayne 3 on the tree. You had to show proficiency on the standard trans before you could drive an automatic.
 
First, unofficial, driving school was in the early sixties. Driving the back roads around the farm with a grain truck and a wagon hooked on the back. I was fourteen.
 
Never took driver'ed. Got my 'chauffer's licence' at 16 in 1970, sort of an upgraded drivers licence, in a 1959 GMC 4 spd. . Pilot's licence at 21. Only one speeding ticket and one forced landing (successful!) since then.
 
Marilyn and I were just talking about that. I took it in the summer of 65 if I remember right. Started with a 54 Chevy and ended with a 65 Plymouth wagon. First time the instructor told me to go to Storm Lake, a town of probably 6000-7000 at that time I was tense as can be because it was the big city with traffic lights!
 
Best driving tip I ever got came from Pilot instructor while getting private license. Always have a safe place in mind should the feces hit the rotary oscillator!! Just hate to meet a semi hauling fuel or logs on a bridge. Will slow very slow or speed up to avoid passing . Never an accident -- well maybe caused a few. LOL
 
14 yrs.old 1959, Deputy sheriff gave me the test said I didn't need driving test because
he'd seen me driving around town.
 
My late father in law (born 1905) told me that when he was 14 went to the county courthouse plunked down 35 cents and they handed him his drivers license. Of course he'd been driving around the farm years before that. Got my license in Davenport Iowa in 1952.Only a brief written test...then a driving test. The policeman (who conducted the test then) had you parallel park going uphill on a very steep hill (Brady street) with a stick shift car. Almost no one passed that the first time!
 
Driving school was just becoming available in 1955, so didn't take it. Like almost every farm youngster, I had been driving in the field for several years, so did like the rest. On 15th birthday took the written test for learner's permit. In those days the test score sheet wasn't enough to practice driving, had to wait for the actual permit card to come in mail, usually about 2 weeks. Day after permit card came, made appointment for road test, took test in 39 Chev.
Took chauffeur test during Easter vacation after turning 18.
Need to take "over 55" refresher again this spring. Costs 20 bucks, sit about 3 hours (instructor usually cuts the 4 hour class a bit short) save 10% on insurance, good for 3 years.

Willie
 
Got a school permit when I turned 14, regular license when I turned 16. If I ever took a road test, I don't remember it. I'd been driving a farm truck to a grain elevator a mile and a half away since I was 11 or 12.

BTW, about 20 years ago, our daughter went to Germany as an exchange student. The male head of her host family was a professional driving instructor. Don't know if it's still the same, but at that time to get a driver's license in Germany one had to successfully complete a driving course taught by a professional instructor. The cost then was the equivalent of $1500 to $1800 U.S. dollars.

That's what is needed here in the U.S., but I can't imagine a politician touching it.
 
Driver's license? We dawn need no steenkin driving license. At least that's the attitude of those around here. Mostly with surnames ending in 'z'. TDF
 
I took driver ed in H.S in my senior year (58/59).
Like most guys my age, I learned how to drive long before that on tractors and farm trucks.
We took driver's ed mainly because it gave us 10% off on our insurance.
However, I will say that, as much as we didn't like to admit it, we did learn important stuff.
I believe all kids should take driver ed, especially nowadays when many have never driven a vehicle of any sort and don't have even the foggiest notion about the simple physics of controlling a big piece of machinery with all that inertia.
The Chevy dealer and the Desoto/Plymouth dealer took turns furnishing the driver ed cars every couple of years. I was lucky and got to drive a beautiful '57 Chevy.
To familiarize us with stick shift, we got to take the school's '57 Ford wagon a couple of times.
Oh, that was a long, long time ago! LOL
 
Learners at 14 years,raised on a FARM.........regular drivers License at 16 years. Motorcycle in 1987. Class 1 with AIR endorsement in 1988,after attending Driving School,32 hrs.of Theory,16 hours of AIR BRAKE theory, then 24 hrs.' behind the wheel. Then 24 hrs. of MECHANICAL HYDRAULIC PICKER training, plus another 16 hrs. of Hoisting and Rigging, with a Two hr. written exam.

Bob...
 
Got mine in ND at age 14. There was no driving school. Been driving since I was age 11, hauling grain to the elevator 3 miles away with a 1929 International truck.
 
Hey Brian,I took my drivers Ed class my senior yr also in 58-59 just to have another credit. Didnt hurt me a bit.

Dont remember the car that we drove though.

Now I quess everyone pretty well know our age.
 
No drivers training when I got my licenses in 1965. Got a 90 day learner's permit when I turned 16 and did my permanent license test a couple months later. Like every farm boy had been driving tractors since I was 5 years old and trucks sometime later.

Re bad drivers, my Dad's favourite saying was "Where did he get his drivers license, from the Sears catalog?"

