When can you first apply for a learner's license in your country/state? Not sure about this, but states in the US and provinces in Canada have different requirements for you to be eligible to acquire your learner's license.
In Missouri, its so easy to get your learners license. At 15, you take a test of common sense questions, and if you pass, you get to drive. I mean, questions are like "What do you do when you get to a stop sign?" so its really easy to pass which explains the bad drivers I guess. Then you can drive with your parents until you're 16, where you can get your drivers license. To get the license, you have to actually pass a driving test which is more difficult and most people fail the first time. I barley passed.
If you're talking about the actual drivers license, it's 16 in Tennessee. We have to get 60 hours of driving in and hold our permit for 6 months before we can get it though. I get my license in September.
It's 16 for us. If you do driving school, you have to wait 8 months from when you first get your permit. If not, you wait a full year. I've had my permit since July 14th, 2004, meaning I'm eligible to get my full license on July 14th, 2005 (eight months after my 16th birthday, ). Too bad Dad won't let me drive without driving school under my belt, so it looks like September for me because I'll be busy with work. Funny you ask this question. My father is Registrar of Motor Vehicles for all of Newfoundland. My permit has his signature in the bottom corner.
Missouri doesnt require driving school. That means, at 15, you can get your permit and never, ever get behind the wheel of a car for a year, and when you turn 16, take your test and if you pass (doubtful) you get your license. Kind of a scary thought. Although my parents let me drive with them all the time when I had my permit, and I took drivers education in high school. But Drivers ed doesnt count as driving school, as some of the topics we learned in that class were that its fun to hit squirrels and the various hand signals you can use on the road, but not the ones for left, right, and stop if you get my drift Damn I loved that class