I know very little about driving but I think its a great idea to do a 10 day course as you still remember everything you learnt. You should pass easily but good luck all the same!

Good luck Jeanie! We'll be keeping our fingers crossed for you!!

I can drive a little, If it were an emergency I could drive, my first driving experience was pretty decent. My only word of advice is, practise makes perfect, if i had enough time and space to practise i'd get the hang of it nay bother. Im sure you know that like but yeah bon chance and good luck :P

I ROCK!!! WHOOHOO!!

So is that, you've passed then?

so now you can drive ALONE ??



It's a bit weird... In France we have to take at least 20 lessons of 1 hour, after having passed the "Code de la route" (~ road code) to know all the rules, pannels etc... And then after that, you can drive 3000km with your parents if you want before trying to get your license. If you do so, then you have a 6 points license (instead of 12 points) for only 2 years, instead of 3. When you do a crime, you've got points taken off your license, they come back 3 years after. If you don't have any points left, the police takes your license...



So 10 days of learning and then driving alone seems very... unsafe...

Well , it's done by the official dutch driving school , and it works! And it's also about 20 hours all togheter , you drive all day togheter with another student...and you can ONLY do the exams after you passed the Road Code as you call it. We dont have that 3000km parents thing , but for the rest it's all very similar. If it would be unsafe the official driving school wouldn't be able to do it i guess. Plus , in France 130 km/h is the maximum. In Holland 120 km/h....Not that it makes much difference , but anyway :P



But yeah i passed , i'm very happy!

Jeanie Escribi�:

Well , it's done by the official dutch driving school , and it works! And it's also about 20 hours all togheter , you drive all day togheter with another student...and you can ONLY do the exams after you passed the Road Code as you call it. We dont have that 3000km parents thing , but for the rest it's all very similar. If it would be unsafe the official driving school wouldn't be able to do it i guess. Plus , in France 130 km/h is the maximum. In Holland 120 km/h....Not that it makes much difference , but anyway :P



But yeah i passed , i'm very happy!

yeah, in fact it's quite the same... And in France I think letting people drive after only 20 - 30 jours is pretty unsafe :-/

Congrats Jeanie!! 8)

Yeah, congrats Jeanie, I'll make sure I look both ways when crossing the street in Holland now ;-)

GET OFF THE SIDEWALKS, JEANIE'S DRIVIN'!!!!

yeh congrats jeanie, here i got you a car











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HAHAHAHAAH X-D X-D X-D

I love it !!



Thanks ya'll!

Congrats Jeanie!!





I still dont have my license, I dont have the balls to do the exam. :-//

in canada you have to have your Learners lisesense for a year and that means you must drive with an adult who has thier full license then after a year you can go in for your Novice license but to get that you must do a road test with a instructor . iv had my l for a year but i have only gone driving 10-15 times and i dont think i will be able to pass the test :'(

It's been so long since I've had my license that I don't know all the new rules that have been set forth for the younger generation.



We had driver's education in high school which was for half a semester (the other half of the semester being health ed). We basically went over the rules of the road, took all kinds of tests, did the simulators, then had hands on behind-the-wheel training with the class instructor (that was a frightening experience). We took a final written test to get the permit, then had to clock... I think it was 25 hours... behind the wheel driving with our parents or a driving school. Once we hit 16 years old and as long as we could provide proof of insurance we could get our driver's license. From what I understand now there are all sorts of different steps that have to be taken just to get the full license. I didn't get mine until I was almost 18 and was making the money to pay for my insurance which was really high.



Kind of scarey but in less than 8 years my son will be in the running to get his learner's permit. 8O I am so unprepared for that moment.

DJ Dance Escribi�:

in canada you have to have your Learners lisesense for a year and that means you must drive with an adult who has thier full license then after a year you can go in for your Novice license but to get that you must do a road test with a instructor . iv had my l for a year but i have only gone driving 10-15 times and i dont think i will be able to pass the test :'(

Each province has different rules. In Manitoba, when I got my license, you could get your learner's (enabling you to drive with an adult in the car) by passing a written test when you reach 15 1/2. The written test is so easy as to suggest your average pastry could pass it.



At 16 you go for the road test with an instructor, which basically consists of about 10 minutes of driving followed by 3 chances to successfully parallel park your vehicle. After that you were fully licensed.



Since then they've introduced a graduated licensing system which I don't even begin to understand. What I do know is: curfews, no alcohol in your system at all, passenger restrictions, etc. for the first couple years.

ive got rage at the moment - i had 2 new housemates move in a few months ago, then one of them said he wanted to leave, and now the other fucker wants to leave as well }:-)



useless slack bastards never got jobs and ran up loads of debt with their banks and parents and are now running home to mummy.



im just gonna get a place on my own i think, cant be dealing with unreliable people anymore.



:(

mipps, I feel your pain - roomie situations like that suck! I'm sorry you are stuck in such a crappy dilemma. Having roommates can be good in many cases but in my opinion, after time and largely depending on the people you're living with, the downsides end up outweighing any upsides there are to sharing living quarters. Who needs other peoples' financial drama when you've got your own back to cover.

Darkstarexodus Escribi�:

DJ Dance Escribi�:

in canada you have to have your Learners lisesense for a year and that means you must drive with an adult who has thier full license then after a year you can go in for your Novice license but to get that you must do a road test with a instructor . iv had my l for a year but i have only gone driving 10-15 times and i dont think i will be able to pass the test :'(

Each province has different rules. In Manitoba, when I got my license, you could get your learner's (enabling you to drive with an adult in the car) by passing a written test when you reach 15 1/2. The written test is so easy as to suggest your average pastry could pass it.



At 16 you go for the road test with an instructor, which basically consists of about 10 minutes of driving followed by 3 chances to successfully parallel park your vehicle. After that you were fully licensed.



Since then they've introduced a graduated licensing system which I don't even begin to understand. What I do know is: curfews, no alcohol in your system at all, passenger restrictions, etc. for the first couple years.

Eek, all this talk reminds me that I have to get my permit in the next two weeks to be driving at 16.