How old were you when you started driving for the first time?

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Nervous-Trash3763@reddit

Started learning when I was late 31 and passed when I was early 32.

Absolutely kicked myself for not learning sooner because I LOVE driving.

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cooreeuss@reddit

Mid 20s then stopped learning now getting my licence at 31 hopefully maybe 32

Tbh driving something that never interested me

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Neuvirths_Glove@reddit

My mom's brother took me out and taught me to drive a stick shift Chevy Monza and his Kawasaki motorcycle.

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Charlie_Hustler@reddit

My dad used to take me out to some backroads that had little cars and no cops. He'd yell at me when I did something wrong, and it was always kinda scary going out with him, but I learned lol

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Fresh_Distribution54@reddit

The very first time I drove around a parking lot I was 8 years old.

First time I started driving by myself in the car was I want to say 13 but it might have been 14. But it was on a farm

Drove an ambulance at 15 but it was a race track

Started driving on actual roads legally at 16

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belleinaballgown@reddit

16, and my full license at 21, but I only recently had need to get my first car and to drive more regularly, at age 31.

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RangerMatt4@reddit

First time 14 but I got my license right at 16.

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ShesATragicHero@reddit

Legally? 15.

Lots of dubious “practice” before that.

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Foxlen@reddit

Legally 14 yo , but I drove a little bit before

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Yep it was a rite of passage! Once all my friends had a full license we would all pile into one car and drive all over town & county. We learned tricks from each other. I short order we all learned to drive and navigate very well!

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leemcmb@reddit

15 1/2, which is when we could get a permit and take drivers Ed. Sophmore in high school.

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perfectly_ballanced@reddit

16 on the roads, but I've been hooking up trailers since around 9 or 10, and riding atv's and snowmobiles for about as long as I could walk

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DrIvoKintobor@reddit

i was racing go karts in 2nd grade... so 7 or so? i'd driven yard-karts and a moped around a friend's yard for a while before that... so i'd say like 6 years old or so?

driving a car? i sat on my dad's lap holding the wheel when i was a baby... sitting in the passenger's seat holding the wheel maybe at 5 or so... drove part way home from a friend's place starting at maybe 10?

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jabber1990@reddit

17

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BoxerDaddy1@reddit

Ibwas driving cross country when I was 11. So my dad could nap in the drivers seat.

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xmrlewis1x@reddit

Around 12-13, use to sneak out at night and take my moms car out with friends, cruising around, to parties etc, then got busted one night, and mom is legally blind and couldn't see good enough to drive anymore so she has me drive whenever we needed to go somewhere, grocery shopping, Dr appointments, etc.

Then one day in driver's ed was my turn to drive, I believe it was after the reverse test, my drivers ed instructor says to me hmm looks like you've driven before, said yep told him about my mom being legally blind then tells me I don't need to come back until the final exam, the 2 girls in the back need all the extra time they need 😂

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funkcatbrown@reddit

Go karts.

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xtalgeek@reddit

Age 9. 3 on the column overseas. Our driver thought it would be amusing to teach me to drive to school. (Parents not so amused). Legally, as soon as I could get a permit/license, maybe 15-16? Before that I rode mini bikes to run a large paper route too large to serve with a bicycle.

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bmdc@reddit

First time I drove I was sitting in my dad's lap just steering the van. We had a big chunk of property when I was 15, so my dad would let me rip his old Datsun 5-speed around the yard periodically. I didn't get my actual license until I was 18.

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Moist-Share7674@reddit

Holy shit! A Datsun B210 was the conveyance I learned to drive in. 5 speed as well and several of our crowd learned to drive (and shift!) using that car. Props to the clutch in it, the thing got abused for sure but never failed. I was 15 at the time I took the seat and got decent enough my friend who owned it let me take it off campus for lunch every day. Didn’t get my license for another 9 months or so.

Man, a B210. An ugly hatchback sorta looking thing that was a medium blue and back then it was the shit! We could drive! This was the mid 80s btw.

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bmdc@reddit

They were, in my opinion absolute dog shit turds back in the day, but with how unique and desirable simple rear wheel drive stick shift cars are nowadays, I really wish I would have kept it.

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Comprehensive_Fan140@reddit

As soon as i could see over the dash

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driverman42@reddit

11

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Lower_Ad_8973@reddit

32

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Past-Apartment-8455@reddit

Twelve that my parents didn't know about 15 when they were in the car.

My grandmother, who always seems to get all four wheels off the ground after topping a hill decided to let me have the wheel when my sister and I were visiting. Since they were farmers, they saw nothing unusual about a twelve year old driving anything from a tractor, farm truck or anything else with wheels. And the first words:

'You are driving too fast!'

Yes, the same woman who would slide around all the corners and others were generally scared of her driving, I started out by shocking even her. And never slowed down.

