A 14-year-old girl in Guttenberg, Iowa, works with her driver’s education instructor. Several other states are allowing teens to get their licenses without having to take a road test.Jessica Reilly Telegraph Herald via The Associated Press
Teens across the country waiting anxiously to get their driver’s licenses were disappointed when most state motor vehicle departments suspended road testing for weeks—and sometimes for months—after the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March.
While many states have since returned to road testing, several others have opted to waive that requirement and allow teens to get their license anyway, at least for a time.
That’s only fair, state officials say. The teens typically have completed many hours of classroom instruction and supervised driving time. They need a license to get to jobs and help their families by running errands. In some states, new drivers ages 18 and over also can get waivers. The biggest impact, though, is on teenagers, since among new drivers, they take most of the road tests.
The road test is the most basic measure of someone’s competency to drive an automobile and let’s scrap that.
We are run by complete morons in government.
Now we will see more teenagers dying. I have a lot of friends that lost their loved ones due to car accidents at a young age. They do not have the experience to drive automobiles and this will kill more.