All-Star Please Drive Safely!

[NEliteSteven]

XtremeWpg This will sound terrible, but I will see your beaver, and raise you a raccoon on top of a beaver. I kid you not. It completely jacked up my car. One time my brother and I hit a wild turkey on the way to school, too. It flew up on our windshield. Ugh.

 

[BuegeSmalls]

In WI you have I take the drivers Ed class, starting when your 15 1/2 and then have your temps for 6 months. I've had a lot of friends that had failed the drivers test a few times but I passed. Ony one point off (: ---which was totally crazy. I think he just didn't want to give me a perfect score.

 

[XtremeWpg]

XtremeWpg This will sound terrible, but I will see your beaver, and raise you a raccoon on top of a beaver. I kid you not. It completely jacked up my car. One time my brother and I hit a wild turkey on the way to school, too. It flew up on our windshield. Ugh.

I've also hit a badger. Those will mess up an undercarriage something awful. My sister has hit an owl, and a deer ran into my moms car. Full tilt into the side of it.

 

[NEliteSteven]

I've also hit a badger. Those will mess up an undercarriage something awful. My sister has hit an owl, and a deer ran into my moms car. Full tilt into the side of it.

Right? I never realized Owls were so big, either. The raccoon riding on the beavers back was just a mass of bad luck. Nobody believes me when I tell them.

 

[12mowerd]

the only animal you should swerve for is a moose! Theres so many of them in Maine. They're about 6 feet tall to the shoulder and if u hit that thing in a car it will fly through the windshield and crush you! It happens a lot where I live and its really scary. Id rather hit a solid oak tree going 60 than a moose.

 

[TheVipersMom]

In Tennessee I think you get a permit at 15 and license at 16.

I drove for a long time without my license because my daddy bought me a brand new car and i never got a permit so I just waited till I was old enough to get a license without a permit. My parents knew I was a good driver so they let me drive although I didn't have my license.

While your in 10th grade at my high school you could take drivers Ed for a class. I believe the first 6 weeks it was a structured class where they taught you the rules of the road. Then the rest of it you were assigned to a group of 3 and you had an assigned day you drove every week. Our school was close to the Nissan plant so we were sponsored with cars, at that time we had 1 Maxima and the rest Altimas. They were all brand new!!! It was like 4 football coaches who taught drivers Ed. At that time we had the best football team in the state and in the largest division.
The head coach was my teacher so of course we always got to drive the maxima. My teacher was the coolest because we didn't have to go do the things all the others did we just ran his errands for him. We picked up food, returned movies to blockbuster, dropped his son off at daycare and he would always make me late to 3rd period! I loved drivers Ed it was probably one of my favorite classes! I think every school should offer it:)

 

[TinyBlondie15]

The rules are very lax here in Florida as SmileCat said. Drivers Ed: optional. Permit test: online and have to be 15. License test: So easy that so many people I know that are so.. how do I put this nicely... out of it and so into their phones that if they know how to do those things they can pass and you have to be 16. You can get your license without getting your permit (if you pass the test) at 18.

 

[cheerheart4life]

Wow in GA you have to pass the permit test to get a permit at 15. But before the permit, you must have taken a driving education class. Then to get your license, you have to take drivers Ed online (about $35 and takes FOREVER) or take a $400 course that lasts 2 weeks. It's insane. The driving test isn't terrible though! The worst part is the cranky graders.

 

[mattiemill]

I'm 17 but because I dont live in the states I dont have any sort of permit yet but this summer my sister and I are trying to get it in NE, from what it looks like you have to take a written test and a vision test to get your permit then you need to have it for a year (unless your 18) and drive a certain number of miles before you take the test to get your license and that test includes a written test and a driving test.

 

[cheergal900]

In Pennsylvania, at least where I live, you have to be 16 to get your permit. That includes a vision test and the actual test on the computers. If you et 3 questions wrong you fail and I believe there are 15 questions but I could be wrong. You must have your permit for 6 months before you can go for your license. You do not have to take drivers Ed....my school doesn't even have it.

