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Strict graduated driving licence program. How it compares?

Locut0s

Locut0s

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So as a brand new driver I've been wondering how our very strict graduated licence program here in BC compares with other places. I know many other provinces in Canada if not all of them have similar programs but I'm lead to believe that most states in the US are no wear near as strict. Here is how our program works:

The way it works is that you have to pass a written test to get your learners licences. With the learners license you have several restrictions. You can't drive after midnight, you have to have a supervisor with you who is over 25 yrs old and holds a valid license, you have to display a "L" sign clearly on your car to show you are a learner. After ONE YEAR of this you take your first drivers licence test. If you pass that you graduate to the "N" stage where the restrictions are not as sever and you don't have to have a supervisor. Now you have to display an N, novice, sign on the back of your car. You have to drive at this stage for 2 YEARS before you are allowed to take your final road test and get your full license.

http://www.icbc.com/licensing/lic_getlic_undglp.asp

I'm 27 and just starting to drive as of this week, well last week. And even I have to follow this program. However I am waived the mandatory 1 year wait at the L stage because I held a learners license some years back. I think all the rest is the same though.

Are there states with similar programs?
 
In Michigan, you take your driving class with written test and you must drive like 50 hours with a parent or guardian, then you must attend another 14-ish hours of class before you are permitted to take a road test to get your license. At that point you have restrictions (can't drive after midnight, can't have more than two people in the car... etc.) until you turn 18, when it is eased off.
 
ussfletcher said:
In Michigan, you take your driving class with written test and you must drive like 50 hours with a parent or guardian, then you must attend another 14-ish hours of class before you are permitted to take a road test to get your license. At that point you have restrictions (can't drive after midnight, can't have more than two people in the car... etc.) until you turn 18, when it is eased off.
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Well if you get your license early then that is similar and the mandate that you take classes is in some ways even stricter as the program we have here doesn't necessitate any type of formal lessons really.
 
In IL you take a 50 question written test with common sense questions like what do you do at a stop sign?

Then you take a 20 minute road course, which is basically around a small subdivision near me and a stop light.

Of course I got my license when I was 18 so I bypassed the 50 hour behind the wheel requirement.



The test is damn easy, of course driving is as well as long as you are not mentally challenged like 60% of drivers on the road.



Time to go do some donuts now in front of a cop,
 
I took a 5 question test to get my permit in NY, the normal test is 20 questions when i took the 5 question one is was in some test period for the 5 question one which didn't get approved.

If you are at least 16 you can take your road test that day if you schedule it right

you have to take zero class, zero anything its simply pass test + be at least 16 + pass road test

* it might have changed this was 12 years ago
 
Anubis said:
I took a 5 question test to get my permit in NY, the normal test is 20 questions when i took the 5 question one is was in some test period for the 5 question one which didn't get approved.

If you are at least 16 you can take your road test that day if you schedule it right

you have to take zero class, zero anything its simply pass test + be at least 16 + pass road test

* it might have changed this was 12 years ago
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Yeah I thought this was the norm for most states, compares to the 3 year affair we have here. Of course I do feel that our program does help promote safety. The graduated program we have here is about oh 10 years or more old now. I remember a time though before that when we had a system much like that one.
 
WOAH

Everyone knows Cali is the most commie place to drive but having to post signs on your car to let others know about your driving skill??? That's retarded.
 
in alberta you get your learners at 14 then your GDL at 16 and at 18 you take one more test that gives you a full license (basically all demerits no other restrictions before hand) all of them are very easy and require no skill to pass, I know people that got alberta licenses so they would not deal with the BC rules (all in uni)
 
Locut0s said:
What kind of program do you have in Cali?
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In Cali you can't drive after midnight either and need someone over 25 as well. You also can't have anyone under 18 with you at all unless there's someone 25 with you for a year. This is all only if you're under 18.

That really sucks that you have to deal with crap like that when you're 27.
 
zerocool84 said:
In Cali you can't drive after midnight either and need someone over 25 as well. You also can't have anyone under 18 with you at all unless there's someone 25 with you for a year. This is all only if you're under 18.

That really sucks that you have to deal with crap like that when you're 27.
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Meh doesn't bother me. You see plenty of new drivers older than me with L and N signs on their cars. Besides age doesn't have a huge amount to do with your skills, it's all about practice practice practice and experience.
 
man, you put it off for a long time eh?

i see you got your L waived luckily, since they doubled the duration since i took it

once you get the N though there's really no difference except the 0 alcohol content and 1 passenger.

the one thing you might have missed out though, is the icbc insurance discount. i think it starts counting from the moment you get your N so a lot of people your age already have 43% off. unless they speed like me.
 
I started driving when i was 14. My Father and Grandfather owned a couple car lots and i would drive cars between them. Also my mother had serious health issues (cervical cancer) and i was driving her to doctor visits etc. The police in the area knew it and i never got in trouble. Granted this was like 20 years ago.


When i got my license i had to take a semester of Drivers Ed and pass it with a B (i think it was a B). We drove twice a week so by the end everyone had a lot of hours. At the end of the semester if you were over 16 you took the test at school and took a card into the DMV and just got the actual license.

a few years ago the district canceled the Drivers Ed class. Now you need like 50 hours of driving before you get the license and then you can only have 1 person (none-family) in the car an limited hours that you are allowed to drive. At 18 you get the full license without restrictions.
 
It's similar where I am (Ontario). I do remember some of the literature in the study guide talking about the N sign, but it was optional, I don't recall the L sign. We always joked about the N sign saying it stood for noob. 😛
 
In Florida you have to pass a written test to get your learner's permit which you must have for 1 year with no infractions. If you get an infraction your year starts over. You can't drive alone or after 11PM (I think) and your passenger must be a licensed driver over 21. After a year you take a second written test and then a driving test. If you pass you get your license. If you take a Driver's Education class in high school I believe you get to bypass the second written test and driving test so long as you passed the class (which has multiple written and driving tests). Things could have changed but this is how things were done around 2001/2002.

I learned to drive when I was seven years old out in a corn field in my uncle's truck. My father and my uncle taught me.
 
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