Driving Regulations
... a driver’s education course. This course should be an intense class to help prepare students for the responsibility that they will be facing in the future. Students will be required to maintain a valid learners permit until they reach the age of eighteen and they are allowed to test for their license. This allows new drivers two and a half years of practice time so that they will be good drivers once they are released out onto the road without the supervision of an adult. During the period of time in which a student obtains a learner’s permit, they will be required to also take part in a defensive driving course before they will be allowed to test for their license at eighteen. Such a defensive driving course will teach students how to deal with hazards of both the road and the car so that they may be better able to deal with them if they were to occur in a real life situation in addition to giving them hands on experience with things like changing a tire, the oil, and the break fluid, things that are not taught in the normal drivers education class. The skills that each new driver will obtain while taking the defensive driving course will help to ensure their safety, and the safety of others, when they’re out on the road. Today, students are required to complete fifty hours of logged drive time in an approximately six to twelve month period before they may obtain their license. Because teenagers will now have two and a half years before they may receive their license, it is not implausible to request that they complete one hundred and fifty hours of drive time and that they must show proof of it when arriving at the DMV to test for their license. Such a requirement will insure that ...