Which lead me to a theory that the speed gene skips a generation. My adult daughter drives under the speed limit and yet she and her husband end up getting stopped by the cops more than me.

Might have something to do with her 'custom' paint job.

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Justoldme2@reddit

I was maybe 14, I would take my mom’s car when they went out.

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Familiar-Nothing8871@reddit

19

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ganjsmokr@reddit

Brought up on a farm. Started driving around the farm alone at 12. Had a school permit and drove 5 miles to town daily at 14.

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_eg0_@reddit

11 on a private roads.

16 doing my drivers license with an instructor.

17 "supervised" driving.

18 officially the first time driving alone.

20 first time I startet to frequently drive and had my own car.

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_eg0_@reddit

11 on a private roads.

16 doing my drivers license with an instructor.

17 "supervised" driving.

18 officially the first time driving alone.

20 first time I startet to frequently drive and had my own car.

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the_Bryan_dude@reddit

My dad taught me to drive when I was 11. We were taking a trip from Maryland to California. He wanted to make sure I could drive the car if something happened to him. It was a manual transmission.

I got my drives permit at 15 and license 3 days after my 16th birthday. Starting driving alone that night, 1985.

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Dou_170@reddit

16.

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fiblesmish@reddit

legally: 17ys

on farm roads 12-13yrs

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Life-Masterpiece-161@reddit

Same here.

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E5evo@reddit

Disused quarry for me, aged 12-13. (Me, not the quarry)

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xczechr@reddit

16 - I got my license as soon as I was able.

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375InStroke@reddit

My car, on streets, 15. I drove to driver's ed.

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g1Razor15@reddit

18

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golfguy1985@reddit

I was 18

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Moist_Rule9623@reddit

My grandfather had me in lumber yards and office/industrial parks on Sundays starting at 12-13, basically anyplace that was reliably empty.

By the winter I was 14, since we spent a good amount of time in relatively rural New Hampshire, he started to let me go out on actual roads. These were the things you could get away with in the 80s (actually in rural NH you probably still can)

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Sea_Candidate8738@reddit

16

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SabreToothKyatt@reddit

15

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lilrudegurl33@reddit

like legally? 15 w/a permit 16 w/dr lic

but as anything motorized: maybe 11,12ish. Mopeds, dirt bikes, tractors, skid steers, farm trucks. Learned manual driving before automatics

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Shadowdane@reddit

15 with learners permit, 16 with a license.

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CockroachCommon2077@reddit

6 or something. Called Mario Kart Dash

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vengedwrath@reddit

I used to steal the keys to my sister’s car at 16, idk how I had the balls to do that cause I could’ve been banned from getting my licence till 21 💀

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Millkstake@reddit

14

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i_imagine@reddit

14

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Lazy_Cauliflower_278@reddit

Really

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Tobazz@reddit

15 driving automatic, 22 I bought my first manual car

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SenorCardgay@reddit

Got my permit at 16, but didn't get my license till 18 because I didn't care all that much. Which is funny because now I regularly go to the track because driving is the greatest thing ever.

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RealisticResource226@reddit

I believe 19

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Tall-Poem-6808@reddit

About 8 years old, driving an auto.

First on my father's lap, then pretty soon on my own, pulling and backing up trailers, driving "offroad" (not rock climbing, just forest trails and fields), etc...

First real lesson at 16 for the equivalent of my learner's license when you need an adult to drive with you for 2 years, the inspector actually knocked off a few points off of my initial assessment when I told him I have been driving for 8 years already. Bad habits and all, probably.

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AffectionateThought@reddit

14 but I didn't get my license till 37.

I was too scared to get it as an adult and only got it because it was a requirement before you can get a motorcycle license. To any older people who don't think they can drive I just want to say go to a class. You will not regret it.

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aoumour@reddit

Got my permit at 15 but didn't really start practicing and got my license at 19

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trexalou@reddit

Legally with a permit…15

Sitting on my aunts lap steering her car on the interstate?….. about 8 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Sparky_Zell@reddit

3 wheeler at like 8 or 9, go cart at 10, dirt bike at 13, and actual car on the road 15.

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willyjeep1962@reddit

11 first time behind wheel & moving vehicle 13 drove fields & country roads 14 50-mile weekly commute drive w mother

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Hot-Use-3405@reddit

I started practicing, when I was like 17-18, but my full license at 36 I think 🤷‍♂️

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trixicat64@reddit

about 17, by the time i made my drivers license the legal age limit for driving was at 18, so you could start learning for your license at the age of 17, do your theoretical exam 3 month before your 18th birthday and the practical exam 1 month before your birthday. (i did the practical exam a bit earlier, as i moved 3 weeks before my birthday to another city)

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Live_Region9581@reddit

16