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For those of you who don't live here, the Great State of New Hampshire has you drive with a parent for 20 hours before starting drivers ed, and today I did my first 4 hours. I even got all the way up to 25 miles an hour! Clear the roads!

What a stupid law. The sooner you become an educated driver, the better.

Tacz wrote:For those of you who don't live here, the Great State of New Hampshire has you drive with a parent for 20 hours before starting drivers ed, and today I did my first 4 hours. I even got all the way up to 25 miles an hour! Clear the roads!

25 hours BEFORE Driver's Ed?

Mmkay, in Maine it's like 30 hours (25 normal, 5 night) AFTER you do Driver's Ed.

*reminds herself to not drive through NH any time soon*

And have fun Tacz!

You're not allowed on the highway 'til your 15th hour. Also, you need another 15 hours after Drivers Ed to get your license.

And the law seems to work. The rate of car accidents involving drivers between 15+1/2 and 21 in New Hampshire is very low.

when i was 15 i drove the back roads in the country by myself, when i was 13 was driving farm trucks, and small tractors and bobcats for my grandapa around the farms, and when i did drivers ed, it was kinda lame, cuz i felt i knew it all, but then again, i feel i know it all about everything

That's likely because parents are scared shitless about thier kids after riding thier first 20 hours in the car with them. "No, no, turn that way! STOP! STOP THE GODDAMN CAR!"

Tacz is road roaming now?
Abandom ship!



seattle requires you get a permit, and practice with an experianced driver of, mmm, 5 years experiance or more. I've never heard of hourly reqs. I dunno about outside the seattle limits though. Actually, I'm sure its state wide, as the DMV is state related, not city centered.

I'm a badass paralel parker.
But I've once driven in oncoming trafic, and in said instance, nearly gone head on with a minivan. PHEW!

Mental Elf wrote:when i was 15 i drove the back roads in the country by myself, when i was 13 was driving farm trucks, and small tractors and bobcats for my grandapa around the farms, and when i did drivers ed, it was kinda lame, cuz i felt i knew it all, but then again, i feel i know it all about everything

Same here Mental. I started driving farm trucks when I was 10. My mom used to let me drive to town on the back roads around that age too. As for drivers ed....I got my permit at age 15½ and the day I turned 16, I was a fully licensed driver. Not sure if Washington still does that though. I never had to "log" any hours in and I only drove with my drivers ed teacher once and I also got through the class in a week. My drivers test took like 20 mins. We don't have freeways where I grew up, so we didn't have to do any of that. All I did was go around a couple blocks and parallel parked haha.

Mental Elf wrote:when i was 15 i drove the back roads in the country by myself, when i was 13 was driving farm trucks, and small tractors and bobcats for my grandapa around the farms, and when i did drivers ed, it was kinda lame, cuz i felt i knew it all, but then again, i feel i know it all about everything

Same, I was just lil hick girl in the middle of no-where. So.. wasnt much else to do.

The entire state of New Hampshire, as Google Earth will prove, is the middle of no-where

Tacz wrote:The entire state of New Hampshire, as Google Earth will prove, is the middle of no-where

Not as bad as northern Maine! *laughs*

And yea, I grew up driving trucks on our farm...I was 10 when I first started driving the hay truck.

Oh yeah??? Well my hick town was the hickiest hick town evah!! I could drive the family tractor before I could walk!! In fact...

Ok, actually not... just trying to break in on the nowheresville comparisons there. I was born and raised "in the city" (although its not a major metropolis by any stretch of the imagination).

Anyway, here in Delaware you have to do 6 hours of driving during drivers ed to get your permit. Then you do 6 months with a parent and another 6 months with a curfew (10 pm I think) and then you're a fully licensed driver.

im 19 and i havean expired leaners permit



./me is either really lazy or punk as fuck

Wait a damn second, Firia, you're in Seattle? I'm like 10 miles south of ya in Burien if so. lol I did all the driver's ed stuff before they passed the laws you're talking about.

jeeezzz! back in my day we didnt have "cars" or "tractors" we had go carts!! powered by our younger siblings!! hahahahaha, actually when i was goin through all the drivers ed, i did it in high school, my HS made it a requirement for sophomore year, so we had all drivers ed "in house" was pretty sweet, only one semester, you pass that, you hit 16 and BAM you out there causing all kinds of trouble

We never had any time requirement outside of drivers ed I don't think. That of course was required - something like 2 days a week for 4 weeks or something with an instructor in the car, driving with the parent was just for practice.

Well I must be the biggest newb then.. I only drove down the street a bit in my boyfriends car on my birthday a week ago for like... the second time ever. Scared the crap out of me and I could barely see over the wheel Gave him a laugh though.

Kyrros wrote:Wait a damn second, Firia, you're in Seattle? I'm like 10 miles south of ya in Burien if so. lol I did all the driver's ed stuff before they passed the laws you're talking about.

Well now, hiya neighbor!

If you're 24 like me and took Drivers Edu, then they cover all the prereqs from the get go. First you learn the essentual laws, then you get out on the road with an experianced person that has a break petal on their side of the car.

I'm not so sure the DMV was ever very strict about their learners permits though. I remember waltzing in with my dad (post-Drivers Edu), slinging some papers at the people, and cha-ching! I got a Learners permit.

It unfortuantely never got further than that... I didn't and don't have a car to make it worth while. ^_^;

In DK, you gotta be 18. You gotta take lessons from a government authorised driving school, you can't get your folks or anyone not governmently approved to teach you, and it'll cost you a MINIMUM of £1.200.

This is if you don't need extra lessons (10 in total I think, so you definately will... Cus they teach you shit) and pass on the first go.
Average cost is £1.500. No clue what that is in US$. But it's 15.000 Danish Crowns...

I hate you and your cheap and easy drivers liscences!... No, seriously... I do.


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