As far as the drivers test goes, let's just say I'm glad my dad taught me well or I would not be safe on the road. Other than parallel parking, the test was very basic. I pulled out of the driving center, drove to a stop sign, turned left, went a little bit up the road, pulled into a parking lot and went back. It worries me that the test was that easy because people who are not ready to drive on their own can easily pass the test, as long as they can parallel park.

 

[gofriars610]

12mowerd you're supposed to stop slightly and plow into the moose to flip it over...

In Maine you take drivers ed at 15, and you get a permit at the conclusion of it provided you pass the test. You must have a permit for 6 months, complete 40 hours of driving (some at night) and turn 16 before you can send in for your drivers test. Once you pass the road test, you cannot drive with friends or after midnight for 180 days. After that you're good to go.

And yes, the driver's ed class in Maine includes a lesson on how to safely hit large animals. Although I'm 90% sure that if I ever saw a moose in the road I'd probably completely lose my mind and forget everything I learned.

 

[InfinitiElite]

I wish they spoke about how to safely hit an animal when I took drivers ed! I grew up in Long Island, New York where there aren't too many large animals you can hit so they didn't cover that. Then I moved to a little further upstate (into deer territory...lol) and my father freaked out and traded in my sports car for an SUV. One night driving to get Starbucks in between classes I went over a hill and came up close and personal with a huge freaking deer! I didn't know it was there, so I just plowed right into it! I pretty much totaled my truck, but I was ok since I was in a monstrosity gas guzzler, but the cop said that if I had seen the deer and attempted to stop I would have probably ended up getting hurt, but because I drove through the deer (his words not mine) I was able to walk away from it. I think they should talk about this in every drivers ed class no matter where you live, because you don't know where you may end up!

Kris10boo I'm with you with drivers ed being my favorite class also....I drove around for a while with nothing and actually drove myself to drivers ed! (athletes had a special drivers ed sat morning before football games) I got to take us to the beach, and to get breakfast, we had a ball!

 

[12mowerd]

12mowerd you're supposed to stop slightly and plow into the moose to flip it over...

In Maine you take drivers ed at 15, and you get a permit at the conclusion of it provided you pass the test. You must have a permit for 6 months, complete 40 hours of driving (some at night) and turn 16 before you can send in for your drivers test. Once you pass the road test, you cannot drive with friends or after midnight for 180 days. After that you're good to go.

And yes, the driver's ed class in Maine includes a lesson on how to safely hit large animals. Although I'm 90% sure that if I ever saw a moose in the road I'd probably completely lose my mind and forget everything I learned.

Well of course if you're going slow enough, then hit the moose. but I was always taught if you can't slow down, or have enough time to react to hit your brakes and cut the wheel to hit it with the back end, then to just swerve all together haha

 

[cheerisloving]

In Tennessee I think you get a permit at 15 and license at 16.

I drove for a long time without my license because my daddy bought me a brand new car and i never got a permit so I just waited till I was old enough to get a license without a permit. My parents knew I was a good driver so they let me drive although I didn't have my license.

While your in 10th grade at my high school you could take drivers Ed for a class. I believe the first 6 weeks it was a structured class where they taught you the rules of the road. Then the rest of it you were assigned to a group of 3 and you had an assigned day you drove every week. Our school was close to the Nissan plant so we were sponsored with cars, at that time we had 1 Maxima and the rest Altimas. They were all brand new!!! It was like 4 football coaches who taught drivers Ed. At that time we had the best football team in the state and in the largest division.
The head coach was my teacher so of course we always got to drive the maxima. My teacher was the coolest because we didn't have to go do the things all the others did we just ran his errands for him. We picked up food, returned movies to blockbuster, dropped his son off at daycare and he would always make me late to 3rd period! I loved drivers Ed it was probably one of my favorite classes! I think every school should offer it:)

Sounds like my school! We have in school Drivers Ed in addition to one of our PE teachers having a separate driving school that most kids take if it doesn't fit in their scheduel to take it for the semester. Most of my friends have gotten licenses through him. He gets KIAs and another nice cars. And he actually sells them to students. One of my friends got a brand new car from him. He also is the most chill PE teacher and lets kids go to Chipotle and Mcdonalds during his class period aether his your teacher or not. I wish he was my instructor because his fun but takes it super seriously and has only one student to be in accident (he was out of school though).