When someone turns 16, they can get a permit, which means they can drive with parental permission, and after a year, they can get a driving test done in front of a tutor. The tutor grades skill as well as potential red flags, and you get your license after a few weeks of passing grades. And then you have joined the driving community.
However, in the very rural areas here, I’ve seen field workers let their very young teens drive, like some aren’t even in high school yet. Definitely not legal, but it’s normal and hasn’t led to any issues yet.
Here it’s more like a forgotten law than a freedom. It’s typically the farming families sending their kids (or more frequently their nieces/nephews/wards, most people here didn’t give birth to their own kids) on the trucks to carry supplies. Police are probably aware but it comes up very infrequently, it’s one of those “redneck toughguy maturity stereotype” things for a lack of a better way to explain. I assume public roads are involved, but that status for roads is very relative here unless you’re talking about city highways. All this I learned as classmates of my school system who weren’t too urban would brag all the time that “I’m years ahead of you” and stuff when people took their driver’s tests.
When someone turns 16, they can get a permit, which means they can drive with parental permission, and after a year, they can get a driving test done in front of a tutor. The tutor grades skill as well as potential red flags, and you get your license after a few weeks of passing grades. And then you have joined the driving community.
However, in the very rural areas here, I’ve seen field workers let their very young teens drive, like some aren’t even in high school yet. Definitely not legal, but it’s normal and hasn’t led to any issues yet.
Netherlands right?
You can drive at any age as long as you’re not on the public roads, technically.
Here it’s more like a forgotten law than a freedom. It’s typically the farming families sending their kids (or more frequently their nieces/nephews/wards, most people here didn’t give birth to their own kids) on the trucks to carry supplies. Police are probably aware but it comes up very infrequently, it’s one of those “redneck toughguy maturity stereotype” things for a lack of a better way to explain. I assume public roads are involved, but that status for roads is very relative here unless you’re talking about city highways. All this I learned as classmates of my school system who weren’t too urban would brag all the time that “I’m years ahead of you” and stuff when people took their driver’s tests.