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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of states have graduated licensing laws for under 18 year olds. Why go through all that crap of having a junior learners permit, junior license, etc, when you can just stroll into the DMV at 18 and get your full license?

Plus you don’t have to spend time and money on drivers ed, behind the wheel, logging driving hours, and then waiting around for a ridiculous court ceremony. [/quote]

+1   This is the basic calculus many kids are making (at least in NoVA).  The rewards aren't worth the benefit.  They get school driver's ed sophomore year which doesn't have behind the wheel.  They have to schedule and pay for a driving school plus do all the parent hours to get a crappy half-assed license and their parents' insurance goes up.   They STILL can't legally go out driving with their friends with their license (which is all they really want it for anyway) until they are 18, so why bother?[/quote]

I'm pretty sure you have to show proof of driver's ed if you are an adult, correct?[/quote]

Yes. 
If you are age 18 or older, and you have never held a driver's license issued by Virginia, another state, a U.S. territory, or foreign country, or cannot show proof that you previously held such a license, you must show proof that:

you have passed an approved driver education course, or,
[b]you have held a learner's permit at least 60 days before taking the DMV road skills test[/b].[/quote]

This is the out for kids--they get the basic driver's ed course in school (which has no road skills) get the permit that allows them to drive supervised with their parent --crazily without having to be added to insurance--though we did up liability coverage on auto and umbrella then) and then just hold on to the permit.  [/quote]

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