JimB
 
I got my license at 14 (bought first car when I was 13). Of course I had been driving for many years at that point. Right after I turned 14 my folks made me take drivers Ed for the insurance drop. Wouldn't you know it - harvest was early that year. I had to leave class early each day to start driving trucks to the elevator. Seemed like a dumb thing then and now.
 
We had driver's ed in high school. Most students took it their sophomore year, but I was just old enough, and my Dad knew who to talk to, so I was able to take it as a freshman. As the youngest student in the class, I was the last to take the 'behind the wheel' portion of the class, though. That was in the spring of '89, so I had to wait a couple months to get my actual license. Passed the actual driving test at the DMV on the first try...which was almost unheard of with the lady who worked there at the time. But like others have mentioned, I'd been driving tractor for about a decade at that point, and cars and pickups for at least three years.
 
I grew up in town and took driver's ed. in high-school. I watched the movies themed on safe following distance and had to do the assigned calculations on stopping distance at various speeds. Now, I take care of people, many with their spines ruined for life from causing rear-end, auto-collisions. I do not follow close and when I see brake lights, however far ahead, my foot goes on the break pedal. My wife will urge me to move up, close the distance, as though following closer will get us to our destination sooner. My wife grew up on a farm and learned about driving on rural roads. She didn't take driver's ed., follows close, cannot be convinced to back off and applies the breaks when she feels it's time. The only thing which keeps her out of the hospital is dumb luck and the skill of drivers around her. I'm not comfortable in the car when she's driving (sometimes, just plain scared) and I'm always relieved when she gets home intact. I feel better for writing this. I know people who took driver's ed. will follow close and are casual with the break pedal, but she never had it drilled into her and I can't talk to her about it. She just won't have it.
 
Don't think it was ever offered when I was in school. I left school at end of May and did not turn 16 untill 4 days after school started in fall. Got my temp permit on my 16th birthday, licence following spring, then the what at that time passed for commercial on 18th birthday. Never heard about insurance discount. Late 50's.
 
Driver's Ed from the old Coach/PE instructor summer of 1979. I was 14. The first session that summer got brand new Chevy Novas to drive, some prankster drained all the oil overnight and all the engines were destroyed. My session got leftover State of Michigan auction vehicles to drive. Having been driving for farm purposed for years, like most of you, I was pretty proficient. The instructor made me a deal, run the figure eight cone course backwards to "clep" out of parking lot driving. He chose the 1966 Ford Country Squire station wagon as my test rig- possibly 40 feet long. I pulled it off, and got to ride along with the other kids at the passenger controls. Doesn't seem like such a bonus today as it did then.
 
I never took it, it was optional and I had been driving for 2 years by then. This was in 1961. First car I drove was a 1936 Dodge, first truck 1945 Ford, first tractor 1948 Allis.
 
Took DE at high school in '70. Turned 16 August '71, drove myself to the DMV early that morning before they opened so I wouldn't get caught without a licensed driver in the car!

Had a really good instructor, our vice principal. Though I had been driving a long time he taught us a lot of safe driving tactics.

I do remember the day we were doing freeway driving... The car had an extra brake pedal for the instructor. We were getting on the freeway, I was getting up to speed on the ramp, he didn't think we could make it, I was on the gas, he was on the brake! I finally gave up and went to the shoulder, told him " We really need to get together on who's going to drive this!" LOL

Another highlight was learning to change a wheel. We did it in the parking lot, just take off a rear wheel, put the spare on. Standing around for what seemed like hours watching a bunch of 15 year old's, girls included, try to figure out which end of the bumper jack went down! Finally got my turn, the kid before me had barely tightened the lugs, but all I had was a crappy factory lug wrench. Still got it jacked up, changed, jacked down and in the trunk in about 2 minutes! Instructor said he thought maybe I had done one before! LOL
 
Driving tractors and farm pick-up since about 8 years old. Took D.E. in '67 at age 15 when summer evening courses were offered at high school I attended. Did road training that same summer but instructor rarely had me drive as he saw I was already experienced because he knew I had been driving tractors and farm pick-up since about 8 years old. He signed me off with scarcely any time behind wheel with him. Drove school bus during junior and senior years in high school. All bus drivers were students then.
 
In 79 I turned 16 in August so when school started I was in DE class at school. I never got to drive much in class because my teacher knew I could drive. That was one advantage of baling hay for your teacher and using his equipment to move hay, He could not back up with hay on a truck or trailer or wagon that was my job to do the driving. There is something about farm kids learning to drive at an early age, By the time we got our liesens we could drive and had that wild crazy streak was already gone and it was just another day to drive. Bandit
 
There is one state, I think it's Georgia you have to take a driving class every time you re-new your license. It's both classroom and driving.
 
(quoted from post at 11:35:54 01/29/16) at what year or area did you go to driving school, got my license in 1972 never went to driving school.
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I took drivers ed in school in 1972. I learned to drive in 1966 when I was 8 years old driving the truck hauling hay.
 
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