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The laws here are pretty strict. A learners permit can be earned when you're 16, and pass the visual/written test. With this, you can only drive between 5 AM and 9 PM, and must have someone over the age of 21 (with a valid drivers license) in the vehicle.

Then after 50 hours of driving, you can get your junior license, which lets you drive any time of day with someone over the age of 21 in your vehicle (with a valid drivers license). But you can drive too/from work and school alone (need proof of employment/student).

Then at 18 (or 17 if you take defensive driving classes), you can get your full license, no rules. I'm going to take some classes, so I'll get mine at 17.

Go for it man! What car have you got?

My dad owns a shitty little Ford Escort ('94 - same age as me). And my mom owns a Grand Caravan.

But we're going to buy a new vehicle here within this month. They promised to buy me something newer than an '08.

Oh nice, keep up the driving anyway and the best of luck with it!

Thanks a lot.

Nova Scotia (Eastern Canada) is much faster, I got my learners on April 20th (2 days after my birthday) and I got my fulls on August 17th.

(2010-10-12, 09:23 PM)MattRogowski Wrote: [ -> ]It seems around here you're allowed a license if you can show the instructor you know how to get in the car and start the engine.

Around here people seem to have no understanding of speed. You either get people going stupidly slow everywhere, or idiots going way too fast, overtaking everybody with the slightest gap. Of course there's then me who drives perfectly.

Sounds just like England. Don't I know it.

(2010-10-13, 01:44 AM)Jessie S. Wrote: [ -> ]Nova Scotia (Eastern Canada) is much faster, I got my learners on April 20th (2 days after my birthday) and I got my fulls on August 17th.

Over in Alberta you get your learners at 14. Now, that's scary.

Grats anyways OP.

IM still learning, only had 3 lessons so far. Same as polarbear. England has a large spectrum of drivers.

Damn, I got my provisional, and now I need to take some lessons. Anyone in the U.K recommend any good driving instructors, I was thinking BSM (RAC) or AA?