<p>And if you do, do you have your own car? How old were you?
...Another thing I'm curious about.</p>
<p>Personally, my sixteenth birthday is this September, and I shall be taking driver's ed over the summer, and getting my permit in less than a month from now. In my state, we have to have to have our permits for six months before taking our driver's license test. So I'll have my license around January.</p>
<p>I got my permit a month after turning 15 and a half (minimum age for a permit here in CA). I got my license 4 months after my 16th birthday. I don’t have my own car.</p>
<p>I got my permit two months after I turned sixteen and my license six months after that. I had a car about two months later and couldn’t be happier :)</p>
<p>Permit at 15 and 4 months (min age here is 15)
Got my license 14 months later. Already had an extra car (97 Corolla), and my parents said I get a new one if I get into an Ivy (not likely lol)</p>
<p>I got my permit like the day i turned fifteen and a half haha and got my license a week after my sixteenth birthday 
I drive a 1996 camry, like a boss haha.</p>
<p>I got my permit at 15 and my license at 16. I drive an '89 Mercedes</p>
<p>Got my permit when I was 16 getting my license 17 … it sucks, but oh well.</p>
<p>I got my permit when I was a couple of months from 16, last summer. I still do not have my license since I failed my test two weeks ago (and it was quite an embarrassing fail), and the local DMV is booked for the next month.</p>
<p>Life in the burbs without a car? Impossible</p>
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<p>I’m 17 and I have a license (though in my state it’s a few more months before I can drive people outside of my family). I have a car that I can drive but it’s my family’s, not “mine.”</p>
<p>I got my permit the day after I turned 15, and my license exactly a year after that. I was quite eager to be able to drive myself. My birthday is in April. I was allowed to use my dad’s truck when he went out of the country June-October, and then he bought me my own car in January, while I was still 16. I drive a 2010 Prius and she’s my baby. <3</p>
<p>I can drive…I don’t know why but I waited to do driver’s ed, did it the summer before junior year instead of asap after freshman year, but it all worked out well because I got my license right before my birthday–since it was so close, they just let me skip renewing it at 17 and I’ll just renew it at 18. So happy.</p>
<p>As for cars, I don’t have my own, but I usually drive my dad’s when I need to go somewhere. It’s kind of annoying though, that when I’m out of school and everyone else is working I’m stuck at home. Bleh.</p>
<p>I cannot drive. 
Boohoo me.</p>
<p>Getting my license today. ;)</p>
<p>Getting my permit on my 15th birthday (5 days!), then license on the day of my 16th birthday.</p>
<p>My parents said I can lease a used Mercedes C350 or C300 :)</p>
<p>I got my permit right when I could at 15 and a half and two weeks after my 16th birthday I had my license. Driving an '86 Porsche.</p>
<p>Got my license yesterday on my second attempt. I’m the last one of my friends to get licensed haha. And no car, unfortunately.</p>
<p>I got my license a few months ago, right around my 17th birthday. I got my car not long after. It’s a 2001 Acura integra, and I love it! Good luck with your license!</p>
<p>Don’t have my own car but have had my license for 7 months since my 16th birthday. So useful to drive! I probably won’t own my own car till I’m 50 (at least it feels that way with college debt looming)</p>
<p>I got my license a week after my 16th birthday. I didn’t actually start driving until I was 17. I got my first car for $250 the christmas of my 17th birthday. red '97 chevy monte carlo with 210k miles. From then until now, almost a year, I’ve put on 15k miles and it still runs like a beast haha. </p>
<p>being able to drive is a ton of fun, and you have so much freedom. but just be prepared, gas is expensive.</p>